LP#1707548 "I have a Wine menu"

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Reported first on Launchpad at https://bugs.launchpad.net/menulibre/+bug/1707548

LP#0: Ken Koch (2l82day) wrote on 2017-07-31:

And there are like over 50 items of the same item, but the menu itself only shows one item, plus there are items in the wrong place, like System items like Synaptic VirtualBox in the Accessories Folder. I run 18.2 xfce, with menulibre 2.1.3

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LP#1: Ken Koch (2l82day) wrote on 2017-07-31:

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• Shows what the menu looks like

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LP#2: Ken Koch (2l82day) wrote on 2017-08-03:

here is what menulibre shows

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• the jpg shows all

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LP#3: Ken Koch (2l82day) wrote on 2017-08-03:

I took some more pictures if it helps

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• what the menu says 2

[ernstki]

So I'm not totally sure what I'm seeing is related to what the Launchpad issue is trying to describe, but it tracks with "wine" and "duplicate entries," anyway.

Recent MenuLibre (2.2.1 from Ubuntu 20.04, and 2.3.0 from the repo) will create a duplicate, but identical desktop entry for, say

~/.local/share/applications/wine/Programs/PuTTY/PuTTY.desktop

at

~/.local/share/applications/PuTTY.desktop

after editing the launcher.

This causes a duplicate to show up in the system menus, but MenuLibre only displays and edits the one in the wine/Programs subdirectory. Future edits do update both launchers, so it's not a serious problem, just causes some confusion is all.

Separately (#142), editing those Wine-created desktop entries in MenuLibre adds an extra layer of backslashes, which stops them from working. I only mention it here because it's wrapped up in the Wine-related desktop entry problems I've been seeing lately, and may help somebody else to know it's another thing that could go wrong.