Is there a way to associate a program to a Dash filter?

[Colin Law]

On 7 May 2012 23:42, Avi Schwartz <ubuntu-users352 at cfftechnologies.com> wrote:
> Ubunt 12.04 is my first foray into Unity. I stuck to my previous Ubuntu
> version until it was no longer supported and now I am trying to tweak Unity
> into something I can live with.
>
> Thanks to Gooogle I figured out how to create a new launcher for a program
> and how to add it to the Unity Launcher (I cannot believe how much manual
> labor is need here.)
> Any way, now that I have the launcher for my program, how do I add it to one
> of the existing filters?
> For example, I created a launcher for IntelliJIDEA and now I want to add it
> to the Dash's Developer filter.
> Is there a way to do this?

I think this is controlled by the Categories entry in the desktop
file.  Try putting Development in there.  I have not tried it but
looking at some of the desktop files in /usr/share/applications
suggests this might work.

Colin