RE: No application or applet icons in gmome-shell-3.10.3

[John Frankish <j-frankish slb com>]

> > > > I'm using gnome-shell on a simple linux system having compiling
> > > > the various components from source.
> > > >
> > > > Whilst things seem to work well in the "activities view", I do not
> > > > get any application icons on the desktop nor applet icons in the
> > > > top panel.
> > > >
> > > > I can use nautilus to navigate to /usr/local/share/applications
> > > > and launch various gnome apps by double-clicking on the *desktop
> > > > files, so things seem to be in order, but I cannot figure out why
> > > > there are no application icons on the desktop.
> > > >
> > > > Note that I've enabled desktop icons using dconf-editor, but this
> > > > does not change anything - any trouble-shooting suggestions would
> > > > be welcome.
It might make it easier to troubleshoot if somebody could help me out with the following:

1. What application/script/etc does gnome-shell use to search for available applications?

2. What determines where gnome-shell searches for available applications?

3. What does gnome-shell search for - *desktop files, cache file from update-desktop-database, or?

Regards
John