The patch file mentioned above ("05_desktop-file.patch") fails to patch my gtodo.desktop file.
After a little scouting around I found that my copy of gtodo.desktop is suffering from lack of a new-line character in its last line. I am attaching the patch that fixed my gtodo.desktop ** Attachment added: "Patch gtodo.desktop: cures unknown encoding parse error" http://librarian.launchpad.net/4518533/gtodo.desktop.patch -- gtodo.desktop: Missing Encoding Directive https://launchpad.net/bugs/48628 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs