On 2016-04-04, Oliver Elphick <o...@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
