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Shuttleworth: Unity shell will be default desktop in Ubuntu 11.04 (ars technica)

Shuttleworth: Unity shell will be default desktop in Ubuntu 11.04 (ars technica)

Posted Oct 26, 2010 16:33 UTC (Tue) by drag (subscriber, #31333)
In reply to: Shuttleworth: Unity shell will be default desktop in Ubuntu 11.04 (ars technica) by deepfire
Parent article: Shuttleworth: Unity shell will be default desktop in Ubuntu 11.04 (ars technica)

I, too, would like to have the ability to have a launcher for arbitrary commands.

This is something that is lost for both Unity and Gnome-Shell.

One of the things you can do, though, is create a *.desktop file that will communicate with the desktop environment and show it what icons and commands you'd like to be associated with a particular menu entry. Also you can use that for file associations so that instead of using 'gedit' by default when you access text files or whatnot you can use your 'emacsclient' script to launch it into your emacs session.


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