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[Alan Bell <alanbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

One common request is to add arbitary applications to the launcher. This 
is *hard* right now, you have to manually write a .desktop file (by 
looking up the syntax on gnome.org or freedesktop.org) and then put it 
somewhere that is a system area or a hidden folder. Most users don't 
bother because it is too hard and continue to launch things like 
minecraft from the terminal.

I would like to be able to right click an empty bit of the launcher or 
the BFB and have a quicklist option to add a launcher. This would pop up 
a small dialog asking for

Name
Comment
Command to run
Icon
Terminal

and have buttons for:

save for one user in ~/.local/share/applications
save for all users in /usr/share/applications
add to Unity Launcher.

Some means of editing existing .desktop files would also be good

thoughts and comments please . . .

Alan


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