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Fixing reference to desktop entry specification. The Gnome Dev site now only has an overview and itself references the Freedesktop spec.
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added one more step that I had to do for this solution to work
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You might need to restart GNOME for the new added applications to work.

Per convention, desktop files should not include spaces or international characters in their name.

Per convention, desktop files should not include spaces or international characters in their name.

You might need to restart GNOME for the new added applications to work.

Per convention, desktop files should not include spaces or international characters in their name.

use bash as shell in launch script to account for pushd/popd bashisms
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#!/bin/shbash pushd "/path/to/application/directory" ./application "$@" popd 
#!/bin/sh pushd "/path/to/application/directory" ./application "$@" popd 
#!/bin/bash pushd "/path/to/application/directory" ./application "$@" popd 
fix typo
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fix typo
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