How are programs executed in Ubuntu?

[Colin Law]

On 30 January 2016 at 15:01, Jim Byrnes <jf_byrnes at comcast.net> wrote:
> ...
> Some more good advice, thanks.
> I am the only user so users is not a consideration. When I first started
> working on this I put it in .local/share/applications, but because of the
> mistakes I mentioned above it did not work. When I used the utility, it put
> it in /usr/share/applications.
>
> When I get some time I will move it to .local/share/applications.

Earlier you said you put it in /local/share/applications (which is not
.local/share/applications), when you said you then put it in the
proper place I assumed that error was what you were talking about.

Colin