I can drag any .desktop file to the launcher, which is great, but where to put a .desktop file for it to appear in Unity's dash and dash searches? Apparently not in /usr/share/applications.
Ubuntu – How to add a custom launcher in Unity’s applications place
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Add this:
SCALA_HOME=/usr/local/typesafe-stack
to this:
/etc/environment
Why the Unity launcher doesn't source the users environment from .bashrc, as it should IMO, is anyone's guess.
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Best Answer
The apps place has a ~5s gracetime before it indexes new apps. They are indeed picked up from
/usr/share/applications(among other places). I just tested here and it seems to work fine.Right now you have to do a search or something else to change the result set though - it's only the underlying index which is updated right now. For this Thurday's release I'll land a fix so that we also update any active result sets when we detect changes.