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Steven Coté writes: >> > Synaptic will tell you all the packages that are installed, and you may >> > find that a rather large proportion of them are "libraries" and as such >> > have no need for menu entries. >> >> ...yeah I thought so but this was a P2P program that I installed and I >> fully >> expected there to be an entry in the menu... > > With software packaged by Ubuntu, pretty much every gui application should > have a menu entry. In fact, if you've installed a p2p app and there isn't a > launcher in the menu, it sounds like it might be a bug. If that's the case, then > it may be worth filing a bug report with Ubuntu. > > With 3rd party software however, all bets are off. Sometimes they'll include the > gnome launchers as part of their install, but often they won't bother. In this > case, you'll have to start the application from the command line. You can create > custom launchers however. Just right-click on a panel and select "Add to panel..." > and click the Application Launcher button. .....OK, and choose an icon for it aswell I guess?.... Jon. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html