Possibility to add "Create Launcher" to right click context-menu in Nautilus

[Kieran Grant]

On 06/12/12 08:15, Rodney Dawes wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-12-06 at 07:10 +1000, Kieran Grant wrote:
>> Hey All,
>>
>> I am currently using Ubuntu 12.04.1, so I don't know if this is
>> something that was worked on in Ubuntu 12.10 or is in the planning stage
>> for Ubuntu 13.04, but I am wondering if it's possible for something to
>> be done about the lack of ability to right click on the desktop (or any
>> folder in nautilus) and create a new launcher, this is only a usability
>> problem.
> You say this is a usability problem, but what evidence of that is there?
> It used to exist, sure, but it doesn't mean that it needs to be there,
> or that people need to be able to create launchers in random locations
> on their file system. Why would anyone need to do this? Complaints about
> usability or such really need to be backed up by objective data that can
> show how having something will be better for a majority of users, and
> how the feature would have an impact on all users.
Good point, I know there have been many tutorials about how to do
something like this, with one method mentioned is to have a script for
the Desktop right-click context menu, I cannot backup in numbers how
many people have raised this, but I know there are various tutorials and
discussions, but by now most people are probably used to living without
this.

Maybe instead of all over their file system (which I agree, is a bit
pointless now that I think about it), just on the Desktop, but without
being able to get some numbers, I agree, in hindsight, that one cannot
objectively determine how many users have wanted this.

As for the affect on all users, maybe it's better that users can't
easily create launchers on their desktop (Just look at common Windows 7
Desktops, full of icons barely used, at least from the ones I have seen).

Whether it is better to allow users to add icons to their Desktop (where
they'll probably not use it) or not, is something that Canonical and the
upstream GNOME guys can ponder.
>
>> I know about gnome-desktop-item-edit /home/<user>/Desktop --create-new,
>> but that isn't user friendly, I know I use to be able to do this in
>> older versions of Ubuntu (back when GNOME was in use, at least I thought
>> I could...), but for some reason this has been removed.
>
> This was removed from upstream Nautilus, as they started to pare down
> the feature set there.
I guess I'll just switch to another Desktop Environment for what I need,
(besides, on my netbook Unity 3D uses too many resources, only have 2GB
RAM and Some Intel SU2700 1.3Ghz processor, 'tis a cheap netbook from a
couple of years ago, I might go back to GNOME classic, or something
else, who knows)

Thanks Rodney for you response. :)