For reference, I'm currently using Ubuntu 11.04 running on an Asus EeePC 1001HA, running Unity-2D.

I've been trying to add Quicklists into my Unity Launcher, following instructions from this AskUbuntu question. So what I do is I:

• Copy the requested *.desktop file from /usr/share/applications/ to ~/.local/share/applications/.


• Make my edits.


• Logout and login again to reflect the new changes.

This doesn't work -- the quicklists doesn't appear when I right-click them.

What I do next is...

• Open Nautilus, and find the *.desktop file.


• Right-click the Launcher icon I want to replace, and select "Remove From Launcher".


• Drag the *.desktop files I want to use on launcher directly.

The icon appears, but the quicklist doesn't, when I right-click the icon. This persists even after restarts.

As an example, here's my google-chrome.desktop file:

[Desktop Entry]

Version=1.0

Name=Google Chrome

# Only KDE 4 seems to use GenericName, so we reuse the KDE strings.

# From Ubuntu's language-pack-kde-XX-base packages, version 9.04-20090413.

GenericName=Web Browser

# Not translated in KDE, from Epiphany 2.26.1-0ubuntu1.

GenericName[fil]=Web Browser

# Gnome and KDE 3 uses Comment.

Comment=Access the Internet

Exec=/opt/google/chrome/google-chrome

OnlyShowIn=GNOME;Unity

Terminal=false

Icon=google-chrome

Type=Application

Categories=Network;WebBrowser;

MimeType=text/html;text/xml;application/xhtml_xml;x-scheme-handler/http;x-scheme-handler/https;x-scheme-handler/ftp;

X-Ayatana-Desktop-Shortcuts=NewWindow;Incognito;



[NewWindow Shortcut Group]

Name=New Window

Exec=google-chrome

TargetEnvironment=Unity



[Incognito Shortcut Group]

Name=New incognito window

Exec=google-chrome --incognito

TargetEnvironment=Unity

I definitely know that dragging the *.desktop file to the Launcher works -- if I change the exec directive to include --incognito, the browser does launch in incognito mode.

But for some strange reason the quicklist doesn't appear. Is this there an issue with how my Unity-2D is set up, or aren't quicklists supported by Unity-2D?