Ubuntu
alacarte package

Cannot delete some items

Bug #268279 reported by Christoph Korn
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Wine
Invalid
Medium
alacarte (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Low
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: alacarte

Description: Ubuntu 8.04.1
Release: 8.04

Package: alacarte
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: utils
Installed-Size: 1248
Maintainer: Travis Watkins <email address hidden>
Architecture: all
Version: 0.11.5-0ubuntu1

Some items cannot be deleted by alacarte.
They are installed by wine.

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Christoph Korn (c-korn) wrote :

This video shows that nothing happens.

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jjos (jbenjos) wrote :

I can't confirm this issue. These are programs installed by Wine, but not in the Wine menu?

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TobiasDomhan (tdomhan) wrote :

the same "problem" exists if you run alacarte as root.
the .desktop files probably are owned by root.
you might go to ".local/share/applications" an look for root:root files.(there are other places for .desktop files you might consider those too)
if you know what you are doing you might delete the right files, too.

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Christoph Korn (c-korn) wrote :

These are menu items from universal combat (http://www.worthdownloading.com/download.php?gid=490&id=13639) installed by wine.

The output of "ls -Ral .local/share/applications/" is attached.
No file is owned by root.

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Christoph Korn (c-korn) wrote :

Maybe the problem is within the .desktop files of the entries that cannot be deleted.

For example:
The entry named "Game Config Options" cannot be deleted.

So I search for the .desktop files of that entry.

The output is attached.

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Christoph Korn (c-korn) wrote :

The file:
./wine-Programme-3000AD-Universal Combat-Docs-Game Config Options.desktop.undo-1

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Christoph Korn (c-korn) wrote :

The file:
./wine-Programme-3000AD-Universal Combat-Docs-Game Config Options.desktop.undo-0

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Christoph Korn (c-korn) wrote :

The file:
./wine/Programme/3000AD/Universal Combat/Docs/Game Config Options.desktop

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Christoph Korn (c-korn) wrote :

The file:
./wine-Programme-3000AD-Universal Combat-Docs-Game Config Options.desktop

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Christoph Korn (c-korn) wrote :

So as you can see the only file that differs is the one in the subdir wine/.

It misses the Hidden=true attribute.

Maybe that helps you find the problem.

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In , Christoph Korn (c-korn) wrote :

My OS is Ubuntu 8.04.

I cannot delete some gnome menu entries which were created by wine.

I already opened a bug report for alacarte (the menu editor of gnome).
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/alacarte/+bug/268279

But I thought it could also be a wine bug because other menu entries can be deleted.

(In my case deletion of the universal combat [URL: http://www.worthdownloading.com/download.php?gid=490&id=13639] menu entries fails.)

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In , Vitaliy-bugzilla (vitaliy-bugzilla) wrote :

Either not Wine bug, or duplicate of bug 10277.

Closing invalid. If you can't remove entries with outside menu editor - that's the bug with that editor not Wine.

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In , Vitaliy-bugzilla (vitaliy-bugzilla) wrote :

Closing invalid.

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Christoph Korn (c-korn) wrote :

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15276

Wine devels also think this is a bug of the editor.

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in wine:
status: Unknown → Invalid
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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue for you? Thanks in advance.

Changed in alacarte:
status: New → Incomplete
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Christoph Korn (c-korn) wrote :

Still exists.
But I can live with it.

Changed in alacarte:
status: Incomplete → Invalid
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Alex Mauer (hawke) wrote :

Still a problem for me in Karmic

Changed in alacarte (Ubuntu):
status: Invalid → New
status: New → Confirmed
Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)
Changed in alacarte (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
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In , Jack Leigh (leighman) wrote :

Don't think this is invalid. It only seems to be wine entries which cannot be correctly removed.
More precisely it seems to be only icons for programs in /.wine. Icons for icons in other WINEPREFIXs work fine.

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Alan Howell (alan-howell2) wrote :

I suffered the same problem with Karmic Koala. I had tried unsuccessfully to install Pinnacle Studio 9 with Wine. I then wanted to clean up so finding that I couldn't clear the menu items with Alacarte I uninstalled the Wine software and deleted the .wine directory in /home/user/. I still couldn't delete those menus.
I finally managed to remove the un-deletable menu entries which were now in the "Other" menu group by going to /home/user/.local/share/applications and moving all the unwanted entries to a new folder (including the Wine folder) and then moved it to a different location, In my case the desktop. I only moved the files as a precaution, they can probably just be deleted.
I hope this is of use.

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Hendrik Schrieber (hennekn) wrote :

This is still a problem in lucid. Workaround is deleting or moving .desktop-files from /home/user/.local/share/applications/wine as described by Alan. For some reason alacarte does not delete these files.

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Fred (eldmannen+launchpad) wrote :

Still an issue in Maverick.

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in wine:
importance: Unknown → Medium
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Sergio Benjamim (sergio-br2) wrote :

Still a problem in Ubuntu 12.04...

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