Show the desktop file in the app menu by default

[Bart]

I installed gvim with the "add/remove Applications" (it is the 2nd package I install after installing a fresh new Ubuntu)

It says it should be added to the "application/Accesories" menu but it isn't.
When I do "gvim" in a terminal I get:

** ERROR **: Resource problem creating '/home/bde/tmp/orbit-bdm'
aborting...
Vim: Caught deadly signal ABRT
Vim: Finished.
Aborted

At the end of installation you get a "New Applications" window
Strangely enough, there I can launch gvim.

Bart

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

ubiquity is the live CD installer, not add/remove applications or any other general-purpose repository for package installation problems. I guess this belongs to either gnome-app-install or vim.

[Jerome S. Gotangco (jsgotangco)]

gvim not running from the terminal is not an issue here (it actually works fine with me) but rather gvim not getting reflected in Applications -> Accessories when you have been told so. The shortcut is disabled and had to use Alacarte to turn it on and have it reflected in the right place.

[Pascal De Vuyst (pascal-devuyst)]

It looks like gvim.desktop is hidden by default in Ubuntu.

vim (1:7.1-138+1ubuntu1) hardy; urgency=low

  * Merge from debian unstable, remaining changes:
    + debian/gvim.desktop:
      - Add NoDisplay=true

 -- Soren Hansen <email address hidden> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 15:37:56 +0200

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

This is also bug 3222. I'll fix it shortly ...