Hi,
It looks like when you drag the libreoffice application to the desktop it creates a symbolic link to a directory that does not exist. In your Desktop directory you will see the link goes to:
Code:
../../lib/libreoffice/share/xdg/
And using 'cd' you cannot get to this directory. Gnome Classic under 12.04 must have a bug when drag and dropping applications from the menus to the desktop.
Furthermore if you create the correct symbolic link yourself to /usr/lib/libreoffice/share/xdg/writer.desktop you cannot launch it because you get the message:
Code:
Untrusted application launcher
On Ubuntu 10.04 it creates the correct link when you have dragged it to your desktop, but you get the same "untrusted" error dialog and it will not launch.
So I am guessing that the only option left as you have said is to create your own desktop file. There may be an easier way to do this, but I ended up having to do it this way via terminal for librewriter:
Code:
cd /usr/lib/libreoffice/share/xdg/
sudo cp writer.desktop ~/Desktop
cd ~/Desktop
sudo chown fred:fred writer.desktop
chmod 755 writer.desktop
Now I have a launcher on my desktop that correctly launches librewriter.
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