Description of problem: Alacarte disables OK key when there is an argument to a command Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 3.11.91-2.fc21 How reproducible: Any desktop icon which has an argument appears to now have the OK key disabled Steps to Reproduce: 1. open alacarte and create a new item 2. put test in the "Name:" field 3. put bash into the "Command:" field 4. OK button will now enable (darken) 5. put a space after bash (ready to have an argument) and the OK button is disabled (lighter). Actual results: Cannot edit/create commands with arguments Expected results: Should be allowed (used to be allowed) Additional info:
I would think this is a simple fix and so would have thought after a month it would be corrected.
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I have updated to Fedora 22 and the bug remains I then updated to Fedora 23 and it is still there. This bug should in fact a trivial fix since the OK key simply needs to be allowed to be active even though the procedure has arguments. It used to work like this before.
Any chance this bug will get fixed as it should be a very simple matter to fix it and restore it to the working version that existed before. 6 months I think is long enough. dnf list alacarte alacarte.noarch 3.11.91-3.fc23 @fedora
Any chance this bug will get fixed as it should be a very simple matter to fix it and restore it to the working version that existed before. 6 months I think is long enough. dnf list alacarte alacarte.noarch 3.11.91-4.fc24 @@commandline It does not look like a new version (only new build) for Fedora 24
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The problem still exists in FC24 as reported above.
The problem is still here in FC25. Can this please be fixed as it really is a simple fix and it is just WRONG. dnf list alacarte alacarte.noarch 3.11.91-5.fc25 @@commandline I assume the reason nothing has been done is this is still the same version as it was with fc21 when I first noticed this error over 2 years ago.
Hello Luigi, It seems that the package maintainer (Jasper) does not work in Fedora anymore [1]. Following the comments in [1], it also seems that GNOME 3 does not use this package, so, unless someone still needs it, it may be retired from Fedora (I have no idea on this one). If you are a Fedora packager, you can start the process for unresponsive maintainers [2] and take the package for yourself. Else, you can either become a packager to maintain it, find someone to maintain it or let it go. Note that it's been a while since the last time a new version was released for this package. [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1324097#c2 [2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Policy_for_nonresponsive_package_maintainers
menulibre is available as standard (but not enabled) and it works fine. If you still wish to use alacarte you can create/alter the entry but make sure you have not optional arguments to the your exec command. You can then just go into ~/.local/share/applications/ or /usr/share/applications and alter the .desktop file that has been made (or changed) and add it the argument.