On 7 April 2012 07:27, Jo-Erlend Schinstad <joerlend.schins...@gmail.com> wrote: > Den 07. april 2012 13:12, skrev Colin Law: > >> On 7 April 2012 12:03, Pedro Bessa<pedbe...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> On 07-04-2012 06:02, Colin Law wrote: >>>> >>>> Does the Home Lens use the presence of .desktop files to show >>>> applications? If so which folders does it search? I notice that it >>>> does not find .desktop files on the Desktop. Should it? >>>> >>>> Colin >>>> >>> As far as I know: yes, /usr/share/applications, no. The .desktop file >>> will >>> have to be written like an existing .desktop file, owned by root:root, >>> readable and writable by the owner, readable by the group, readable by >>> others and not executable. >> >> Should it not also at least look in ~/.local/share/applications? >> Arguably also in ~/Desktop. >> >> Colin > > > It does search applications in ~/.local/share/applications.
Did you run sudo update-desktop-database? Jeremy -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~unity-design Post to : unity-design@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~unity-design More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
