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Whisker menu doesn't always take into account "Edit Application..."
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RESOLVED: WONTFIX
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Xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin
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Description Naga44 2018-08-08 08:41:21 CEST
Created attachment 7872 
Whisker menu doesn't always take into account "Edit Application..."

Hi, thanks for the amazing job !

With a right click on an application in the whisker-menu (xfce 4-12), you can "Edit Application...".

Although it mostly works, it is not always the case (As you can see on the screenshoot I joined).

I tested on a brand new version (Xubuntu 18.04, 64 bits), and elements such as the game "Mines" don't take the changes from "Edit Application..." into account (to translate it in French as it was in English).

I noticed that it is the same for Simple Scan. And also for "Eye of Gnome" and "Inkscape", I installed later. But not for everything...

No idea where it comes from, but with Menu Editor (Alacarte), we can "Edit Application..." and it finally works.

Description: Xubuntu 18.04.1 LTS
Release: 18.04
xfce 4-12
Comment 1 Graeme Gott editbugs 2018-08-09 11:24:52 CEST
Whisker Menu doesn't do the actual editing. It just calls "exo-desktop-item-edit" with the URI of the launcher. This sounds like it might be a bug in exo (if the changes aren't happening) or garcon (if the changes aren't being picked up). Sorry, but there really isn't much I can do about this bug.

You could try running the panel in debug mode by opening a terminal and running the following commands:

xfce4-panel -q
PANEL_DEBUG=1 xfce4-panel

Then edit a launcher and see if any output from exo-desktop-item-edit is printed to the terminal.
Comment 2 Naga44 2018-08-09 20:04:37 CEST
Thank you for replying and giving me advices on where to look !
Have a nice day !

Bug #14589

Reported by:
Naga44
Reported on: 2018-08-08
Last modified on: 2018-08-09

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