I want to add a menu item of my application to the GNOME menu. I had created a desktop file for it and placed it in /usr/share/applications, but the menu item is not appearing in the GNOME menu. Below is my desktop file which I created in the name of Aces.desktop...
[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Version 1.0
Name=Aces
Comment=Compile and Execute C programs
Categories=GNOME;Application;Development;
Exec=/usr/share/Aces/Aces
Icon=/usr/share/Aces/icon.png
Terminal=false
Type=Application
StartupNotify=true
After placing it in /usr/share/applications, I tried restarting the PC and still it did not work.
Any kind of help is appreciatable... :)
I've found my silly mistake :) I forgot to give executable privileges to the desktop file. So after you give executable privileges to the desktop file by the command
chmod +x <desktop file path>
place it in
/usr/share/applications /* So the menu option is available to all the user */
or
~/.local/share/applications /* In this case the menu option is available only to that particular user*/
after you apply the executable permission, the desktop file will take the name and icon specified by you, in the .desktop file.