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

[John Frankish <j-frankish slb com>]

> On Mar 30, 2014, at 13:17, "Jasper St. Pierre" <jstpierre mecheye net>
> wrote:
>
> > The desktop mode in nautilus is still supported part of our new Classic
> mode. The background shouldn't be turning white: it should be using an
> ARGB32 window that's fully transparent.
> Ah. I stand corrected.
>
> > I'm not sure exactly why gnome-shell shows "All Applications" as blank. Are
> there any .desktop files in /usr/share/applications/ ?
> OP stated that there were and that he could launch them with Nautilus.

The desktop files are in /usr/local/share/applications/

If I copy them to ~/.local/share/applications/ they still do not appear