Why should an application that isn't provided by Ubuntu, or even in the repositories, be required to create a .desktop file?
Grant On May 1, 2012 2:29 PM, "Colin Law" <[email protected]> wrote: > On 1 May 2012 14:12, Alan Lord (News) <[email protected]> wrote: > > I've only been using 12.04 for 2 days and am already getting annoyed with > > it. > > > > I use some applications which are not packaged. > > > > For example, Talend. It is an Eclipse based ETL application. > > > > I can run it from the command line, that's OK. But because of the stupid, > > pea-brained Unity interface, if you accidentally minimise an application > > which doesn't have a launcher icon then you can't get it back. Or at > least I > > haven't found a way to yet. > > > > Anyone got any workarounds/suggestions for this scenario? > > If you open the dash and search for the app does it find it? If so > then run it that way, and you can pin it to the launcher if you want > to. > > If not then create a .desktop file to launch it with, then that will > appear in the launcher. In that case arguably it is the app that is > pea-brained for not coming with a .desktop file to launch it. Or > perhaps there is one but you have not found it. > > Colin > > -- > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ >
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