Some GUI programs don't show up in menu

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I have noticed that some apps with gui interface don’t show up in the desktop menu.

Ex. the ‘wnb’ app from wordnet.

I am wondering if we can make an automatic script that find all gui apps and
check if they are in the menu?

Maybe by finding package that link to a known gui interface libraries,
then all we need is a list of all gui libraries.

Anyone that have looked into this before???

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Wordnet seems to not have a .desktop file, at least how we package it. Don’t know if upstream has one.

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I have lots of my own .desktop files in ~/.local/share/applications/ to solve this problem. Not always super reproducible, but works fine for me. It’s also nice for customizable quick access to non-gui apps.

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