Bug#592639: alacarte: IImpossible to open Properties dialogue of any entry, or new menu, new entry.

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort]

On 11/08/10 19:18, Andreas Neudecker wrote:
> I want to use alacarte to edit menus using XFCE. The only buttons in the
> program that seem to work are Help and Close.
> 
> Running it from a terminal, when rightclicking a menu item and clicking
> Properties, I get this:
> 
> andreas at halucigenia:~$ alacarte
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/share/alacarte/Alacarte/MainWindow.py", line 383, in
> on_edit_properties_activate
>     process = subprocess.Popen(['gnome-desktop-item-edit', file_path],
> env=os.environ)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/subprocess.py", line 623, in __init__
>     errread, errwrite)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/subprocess.py", line 1139, in _execute_child
>     raise child_exception
> OSError: [Errno 2] Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
> 
> Same for New Menu and New Entry. Is there some dependency missing? I thought
> this program was a universal editor for the Freedesktop.org menu and could be
> used with XFCE, too.

Seems to need gnome-panel for that.

Regards,
Emilio