On 2019-05-29 09:36, Colin Law wrote:
On Sat, 25 May 2019 at 19:48, Thomas Stadtmüller
<thomas.stadtmuel...@gmx.de> wrote:
Can you confirm Ubuntu 19.04 still supports .desktop files?
I have upgraded from Ubuntu 18.10 to 19.04.
Now I wonder why there isn't a huge cry out in the community about
.desktop files no longer working.
This is a Nautilus issue. .desktop files still work, but not via
double click on the Desktop or in a browser window. Apparently the
Gnome developers decided this is something we shouldn't do.
See
https://www.linuxuprising.com/2018/05/nautilus-will-no-longer-launch-binaries.html
Even it that's true, it's a bit obsolete info for Ubuntu users. The
description of the gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons package says:
"Description: desktop icon support for GNOME Shell
This package provides a GNOME Shell extension for showing the contents
of ~/Desktop on the desktop of the Shell. Common file management
operations such as launching, copy/paste, rename and deleting are
supported."
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