On 11/14/2010 12:15 PM, Owen Taylor wrote: > > Anything installing an application on the system (whether it's part of > Fedora or not) really should be installing a desktop file. If there's no > desktop file, there's no way for the user to launch the application. > > In GNOME 3, no desktop file also means that it won't behave properly as > an application.... it won't get the right name and icon in the top > panel, etc. > > Once there is a desktop file, then, yes you would add it to favorites. > Favorite are very close in function to a launcher on the panel - you can > get to them with a single mouse-click using the "hot corner" activation > of the Activities Overview. > > (If Mathematica has a desktop file and it's just not being picked up by > GNOME 3, then creating a symlink into ~/.local/share/applications will > work.) > > Is there going to be a GUI to create a desktop file for a something that > doesn't have a desktop file? (Something like the "Add custom launcher" > dialog for gnome-panel currently.) It's not in our plans currently, and > I'm not really sure where it would neatly fit into the user interface. > > One possibility is the one you mentioned - if someone starts an > application that we don't recognize and tries to make it a favorite, we > prompt them for the missing information and create a desktop file in > ~/.local/share/applications. But really, it's something that ISVs have > to get right and anything else is a workaround. > I have a lot of non-fedora applications I added via the 'custom launcher' tool - it would be really nice to be able to do this - whether its mathematica or sometimes its upstream versions of apps (I use test versions of thunderbird for example) as well as a bunch of other apps. Certainly be nice if gnome 3 made it as easy as it is in gnome 2 ... thanks for your thoughts. gene -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
