Hi, When you want to add an application in the menu with alacarte, if you put spaces in the line "Command" it's impossible to press OK. This bug seems to be fixed in other distros : https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=752671 Currently the solution is to put a false command without spaces and create the shortcut. Then edit the file in "/home/"username"/.local/share/applications/" and write the good command.
Pushed new release [1] for mga5 to core/updates_testing with a patch from upstream to fix the issue. Please test. [1] alacarte-3.11.91-4.2.mga5
Just tested. The bug is fixed.
What architecture did you test on?
Arch. x86_64
MGA5-32 on Asus A6000VM Xfce No installation issues Launching alacarte from CLU shows no particular problem. I could add an item with command "gksu caja", no problem.
Validating; but @Jani it needs an advisory please. I can invent one if your Comment 1 has the right SRC RPM version.
From what I can see both Cauldron and Mageia 6 have the same alacarte version as Mageia 5, but without the patch. So I think we might need an update candidate for Mageia 6 too before validating this one. The Mageia 5 tests stay valid though.
Fixed for cauldron and mga6 [1] also. [1] alacarte-3.11.91-7.1.mga6 in core/updates_testing
Advisory: ========= Updated alacarte package fixes parsing of commands with spaces alacarte 3.11.91 has a bug that prevent entering commands with spaces when add a new application to the menu. This update backports an upstream patch to fix it. {S,}RPMs in core/updates_testing: ================================= 5: alacarte-3.11.91-4.2.mga5 6: alacarte-3.11.91-7.1.mga6