[kubuntu-users] katapult doesn't find half of my apps

[Sebastian Kügler]

Hi Jonathan,

On Friday 21 October 2005 19:34, Jonathan Riddell wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 01:17:23AM +0200, Sebastian K??gler wrote:
> > katapult looks pretty slick, but it doesn't recognize a lot of my apps,
> > let alone aliases for apps.
> > It seems that if there's not .desktop file for an application, it won't
> > recognize it, and I can't even start it if I type the whole command and
> > press enter. (Try simply "xterm" for example.)
> >
> > If it can't find something, couldn't it just dump the command into a
> > shell and try?
>
> Yes, it uses the XDG menu for find applications.  That makes it much
> more user friendly in my opinion.  Dropping back to command line would
> be one possibility but if its a command line problem you may as well
> just run it from a command line, GUI programs should have XDG menu
> entries I'd say.

Yeah, but the reality is that not every GUI program has a XDG entry yet (try 
xterm in kubuntu, for example).
-- 
sebas

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