Re: kupfer doesn't see skype

[Ulrik Sverdrup <ulrik sverdrup gmail com>]

2010/11/6 Anton K <vangop gmail com>:
> Hi,
> I had some mess with skype launcher. It was on the main menu, but I
> couldn't remove it. So I went to
> .local/share/applications and found it there - myskype.desktop along
> with a bunch of myskype.desktop-undoX files.
> I removed them alltogether.
> But now kupfer doesn't see skype.desktop at all, which is present in a
> lot of places:
> /.local/share/applications/panel$ ll
> drwxr-xr-x 2 ak ak 4096 2010-11-06 08:57 ./
> drwxr-xr-x 4 ak ak 4096 2010-11-06 08:46 ../
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 ak ak  294 2010-07-03 16:55 CR2.desktop*
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 ak ak  182 2010-07-02 16:43 eclipse-1.desktop*
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 ak ak  181 2010-11-06 08:57 skype.desktop*
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 ak ak  284 2010-09-16 10:30 skypex.desktop.old*
> (All the above apps are visible to kupfer, but skype)
>
> $ll /usr/share/applications/skype.desktop
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 169 2010-05-24 22:37
> /usr/share/applications/skype.desktop
>
> I'm on ubuntu 10.04.
> Thanks


Hi -- Kupfer treats .desktop files basically exactly like the
gnome-panel treats them (we don't parse them ourselves). So a quick
check for you would be to use the menu edit program and make sure
Skype is enabled (visible) there.

Launchers in ~/.local/share/applications will shadow those in  other
directiories if they have the same name. If you still wonder why skype
doesn't show up, open the ~/.local skype.dkestop file for editing and
make sure the file doesn't explicitly hide itself:

http://standards.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/latest/ar01s05.html

Watch out for NoDisplay=true or Hidden=true or OnlyShowIn= <something>
or NotShowIn= <something>  Also TryExec= can point to something that
doesn't exist! I'm sure the answer is in the file.

Ulrik