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[Colin Law <clanlaw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 7 April 2012 12:03, Pedro Bessa <pedbessa@xxxxxxxxx> 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


>
> Best regards,
> Pedro Bessa
>
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