On 7 April 2012 13:28, Jeremy Bicha <jbi...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > 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?
I was not saying that I have a problem, just asking what it /should/ do before I do some testing. Thanks for pointing out that command however. Is the cache built by that command used by the Dash to show installed apps? Colin -- 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
