Adding new start up applications are very hard

[Vignesh]

Whenever one tries to add a start up application that will automatically load up, one has to search for the file that the launchers in the menu are attached to, something of very hard task for the average user.

[Robert Roth (evfool)]

What would be the best solution to solve this? Make the Startup applications app more intelligent, to be able to add applications from the Applications menu and from the currently running applications?

[Miguel Gaspar (ghaspias)]

For the (somewhat common) case where the user has to pick an application, the file-chooser should provide a link to /usr/share/applications in the Places side panel. That would also double as a convenient way to access applications from nautilus windows.

While some may object this kind of duplication, there's also a Desktop entry in places (although the Desktop is supposedly... in your desktop); and while most users will never browse the 'Filesystem' (a technical-sounding designation, not consistent with the '/' or 'root' or other conventions...), when they do, they will probably be looking for application launchers (which may not show up in the Application or System menus).

I don't like saying this, but... in windows, users can right-click and open up their Start Menu folder, and find where their stuff is (well, that's just shortcuts). Or browse their 'c:' drive [they are accustomed to that idiosyncratic designation] and find a folder named Program Files, right there.

[We have an OS that is heavily, fundamentally based on the filesystem, but we are breaking that, and that spells trouble...]

[Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)]

Nautilus has an "Open With" dialog that lists all the applications it knows about.

If that dialog is not a standard GTK widget, the first step is to make it a standard GTK widget. (That way Thunderbird could use it for letting you choose which application to open an attachment with, for example, in the same way that it uses the native GTK print dialog.)

Then, gnome-session-properties can use the same dialog for letting you choose a startup application.

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

Thank you for your bug report. This bug has already been reported, but please feel free to report any other bugs you find

[Vish (vish)]

Hmm, well found the dup!
Bug #32194

[Nikolaus Filus (nfilus)]

Vish, Bug #32194 is about startup order, not finding the application to launc on startup. Unmarking dup.

[Vish (vish)]

Nikolaus Filus , you are right, Thanks!

Found the real dup! Bug #140918