.desktop file for a gnome favorite shortcut, netbeans...

[metalfan]

hi,


the official netbeans installer installs a netbeans-8.2.desktop file to:

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~/.local/share/applications

which is the right place, it contains:

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[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=NetBeans IDE 8.2
Comment=The Smarter Way to Code
Exec=/bin/sh "/home/julius/netbeans-8.2/bin/netbeans"
Icon=/home/julius/netbeans-8.2/nb/netbeans.png
Categories=Application;Development;Java;IDE
Version=1.0
Type=Application
Terminal=0

it can be started trough the "gnome input bar", the thing when all windows are minimized at the top of the screen in the middle.
but i can not add it as favorite in the left launcher when it is running...why is that?

[pylkko]

I have never had any problems with this, even with programs I wrote (i.e the one single GTK program that I have ever written). But I don't know if you are doing it in a different way. What has worked for me is to run the program and then the icon appears in the bar. Once it does, left click it and choose "add to favorites". Is that what you tried, but it did not work?