Creating a new launcher by drag and drop from application menu

[Nicklas W Bjurman]

I tried to drag and drop a launcher from the applications menu and it created the eclipse.desktop as can be seen in the screenshot to the right.

I also tried to create a new launcher from scratch and that worked fine as can be seen by the icon to the left on the screenshot.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

What ubuntu version do you use?

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please answer these questions:

 * Is this reproducible?
 * If so, what specific steps should we take to recreate this bug?
 * What ubuntu version do you run exactly?

 This will help us to find and resolve the problem.

[Nicklas W Bjurman (lordmetroid)]

I am using Karmic alpha 5

Of course it is reproducible, just drag and drop a launcher from the Applications menu to the desktop

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

I did try with gedit and gcalctool on current karmic and that works as expected

[Nicklas W Bjurman (lordmetroid)]

Aha, I have created the Eclipse launcher in the menu by my own as per https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/420873 the eclipse package will not install anymore due to gcj.

Hence I downloaded eclipse from the website and installed it in /opt/ and did my own launcher.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

could you confirm it works for other launchers?

[Nicklas W Bjurman (lordmetroid)]

Yes, I dragged out the calculator and it worked like expected.

[Sense Egbert Hofstede (sense)]

Thank you for helping by reporting this bug. However, this is desired behaviour, only when dragging a launcher to the desktop you will get an active launcher. If you want to use a launcher from a directory you should double-click the .desktop file, which is the extension of all launchers, and a dialogue will pop up asking you if you want to execute the file. Afterwards it should work the same as the launcher dragged to the desktop.