[Solved] Application launchers on desktop in Gnome 3.2?

So, I'm testing out gnome 3.2 again and I'm trying to create launchers on my desktop, but there doesn't appear to be an option for it in Gnome 3.2 when I right click my desktop. I have Nautilus drawing the desktop so did Gnome completely do away with this feature, and if so is there a way to manually create launchers (i'm assuming there is) using Gedit?
Last edited by Mr_ED-horsey (2011-10-17 20:02:07)

Fixed. Found the answer on the Fedora forums:
[Desktop Entry]
Name=*******
Type=Application
Exec=launchcommand
Icon=pathtoicon
Categories=***********
Save as .desktop file and done. Linux is cool
Last edited by Mr_ED-horsey (2011-10-17 20:13:31)

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