mintMenu doesn't show new program name after editing it

[bartszu]

Well I guess Lefebvre`s "Need to Update" principle just went to bin.
Sorry by 19.3 is a mayor step backward, really big one.
I never thought it will come to this stage, of switching distro.
This update of Advanced Mint Mate Menu ( AMMM ) is pure, totally unnecessary disaster,

Condition to reproduce:
Freshly installed Linux Mint 19.3 Tricia 32-bit Mate

Error or New Feature:

Advanced Mint Mate Menu is ignoring some updates of comments and names, done from Edit Properties:

As you see on .jpg I am able of changing comments for Xed or Terminal or Libreoffice, but,
unfortunately launchers for Celluoid and SMplayer are unmutable !!!

Changing appropriate *.destop in /usr/share/app-install/desktop doesn't help either ;((
This is real destruction of great software.

[bartszu]

Way ??? Way ?? Way ???
Those commands are ignored !!
How come you want to have Linux launcher unable to lunch one line commands ????

[bartszu]

Really please until you fix it, bring 5.9.0 to apt, please.

[xenopeek]

This appears to be reproducible. To test this I also added Main Menu applet to my panel.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Right-click Celluloid (or any other) in the menu and select Edit properties
2. Change the name; I added "EDIT" to change it to "Celluloid EDIT"
3. Close the properties editor.

Expectation: Celluloid shows as "Celluloid EDIT" in the menu
Result: it still shows as "Celluloid"

Reloading plugins or logging out and back in doesn't change that.

However:

• right-clicking it in the menu and selecting Edit properties does show name as "Celluloid EDIT" there
• and in Main Menu it also shows as "Celluloid EDIT"

Taking a look at the file ~/.local/share/applications/io.github.celluloid_player.Celluloid.desktop that Mozo created, I expected it to have updated the Name=Celluloid record but it instead added a Name[C]=Celluloid EDIT record. Mozo also does this when I run it standalone. Apparently Main Menu applet gives priority to C locale strings while mintMenu ignores them?

After manually editing the ~/.local/share/applications/io.github.celluloid_player.Celluloid.desktop file to change the Name=Celluloid record to Name=Celluloid EDIT it shows as expected in the menu.

Just making a final note: you wrote you edited a file in /usr/share/app-install/desktop; you'd have to edit them in /usr/share/applications to affect the menu. Or as Mozo does, copy them to ~/.local/share/applications and edit them there.

[bartszu]

Just making a final note: you wrote you edited a file in /usr/share/app-install/desktop; you'd have to edit them in /usr/share/applications to affect the menu. Or as Mozo does, copy them to ~/.local/share/applications and edit them there.

Thanks Xeno, I will do that ;)

[bartszu]

Well yes this Desktop defo I mean .desktop of Celluloiud, acts strangely some times.
This is how mine Apps in mate-volume-control looks like with it on.

[bartszu]

I edited it only in ~/.local/share/applications
So it looks all fine in MateMenu and Desktop.