Comment 4 for bug 704046

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Olivier Tilloy (osomon) wrote :

So I can confirm that freemind cannot be kept in the launcher. This is because bamf is unable to find the matching desktop file.

I also tested in unity, and found an interesting behaviour, confirmed by reading the code: every tile in the launcher can be "kept", regardless of whether the launcher knows the corresponding desktop file. But when the desktop file is unknown, the application is not actually added to the favorites (can be checked with `gsettings list-recursively com.canonical.Unity.Launcher`). I also guess the "favorite" won’t be persistent across sessions. Moreover, if the application is exited, it cannot be re-launched from the icon in the launcher (no desktop file associated…), which renders the functionality rather useless.

In short: the issue is with bamf, and there doesn’t seem to be a real discrepancy between unity-2d and unity.