Hi! I’m having the issue similar to this one, but in my case I have my .desktop files precisely in ~/.local/share/applications/:
venya ~$ ls -lah ~/.local/share/applications/
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drwx------ 2 venya users 4,0K окт 3 20:45 .
drwx------ 32 venya users 4,0K окт 3 20:49 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 venya users 277 окт 2 23:09 discord-1221314350216646828.desktop
-rw-r--r-- 1 venya users 194 окт 3 00:06 discord-460807638964371468.desktop
-rw-r--r-- 1 venya users 534 окт 3 20:11 logseq.desktop
-rw-r--r-- 1 venya users 355 окт 3 20:45 mimeinfo.cache
-rw-r--r-- 1 venya users 697 окт 2 23:09 suyu.desktop
-rw------- 1 venya users 202 сен 23 22:45 userapp-Thunderbird-MPQWU2.desktop
venya ~$ cat ~/.local/share/applications/logseq.desktop
[Desktop Entry]
Name=Logseq
Exec=appimage-run /home/venya/AppImages/logseq.appimage --enable-features=UseOzonePlatform --ozone-platform=wayland %u
TryExec=appimage-run /home/venya/AppImages/logseq.appimage --enable-features=UseOzonePlatform --ozone-platform=wayland
Icon=/home/venya/AppImages/.icons/logseq.png
Terminal=false
Type=Application
StartupWMClass=Logseq
X-AppImage-Version=0.10.9
Comment=A privacy-first, open-source platform for knowledge management and collaboration.
MimeType=x-scheme-handler/logseq
Categories=Utility
venya ~$
But they do not appear on Gnome Launcher. I’ve checked the $XDG_DATA_DIRS - it hasn’t had $HOME/.local/share dir, so I added one through export directive in /etc/profile.local and it is there now, but still doesn’t help(
Can you please point me to what is I’m missing here?