I tend to think it is logical for dash to search through the applications folder. I Why is it searching through .desktop files? It is not very logical at all the way Unity is set up. I think dash should search through the applications folder instead. It would make much more sense, especially to me. Thanks!
---Ryan PS - I am praying for everybody. I hope life is going well :) Sent from my iPod On Apr 7, 2012, at 6:27 AM, 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. I don't, however, > think it should search ~/Desktop. We should encourage the use of well-known > locations for such things. Everything becomes much more difficult when you > can't rely on locations. Homeless dotfiles too, annoys me to no end. > > -- > Jo-Erlend Schinstad > > > -- > 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 -- 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