GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 576799
alacarte crashed with IOError when menu-files are not accesable for the user
Last modified: 2021-05-25 17:45:00 UTC
Hi! When alacarte can't have write-access to the .menu files, it just crashes with IOError. Instead, a helpful message for the user should be displayed. I'm attaching a patch. I'm sure the wording will need some lift-up, i'm not an expert on that. Could you please review and comment if this is ok? Thanks. Reported on Launchpad: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/92272
Created attachment 131401 [details] [review] Patch correcting the issue
Is there a case where alacarte cannot write to the menu file?
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