Revisions to How can I add an application to the GNOME application menu?

Fixing reference to desktop entry specification. The Gnome Dev site now only has an overview and itself references the Freedesktop spec.

added one more step that I had to do for this solution to work

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

edited Dec 8, 2016 at 6:08

#!/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

edited Dec 2, 2013 at 11:41

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