[xubuntu-users] MenuLibre 2.0.6 Inconsistency

[Patrice ARNAL]

Your problem is more general : almost all application create an hidden 
configuration directory (.mozilla, .openoffice, .shotwell, .local...)
And as these directories are user-oriented, they are not registered at 
the system level and hence never removed on de-installation.

In order to avoid this, I use the following trick :

 1. /home directory on a distinct partition (not /)
 2. Each new release is re-installed from scratch (no update), without
    modifying /home
 3. Just before launching the install, I rename my home directory to
    /home/toto.old
 4. After reinstalling, with user toto, I get an "empty" directory
    /home/toto
 5. I move all my documents from toto.old to toto and I check the
    applications needed to open my documents.
 6. By this way, all the settings in .local, .mozilla, .etc are reset to
    default value
 7. By checking the differences between the toto/.local and
    toto.old/.local (and other hidden directories) I can keep only what
    I really use and need.
    By the way, this can avoid problems if some applications are updated
    and the preferences/configuration files modified.

Hope it helps


Le 04/07/2015 16:27, John Deakin a écrit :
> Petter,
>
> Thanks a lot. I will be checking those folders out in future.
>
> regards,
> John
>
> On 04/07/15 14:57, Petter Adsen wrote:
>> On Sat, 04 Jul 2015 14:42:21 +0100 John Deakin
>> <john at humanaspects.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>>> Petter,
>>>
>>> Thank you very much. There was so much junk there I have just
>>> spent a profitable half hour cleaning it all up. How do these
>>> dead items accumulate?
>> When you install a (GUI) application, it commonly places a
>> .desktop file in /usr/share/applications. If you edit the menu
>> entries, for instance with menulibre or alacarte, it saves the
>> edited copies in ~/.local/share/applications, and those then
>> override the system entries.
>>
>> (If you want to add something to the menus, you can create custom
>> .desktop files with any text editor for whatever you need and put
>> them in the latter directory.)
>>
>> Let's say you install an application that adds a .desktop file
>> under /usr and then edit that entry. If you later remove the
>> package, the .desktop file under your home directory will still be
>> there, as it was never registered in the package database. That
>> would be my guess as to why you have dead entries. The menus are
>> created on the fly, but I don't think they actually check that the
>> executables they are supposed to launch exist any more. This is a
>> guess, though, I can't say for sure this is what happens.
>>
>> Petter
>>
>>
>>

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