** Changed in: gnome-shell (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Triaged
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1586839
Title:
GNOME dock should allow users to pin applications which don't have a
.desktop file
Status in GNOME Shell:
Confirmed
Status in Ubuntu GNOME:
New
Status in gnome-shell package in Ubuntu:
Triaged
Bug description:
In Unity the "Launcher" can have any application pinned to it even if
said application does not have a .desktop file, I assume that if it
detects an application does not have one it just creates one for it in
its own area for itself (the Launcher) to use. The GNOME dock however
does not have such functionality, and though I understand that it's
very simple, to pin an application to the dock all you have to do is
make sure that that application (as with most dock applications) has a
.desktop file, and if it does not then you have to make one for it.
However most end-users will probably not know anything about .desktop
files and even if they do, may not want to create one for every
program which doesn't have them, and a lot of program especially ones
compiled by the user from source don't have .desktop files with them,
or even ones from sh installers from the internet that don't come from
the repositories often don't have .desktop files.
So I think that the GNOME dock (in the Activities Overview) would
greatly benefit from such functionality.
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