Call for Testing - MenuLibre

[Brian Slease]

Did the stuff you asked for, all is fine here so far, will report any 
'bugs' if and when necessary.

Brian/starrats
On 05/13/2014 08:04 AM, Sean Davis wrote:
> Greetings everyone!
>
> I've been working diligently these past few weeks to fix all of the 
> bugs that popped up in MenuLibre after Trusty was released.  I've been 
> testing my fixes out in a few virtual machines and I think the program 
> is release-ready now.  I'm reaching out to all of you for a bit of 
> variety in the tests.  So, if you'd like to help out, here's what I 
> would like you to do.
>
> Just to avoid any variation with other libraries, please perform this 
> test on an up-to-date trusty (14.04) installation.
>
> First, backup your files.  If you don't do this, you will lose your 
> custom launchers and any launchers installed locally.
> You'll want to make a backup of the following directories to preserve 
> your current menu layout:
> ~/.config/menus
> ~/.local/share/applications
> ~/.local/share/desktop-directories
>
> Second, remove your current menu structure.  There were some issues in 
> the previous release that led to corrupt menus... we want to clean 
> that up.
> rm ~/.config/menus/xfce-applications.menu
> rm ~/.config/menus/applications-merged/user*.menu
> rm ~/.local/share/desktop-directories/*.directory
> rm ~/.local/share/applications/*.desktop
>
> Next, install the latest MenuLibre daily from the PPA:
> sudo add-apt-repository ppa:menulibre-dev/daily
> sudo apt-get update
> sudo apt-get install menulibre
>
> Finally, start menulibre and get to editing.
> menulibre
>
> Here's the changelog for this release.  If you want to verify the 
> fixes and new functionality, that'd be great.  Otherwise, let me know 
> if there are any quirks.
> - General:
>   . Strikethrough is now used to make separators look better
>   . Window is now properly centered at startup
>   . Fixed all instances of
>    Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_tree_model_get_iter: assertion 'path->depth > 
> 0' failed
>   . Updated translations
> - Bug Fixes:
>   . Enable X-Xfce-Toplevel at any time when using Xfce (LP: #1309468)
>   . Install menulibre icon to pixmaps directory (LP: #1307469)
>   . Do not save menu layout when in search mode (LP: #1306999)
>   . Restore expanded/collapsed menus after finished searching (LP: 
> #1307000)
>   . Properly support spaces in the Exec line (LP: #1214815)
>   . Conflicted directory label for xfce-settings.directory (LP: #1313276)
>   . preprocess_layout_info: assertion failed (LP: #1307729)
>   . Moving launchers to another category do not save immediately (LP: 
> #1313586)
>   . Enable saving a launcher any time a field is modified (LP: #1315878)
>   . New launchers are replaced with existing ones when removed (LP: 
> #1315890)
>   . Launchers in new directory have X-Xfce-Toplevel category (LP: 
> #1315874)
>   . Add launchers to empty categories (LP: #1318209)
>   . Implement xdg-desktop-menu uninstall to prevent leftover items
>    (LP: #1318235)
>   . menulibre save changes confirmation dialog is handled wrong (LP: 
> #1307481)
>
> Thanks for all the help and bug reports!
> Sean (bluesabre)
>
>

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