Re: [g-a-devel] GNOME3

[Juanjo Marín <juanjomarin96 yahoo es>]

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> De: Piñeiro <apinheiro igalia com>
> Para: gnome-accessibility-devel gnome org
> CC: 
> Enviado: lunes 16 de enero de 2012 12:28
> Asunto: Re: [g-a-devel] GNOME3
> 
> On 01/14/2012 12:44 AM, Smitten wrote:
>>  Thank you for your response, and for the links. Extremely helpful. I
>>  hope I did this right. I sent to the list and to you. It's been a VERY
>>  long time since I worked through lists. *grin*
>> 
>>  With reference to:
>> 
>>  >>. Instead of going to the Applications view, I think
>>  is more sensible to configure the dash with your >>favorite 
> applications
>> 
>>  How do you add applications to the dash which are not found in the
>>  applications menu? For example, I have installed xmag for a few of the
>>  users and I haven't found a way to add it to the dash. Drag and drop
>>  from the folder didn't work. Trying to drag the icon to the dash while
>>  the application was running didn't work. I have reverted to the old
>>  desktop and added it there, but I would like to use it as intended. I
>>  haven't tried GNOME Magnifier yet, as I have to install.
> 
> Hi, I have just installed xmag and take a look. AFAIK, in order to add a
> application to the Dash the application needs to provide a .desktop
> file. And xmag doesn't provide it (for the same reason, xmag doesn't
> appear on the applications menu as you said). Anyway, I'm not sure who
> usually solves this, if the distro of the original developer.
> 


You can use alacarte to manage the applications and the categories  shown
in the application menu.

Cheers,

    -- Juanjo Marin