Custom wine launchers are not recognized.

[Kao Dome]

I have some Windows programs installed through Wine, as I disable the winemenubuilder application I create some launcher files so that the relevant programs can be easily run.

I tried with both 0.2.6 and rev. 442 but those programs won't appear as I type part of them. There is an example of a custom launcher attached so that you can test, writing "dBpoweramp" or "Music" or "Converter" won't show it up.

Those files generally reside in /usr/share/applications owned by root with permissions 644, but they could also be in ~/.local/share/applications owned by the user. How come Synapse was able to find Leafpad for example but not those?

I'm currently running Gnome 2.32.1 in a 64-bit machine.

[Michal Hruby (mhr3)]

And this is why:

[15:56:23.628109 Warning] [DesktopFileInfo] Invalid desktop file: Key file contains key 'Exec' which has value that cannot be interpreted.

You can't use backslash escaping in desktop files.

[Kao Dome (kaodome)]

Oh, I see... I never noticed that as launching them from the Gnome menu worked fine.

Replacing backslash escaping with double quotes worked as expected, for example:

/home/kao/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files\ \(x86\)/foo.exe
by
"/home/kao/.wine/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/foo.exe"

Thank you very much for your prompt reply Michal.

[Michal Hruby (mhr3)]

Well, the desktop file spec doesn't really say that this shouldn't work, it might be a bug in glib's keyfile parser. Still, use the quoted format as a workaround.