Re: Creating launcher in Gnome 3
On Mon, 2016-04-04 at 17:19 +0200, Sven Arvidsson wrote:
> On Mon, 2016-04-04 at 13:27 +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote:
> >
> > I'm trying to create a launcher. Following the explanation in
> > https://specifications.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/latest/in
> > de
> > x.
> > html
> >
> > I created the following file in ~/.local/share/applications
> >
...
> > However, this is ignored. It appears from the xdg reference that
> > the
> > directory (and its subdirectories too?) should be read
> > automatically,
> > but my entry still does not appear in the menu.
> >
> > So what is missing, please?
> Works fine here if I replace the Exec path to something like /bin/ls
> so
> it might be that the path is wrong or estudio is not executable?
In fact it does recognise the items. I used alacarte as the other
response suggested, and it created almost identical items inthe same
place that I had put them. But Gnome ignores the Categories attribute
(and alacarte also ignored it) and put them in "Other".
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