Re: [Dorset] Getting programs on to the 'Application Launcher' menu

2023-02-04 Thread Patrick Wigmore
On Sat, 04 Feb 2023 17:05:16 +, Ralph Corderoy wrote: > Hi Patrick, > > Thanks for digging. > > > With some experimentation, I found that the null byte comes from > > KMail's "Add quote characters" feature. Oh dear. I don't think > > it is supposed to do that. > : > :-) Perhaps some

Re: [Dorset] Getting programs on to the 'Application Launcher' menu

2023-02-04 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Patrick, Thanks for digging. > With some experimentation, I found that the null byte comes from > KMail's "Add quote characters" feature. Oh dear. I don't think it is > supposed to do that. :-) Perhaps some off-by-one error included the terminator of a NUL-terminated string. > I assume

Re: [Dorset] Getting programs on to the 'Application Launcher' menu

2023-02-04 Thread Patrick Wigmore
On Sat, 04 Feb 2023 07:00:27 +, Ralph Corderoy wrote: > You email has a byte with the value 0x80 after the semicolon in the > Categories line, rendered as ASCII above, by the time it reaches > here. > > Is it in the .desktop file or did it get added somewhere between > there and here? If

Re: [Dorset] Getting programs on to the 'Application Launcher' menu

2023-02-04 Thread Peter Merchant
On 04/02/2023 07:00, Ralph Corderoy wrote: Hi Patrick, I downloaded the .deb package from their website at MicroBlocks.fun and opened it as an archive file to see what the .desktop file contains: [Desktop Entry] Name=MicroBlocks Comment=MicroBlocks is a graphical and dynamic blocks language

Re: [Dorset] Getting programs on to the 'Application Launcher' menu

2023-02-03 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Patrick, > I downloaded the .deb package from their website at MicroBlocks.fun > and opened it as an archive file to see what the .desktop file > contains: > > > [Desktop Entry] > > Name=MicroBlocks > > Comment=MicroBlocks is a graphical and dynamic blocks language for > > 32 bit

Re: [Dorset] Getting programs on to the 'Application Launcher' menu

2023-02-03 Thread Patrick Wigmore
Re-sending this as I originally mistakenly sent it directly to Peter (at 17:13) instead of to the list. On Fri, 03 Feb 2023 12:25:35 +, Peter Merchant via dorset wrote: > Tried Locate - /usr/share/applications/MicroBlocks.desktop If you view the .desktop file as text, it should contain the

Re: [Dorset] Getting programs on to the 'Application Launcher' menu

2023-02-03 Thread Peter Merchant
On 03/02/2023 16:43, Peter Merchant wrote: On 03/02/2023 13:40, Peter Merchant wrote: On 03/02/2023 12:42, Terry Coles wrote: On 03/02/2023 11:39, Peter Merchant via dorset wrote: Ah, herein is the rub. I don't know where the program is stored. And with the Arduino one, I have installed and 

Re: [Dorset] Getting programs on to the 'Application Launcher' menu

2023-02-03 Thread Peter Merchant
On 03/02/2023 13:40, Peter Merchant wrote: On 03/02/2023 12:42, Terry Coles wrote: On 03/02/2023 11:39, Peter Merchant via dorset wrote: Ah, herein is the rub. I don't know where the program is stored. And with the Arduino one, I have installed and  removed it so many times trying to find a

Re: [Dorset] Getting programs on to the 'Application Launcher' menu

2023-02-03 Thread Terry Coles
On 03/02/2023 13:40, Peter Merchant wrote: It doesn't run from the command line, but it is found and runs from the search bar in the Application Launcher. When It is found this way, I can bring up the properties with a right click, but haven't yet found how to set it in the Application

Re: [Dorset] Getting programs on to the 'Application Launcher' menu

2023-02-03 Thread Hugh Frater
Google suggests that the arduino ide binary is located in ~/.local On Fri, 3 Feb 2023 at 13:40, Peter Merchant wrote: > On 03/02/2023 12:42, Terry Coles wrote: > > On 03/02/2023 11:39, Peter Merchant via dorset wrote: > >> Ah, herein is the rub. I don't know where the program is stored. And >

Re: [Dorset] Getting programs on to the 'Application Launcher' menu

2023-02-03 Thread Peter Merchant
On 03/02/2023 12:42, Terry Coles wrote: On 03/02/2023 11:39, Peter Merchant via dorset wrote: Ah, herein is the rub. I don't know where the program is stored. And with the Arduino one, I have installed and  removed it so many times trying to find a version that works for me that I am sure that

Re: [Dorset] Getting programs on to the 'Application Launcher' menu

2023-02-03 Thread Terry Coles
On 03/02/2023 11:39, Peter Merchant via dorset wrote: Ah, herein is the rub. I don't know where the program is stored. And with the Arduino one, I have installed and  removed it so many times trying to find a version that works for me that I am sure that my computer is full of junk. PS Arduino

Re: [Dorset] Getting programs on to the 'Application Launcher' menu

2023-02-03 Thread Peter Merchant via dorset
On 03/02/2023 11:39, Peter Merchant via dorset wrote: On 03/02/2023 09:39, Terry Coles wrote: On 03/02/2023 09:26, Peter Merchant wrote: I recently installed a program to my Kubuntu 20.04 system called Microblocks. It is a scratch-like program for things like an ESP-32. The problem is that

Re: [Dorset] Getting programs on to the 'Application Launcher' menu

2023-02-03 Thread Peter Merchant via dorset
On 03/02/2023 09:39, Terry Coles wrote: On 03/02/2023 09:26, Peter Merchant wrote: I recently installed a program to my Kubuntu 20.04 system called Microblocks. It is a scratch-like program for things like an ESP-32. The problem is that it doesn't appear anywhere in my application launcher,

Re: [Dorset] Getting programs on to the 'Application Launcher' menu

2023-02-03 Thread Terry Coles
On 03/02/2023 09:26, Peter Merchant wrote: I recently installed a program to my Kubuntu 20.04 system called Microblocks. It is a scratch-like program for things like an ESP-32. The problem is that it doesn't appear anywhere in my application launcher, but if I type the name in on the 'search'

[Dorset] Getting programs on to the 'Application Launcher' menu

2023-02-03 Thread Peter Merchant
I recently installed a program to my Kubuntu 20.04 system called Microblocks. It is a scratch-like program for things like an ESP-32. The problem is that it doesn't appear anywhere in my application launcher, but if I type the name in on the 'search' bar of the AL, it finds it. Does anybody