Re: [orca-list] Installing gnome and switching from unity to gnome3 in Ubuntu 11.10 and 12.04?

[Dave Hunt <ka1cey gmail com>]

Greetings!

I think, if you know the structure of the launcher file (they have an 
extension of '.desktop'), you can make these, place them in the desktop 
folder, and they'll work.  There just is no longer a gui mechanism for 
doing this.  There are also some gsettings keys that you can set that 
put a trash icon, a computer icon, and a shortcut to connect to other 
machines on your network.


-Dave



On 04/28/2012 08:55 AM, Thomas Ward wrote:
> Hi Krishnakant,
> That's because Gnome 3.x does not allow you to create launchers on 
> your desktop. It doesn't work in Gnome shell, Gnome Classic, and I 
> don't believe Gnome Fallback either. As I've said on list earlier it 
> looks like the only use for the desktop as of Gnome 3.x is for sighted 
> users to display their desktop background images and nothing more.
>
> Of course,in the wider scheme of things that is becoming the norm. 
> Windows 8, for example, doesn't allow people to place icons directly 
> on the desktop either. Instead one has to pin them to the taskbar 
> which is kind of the same concept of adding a launcher to the launcher 
> toolbar in Unity. So in short it looks like no matter what OS or 
> desktop we as blind users want to use the desktop is no longer useful 
> to us for adding launchers and icons we frequently use.
>
> Cheers!
>
>
> On 4/28/2012 12:50 AM, Krishnakant mane wrote:
> >   Thomas,
> > Besides the problem you and dave mentioned, I can't find a way to 
> > create desktop shortcuts in gnome classic.
> > Happy hacking.
> > Krishnakant.