Adding desktop entries in GNOME 3

Firefox Developer Edition has newer features than what was available from my distribution’s package manager (Fedora). Whereas I’ve been using it as my daily driver, I’ve had to do so through a terminal to launch it. With an alias in my ~/.bashrc such as dfox="~/Preview/firefox-developer/firefox --profile ~/.mozilla/firefox/7ahl24yk.default/' I was able to launch Firefox Developer quickly enough. Unfortunately, I found it annoying that I couldn’t just type [Super Key] + “Fire” in GNOME and be on my way to browsing the web. ...

October 17, 2016 · 448 words