.desktops that have "Settings" in the Categories= line will not show in the applications lenses or search

[Doug McMahon]

Am finding that any .desktop with Settings in that line doesn't show in gnome-shells applications lenses and can't be found in a search
Removing Settings from the line allows them to show
Clear examples are synaptic.desktop and update-manager.desktop

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: gnome-shell 3.0.2-1svn2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-9.43lp760131v201106060906-generic 2.6.38.7
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-9-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Jul 12 12:32:38 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Alpha i386 (20110202)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-shell
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-07-03 (9 days ago)

[Doug McMahon (mc3man)]

Further - if the edited .desktops are in /usr/.. then they will only show for the login when they were edited.
To keep permanently visible they need to be copied to `~/.local/share/applications
This seems to only affect 32 bit install, though not confirmed here, only have a 32 bit install

[Quackers (quackers)]

Same here old bean :-)

[Doug McMahon (mc3man)]

I think it's worth mentioning that on a fresh 07/15 install this is no longer an issue, icons that previously failed to show are there and all added apps are also showing.
Other than the applications.menu snafu gnome-shell is working fine

So I'd consider this fixed as far as 'current state'. it may arise down the road it terms of upgrades from 11.04 to 11.10

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

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