Re: Creating launcher in Gnome 3
On 2016-04-04, Oliver Elphick <olly@lfix.co.uk> wrote:
> 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".
Try "Development" instead of "Programming".
--
Liam
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