Applications Program Icons

[Geffers]

The program icons that come up when you hover over the Applications task bar menu, I assume they are just program shortcuts, where are they listed.

Geffers

[Frogs Hair]

The program icons that come up when you hover over the Applications task bar menu, I assume they are just program shortcuts, where are they listed.

Geffers

If you select the top icon it will open dash and the categories are listed there. See the link for user tips.

http://fridge.ubuntu.com/2011/04/21/the-power-user’s-guide-to-unity/

[Krytarik]

The program icons that come up when you hover over the Applications task bar menu, I assume they are just program shortcuts, where are they listed.
The corresponding .desktop files are under "/usr/share/applications" (system-wide) and "~/.local/share/applications" (user-specific, custom).

Regards.

[Geffers]

The corresponding .desktop files are under "/usr/share/applications" (system-wide) and "~/.local/share/applications" (user-specific, custom).

Regards.

Thank you, they all appear to be listed in the /usr/share/applications directory but how do the applications then appear in sub sections from the Task Bar.

Geffers

[Krytarik]

Thank you, they all appear to be listed in the /usr/share/applications directory but how do the applications then appear in sub sections from the Task Bar.
That's specified by their respective "Categories" key. For further reading:

http://standards.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/latest/