Default Launchers for Natty Narwhal

Charlie Kravetz cjk at teamcharliesangels.com
Wed Jan 19 14:05:07 UTC 2011


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On Wed, 19 Jan 2011 10:54:02 +0200
Jari Rahkonen <jari.rahkonen at pp1.inet.fi> wrote:

> 19.01.2011 01:26, Pasi Lallinaho wrote:
> > On 01/19/2011 01:18 AM, Charlie Kravetz wrote:
> >>
> >> Natty only:
> >> Think simplified now. To add a launcher to the desktop, drag it from
> >> the menu and name it. To add a launcher to the panel,
> >> open /usr/share/applications in Thunar, right-click the menu item you
> >> want on the panel, left-click "Open with...", left-click create
> >> launcher on panel.
> >>
> > To be honest, I still think a lot of people need help with "Open
> > /usr/share/applications" and finding the correct application...
> 
> Does dragging from xfce4-appfinder work? Should be more intuitive, and 
> the Application Finder can be found in the menu. Plus this should work 
> for adding launchers to both the desktop and the panel. Doesn't work 
> with the 4.6 panel and I can't test this with 4.8 right now but I 
> remember someone writing about this on xfce4-dev.
> 
> - Jari
> 

Dragging from Application Finder does create the launcher on the panel,
but not on the desktop.

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Charlie Kravetz 
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