You're right, Norman. I somehow mixed things up and replaced "Icon" with
"Exec" by accident... Problem solved. thanks a lot!


2014-03-31 11:08 GMT-03:00 Norman L. Smith <nls1...@gmail.com>:

> Hello:
>
> Exec=groupwise
> Exec=gwclient.png
>
> Exec=nmclient
> Exec=nmclient.png
>
>
> I believe the second Exec='s  should be Icon= .
>
> Also the icon path should be fully qualified and the executable must be
> in the user's PATH or fully qualified.  I stopped looking at your
> attachments when I looked at the .desktop files.
>
> See:
> https://developer.gnome.org/desktop-entry-spec/
>
> If you have a functional .desktop just dropping it
> into /usr/share/applications works for me.
>
> Hope this is useful.
>
> Norman
>
>
> On Mon, 2014-03-31 at 09:40 -0300, Rafael Ferreira wrote:
> > Hi there,
> >
> >
> > I'm packaging Novell Groupwise and Messeger for archlinux and I'm
> > trying to make their desktop file searchable in Activities Overview,
> > without success.
> >
> >
> > The installation directory is '/usr/share/applications', the packaging
> > instructions can be found in [1] [2] and their desktop file can be
> > found in [3] [4] (as well in the source tarball mentioned in [1] and
> > [2]).
> >
> >
> > Can someone please help me make these files searchable?
> >
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Rafael Ferreira
> >
> >
> > [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gwclient/
> > [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/nmclient/
> > [3] http://pastie.org/8982443
> > [4] http://pastie.org/8982445
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