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[Jo-Erlend Schinstad <joerlend.schinstad@xxxxxxxxx>]

Den 07. april 2012 13:12, skrev Colin Law:
> 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

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.

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Jo-Erlend Schinstad