Launcher from *.desktop?

Andrew Robinson andrew.rw.robinson at gmail.com
Thu Nov 20 20:56:29 CET 2008


On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 12:34 PM, Jannis Pohlmann <jannis at xfce.org> wrote:
> Am Thu, 20 Nov 2008 20:26:41 +0100
> schrieb Yves-Alexis Perez <corsac at debian.org>:
>
>> On jeu, 2008-11-20 at 12:21 -0700, Andrew Robinson wrote:
>> > Is there an easy way that I am not aware of to be able to create a
>> > launcher or add a program to a launcher from a *.desktop file? I
>> > know it isn't that big of a deal, but it is a pain to manually
>> > enter in the information of a program that is in the XFCE menu
>> > (system menu) in the Program Launcher dialog.
>>
>> When you are on the interface to add a launcher, you can drag and drop
>> a .desktop file from thunar to the list on the left.
>
> Or open the appfinder and drag items from there into the launcher
> dialog.
>
>  - Jannis

Thanks you two, nice hidden feature :)



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