If you create a launcher in the normal way (right-click on desktop, choose create launcher from popup menu) and drop it in the hidden directory .local/share/applications then gnome-shell will pick it up both in search and in the More-Menu where you can drag it to Favourites.
To view hidden files and folders in nautilus either press Crtl-H or tick the box in the View menu 2009/12/14 Vasanth Kumar <[email protected]>: > Hi Jon, > > The current Launcher helps create Shortcut to access manually installed > programs for those applications where there are no automatic entry being > added in Application Menu Item. For example Thunderbird 3 is not available > in Ubuntu's repo, but i need to use it and hence i install the same manually > in /opt/thunderbird folder. In the existing system there are no automatic > menu entry created for these type of installations. Menu entries to launch > these applications are created manually thru Launcher. With the changes in > Gnome3 menu, i was wondering if there is a way to add Menu entry for > manually installed application. > > > Regards, > Vasanth Kumar > > > On Monday 14 December 2009 09:36 AM, William Jon McCann wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 9:59 AM, Vasanth Kumar<[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >>> Does gnome-shell supports custom application launcher? If so, would the >>> custom application launcher be integrated in the Applications menu / >>> search >>> function. >>> >> >> Can you explain a bit more about what you mean? Also, it would help >> if you describe the problem you are actually trying to solve. That >> way we can see if custom application launchers are even the best >> solution for it. >> >> Thanks, >> Jon >> > > _______________________________________________ > gnome-shell-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list > _______________________________________________ gnome-shell-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list
