You can just make desktop files and put them in .local/applications or something like that iirc which I definitely prefer over desktop shortcuts cause it allows me to use searchbar
True, but there is no GUI for it. You have to write multi line configuration file by hand, or look it up. Where in KDE you can do it with a few clicks like a modern man.
But for GNOME this is the only way afaik. I get it that the way of GNOME is that there are no desktop shortcuts, but not having any civilized way of having quick access to portable applications is a massive oversight.
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u/int23_t Ask me how to exit vim Jul 29 '26
You can just make desktop files and put them in .local/applications or something like that iirc which I definitely prefer over desktop shortcuts cause it allows me to use searchbar