Why can't I Edit desktop file from Nautilus?

[Jeff G.]

On 07/28/2011 04:24 PM, NoOp wrote:

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> One thing that's always puzzled me is that Nautilus doesn't even display
> some files - example:
>
> $ ls -al/home/gg/.local/share/applications
> total 696
> drwxr-xr-x  3 gg   gg   12288 2011-07-28 13:10 .
> drwx------ 30 gg   gg    4096 2011-07-17 12:07 ..
> -rw-r--r--  1 gg   gg     405 2010-05-19 21:19 AdobeReader.desktop
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 gg   gg     460 2011-05-23 20:07 alacarte-made-10.desktop
>
> the alacarte-made-10.desktop file isn't displayed in Nautilus.

as an academic exercise, I just looked at a file, thunderbird, in gedit 
but in the opened file tab, it shows the filename as 
alacarte-made-1.desktop.

looked at in terminal, the thunderbird file doesn't show, the 
alacarte-made-1.desktop shows.

must be a nautilus thing...