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[Ryan Gauger <rtgkid@xxxxxxxxx>]

I tend to think it is logical for dash to search through the applications folder. I Why is it searching through .desktop files? It is not very logical at all the way Unity is set up. I think dash should search through the applications folder instead. It would make much more sense, especially to me. Thanks!

---Ryan

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On Apr 7, 2012, at 6:27 AM, 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. 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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