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[Jeremy Bicha <jbicha@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 7 April 2012 07:27, Jo-Erlend Schinstad <joerlend.schinstad@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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.

Did you run sudo update-desktop-database?

Jeremy