how to use "Desktop Entry" files?

[Roland Plüss]

my nedit.desktop looks nearly the same ( only with english and german
translation and some additional tags ). still it does not show up on the
menu. i'm here on gentoo hence i don't know what the 'appfinder' is (
sounds like mac-os to me ;) )

Amir Sabbagh wrote:

> Hi, here it is my nedit.desktop. here it works without problems.
> I don't know why sometimes .desktop files doesn't work but they always
> show up in the appfinder, even when they don't in the menu.
> Amir
>
>
> On 2/8/06, *Roland Plüss* <roland at rptd.dnsalias.net
> <mailto:roland at rptd.dnsalias.net>> wrote:
>
>     i noticed that xfce uses in his system generated list ( the one with
>     'include --system--' ) .desktop files ( or Desktop Entry files ) from
>     KDE from the /usr/share/applications directoy to populate this menu. i
>     tried now to create such files myself for apps which are not yet
>     in that
>     listing but that i would like to have there ( including existing ones
>     and my own ). now i did a simply copy-modify to create an entry for
>     NEdit for example. although the entry is fine and KDE finds it
>     XFCE does
>     not ( even after restarting X and restarting the entire machine ).
>
>     can somebody give me a hint why i can not create my own .desktop files
>     in /usr/share/applications with XFCE using them? do i need to update a
>     database? or is there a special config file hidden somewhere that
>     i have
>     to mess around with?
>
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