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[Omar B. <estelar57@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I agree. It's better solution and looks better than always having to open a terminal.

sadly the way to do it now is this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfTfc-DLtpU


> Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2012 14:36:30 +0000
> From: alanbell@xxxxxxxxxx
> To: unity-design@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [Unity-design] creating .desktop files to add launcher entries
> 
> 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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