Orange-ball menu entries install bug

Alfons reported this. The Network menu category has an "orange-ball" menu entry for AnyDesk. He installed AnyDesk, and the menu entry changed accordingly, with the icon for the app. OK, except after reboot the menu entry had disappeared. This happens to all the orange-ball menu entries.

The AnyDesk menu entry and the concept of orange-ball menu entries is explained here:

• AnyDesk orange-ball menu entry — December 12, 2024

I found the cause of the problem; it is at line 167 in script /usr/local/orange/orange.install:

sed -i -e "s%^Exec=.*%^Exec=${EN}%"  ${DT}

...remove the second "^"

What that bug does, is causes this in /usr/share/applications/anydesk.desktop:

^Exec=anydesk

...which is invalid and will cause anydesk.desktop to get deleted at next bootup.   

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