Yikes. I just finished telling my 7-year-old that dummy-spits are not the best way to get people to do what you'd like them to do.
Anyway ... what you've done is create a .desktop file in ~/.local/share/applications ... as noted in this thread. Next, you need to add this to your launcher bar ( ibar ). Hit ALT + ESC together, then type either the name you gave the app, or the path to the app. If you don't see your app appear in the filtered list, your .desktop file has issues. Locate it and figure out what the issue is. If you *do* see the app, launch it, then CTRL + right-click it, and select: [app name] ( first item in menu ) ==> Add to IBar ==> default ( or whatever IBar ) It should now be in your launcher. I see now, looking at the right-click menu for IBar, that there is a "+ Contents" item. Clicking this allows me to browse existing icons and add them to the IBar. Users that have been with E for a while will also know that in ~/.e/e/applications/bar/default there is a ".order" file that you can add .desktop file names to. This was the very old way of adding icons to the IBar. There are lots of ways. As for the rest of the comments, I've been using various versions of E for the past 15 years or so. It's always been usable for me - actually it's always been the *most* usable for me. I also appreciate the mammoth effort in porting to Wayland - this will certainly pay off in the long term. Dan On Fri, Jun 3, 2016 at 9:58 PM, Larry Wyble <llwy...@suddenlink.net> wrote: > On Thu, 2 Jun 2016 23:32:05 -0700 > Eric <eri...@cox.net> wrote: > >> On 06/03/2016 04:03 AM, Larry Wyble wrote: >> > On Thu, 2 Jun 2016 22:48:18 -0700 >> > Eric <eri...@cox.net> wrote: >> > >> >> >> >> >> Can you give an example of what steps you are taking to create the >> >> launcher, what application you are trying to launch and what errors >> >> you are receiving? >> >> >> >> Otherwise I don't know if I can provide any help. >> >> >> >> Kind regards, >> >> >> >> Eric >> > >> > Right click on the Ibar go up to ibar then click "create new icon > >> > then in the "Desktop Entry Editor" I put in the name, application, >> > then click icon and enter the icon name, them click apply and close >> > and nothing happens. It's like typing into nothing and hoping that >> > nothing actually does something for you. >> > >> > Thanks for replying >> > >> > >> That way is not working for me also but it does create a desktop file >> in the ~/.local/share/applications directory. >> >> Can you see if the entry is located there? If it is, try and drag it >> from the file manager to the ibar between some of the other >> application icons that are already there. >> >> I hope this works for you, >> >> kind regards, >> >> Eric > > Thanks Eric, but I think Jerry rigging is not the way this is supposed > to work. This should be working properly by using the menus and apps > built into Enlightenment, not by working around the designed > operation. This is supposed to be Basic usability and it's not. It's > ignored for the sake of NON-usability, IOW; Wayland. 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