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[Dave <davidwweinberg@xxxxxxx>]

*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1241972 ***
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1241972

Solution for adding icons to Applications:
Navigate in your file manager(whatever one you use) to Computer/usr/share/applications  folder.
Right click on theapplication you want added 
Select "Copy to..."
Click on "Desktop"folder onleft side of panel
Click Select button.

Done.
more complicated than drag and drop from the launcher, but fully effective.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1309277

Title:
  unable to add desktop icons to unity desktop 14.04

Status in “nautilus” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  When I try to add an icon to my unity desktop in Ubuntu 14.04  it says

   Error while copying

  There was an error getting information about "/"

  Show more details

  The specified location is not supported

  This happened to me in 13.10 too.

  Description:	Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
  Release:	14.04

  unity:
    Installed: 7.2.0+14.04.20140416-0ubuntu1
    Candidate: 7.2.0+14.04.20140416-0ubuntu1
    Version table:
   *** 7.2.0+14.04.20140416-0ubuntu1 0
          500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
  Package: unity 7.2.0+14.04.20140416-0ubuntu1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-24.46-generic 3.13.9
  Uname: Linux 3.13.0-24-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3
  Architecture: amd64
  CompizPlugins: No value set for `/apps/compiz-1/general/screen0/options/active_plugins'
  CurrentDesktop: Unity
  Date: Thu Apr 17 19:48:45 2014
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-04-18 (0 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140417)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_US
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: unity
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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