[Virtual-pkg-base-maintainers] Bug#514784: base: Menu editing not working

[Prateek Mullick]

Package: base
Severity: normal



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

The menu editing feature works partially. A custom application 
cannot be added to the menu. Possibly it is broken. I have personally 
tried it with KMenu Editor on KDE 3.5.10 as well as with 
Alacarte menu editor in LXDE. When I invoked the Alacarte from the 
command-line, the following message was given on the terminal emulator:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/Alacarte/MainWindow.py", line 
309, in on_new_item_button_clicked
    process = subprocess.Popen(['gnome-desktop-item-edit', file_path], 
env=os.environ)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/subprocess.py", line 594, in __init__
    errread, errwrite)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/subprocess.py", line 1149, in _execute_child
    raise child_exception
OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory

Unfortunately, I personally am a novice, and this is my first 
bug-report. So, if there are some mistakes, please excuse me.