On Wed, 10 Oct 2012 10:08:00 +0100 (BST) Toby Newman <[email protected]>
said:

> > Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2012 16:51:50 +0900
> > From: Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) <[email protected]>
> > Subject: Re: [e-users] Greyed out buttons in settings
> > To: Enlightenment users discussion & support
> >
> > On Mon, 1 Oct 2012 10:29:17 +0100 (BST) Toby Newman
> > <[email protected]> said:
> >
> >> Many of the buttons in my enlightenment settings are greyed out, meaning I
> >> cannot customise most of the desktop. Some examples of greyed out buttons
> >> are:
> >>
> >> Settings/Settings panel/apps/favorite applications/add
> >> Settings/Settings panel/apps/startup applications/add
> >>
> >> I'm running Enlightenment 0.16.999.0 on OpenSuse from:
> >> http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/X11:/Enlightenment:/Nightly/openSUSE_12.2
> >> (Thanks Alex-P for the repo link!)
> >>
> >> Does anyone know why these settings are disabled?
> >
> > to add or delete you need to SELECT an app from the list to add or remove
> > from the list of "startup apps" for example. if you don't have any apps to
> > select... thats another problem. you can add them via "personal application
> > launchers". as such existing apps should have been scanned/found.
> 
> It seems I can't SELECT an app from the list because the list is empty and 
> the Add button is disabled:
> http://www.enlightenment.org/ss/e-507538ff9239b8.92774855.jpg
> 
> When I try to use the "personal application launcher" it doesn't seem to 
> work. Do I need to fill in every field?
> As an example, I tried filling in for xterm as follows:
> Name: xterm
> Comment: Blah
> Application: /usr/bin/xterm
> Icon: Selected a jpg
> Run in Terminal (ticked)
> Show in menus (ticked)
> 
> When I press OK the window disappears and nothing seems to have happened?

it should work. efreet should pick up the newly created desktop file add it to
its db and then have a new desktop file list in memory - it works for me :/

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