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".
