Well, I've tried GNOME 3 now...

Sat Apr 23 02:45:56 UTC 2011

On Fri, 2011-04-22 at 11:57 -0400, Genes MailLists wrote:
> On 04/22/2011 11:37 AM, Angel wrote:
> 
> > 
> > A .desktop file needs to be placed in /usr/share/Applications or 
> > ~/.local/share/applications/.
> > 
> 
> 
>  Great - Aunt Tillie can learn to use Emacs and XML at the same time ..
> yay ... certainly new and different as one poster put it ... better ..
> time till tell ...

Aunt Tilly (or Uncle Tilson) wouldn't be setting up any apps which
didn't provide their own menu entries. You can't expect Tilly / Tilson
to be writing their own shell scripts, or running nightly builds of
Thunderbird. If you can do those things, you can write a .desktop
file...
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