why does Nautilus appear under the name Files in the app menu?

[foampile]

it is kind of vague and stupid, Nautilus is a much better name. and how do i change it?

thanks

[nonamedotc]

Why? No idea.

How to change?
Edit the name entry in the file /usr/share/applications/nautilus.desktop to whatever you want and that should be all that is needed.

[foampile]

awesome, dude !! i love the flexibility in this OS

[nonamedotc]

It is actually quite convenient

[foampile]

hmmm ... why doesn't every app have a config file in /usr/share/applications/. i am using Gwenview for image viewing and it doesn't have one

---------- Post added at 11:34 PM ---------- Previous post was at 11:32 PM ----------

oh, i found it under kde4 subdir. nvrmnd

---------- Post added 5th February 2012 at 12:22 AM ---------- Previous post was 4th February 2012 at 11:34 PM ----------

do you know , if i want to change an app icon, in which of the resolution sub dirs should i situate the PNG and whether i need to map it somewhere in some property file? i tried putting one in the 256x256 dir (which is what my icon was) but it didn't get picked up by the system.

foampile@/usr/share/icons/gnome@19:22:25>ls -la
total 65020
drwxr-xr-x. 10 root root 4096 Jan 22 21:18 .
drwxr-xr-x. 15 root root 4096 Feb 3 17:34 ..
drwxr-xr-x. 12 root root 4096 May 7 2011 16x16
drwxr-xr-x. 12 root root 4096 May 7 2011 22x22
drwxr-xr-x. 11 root root 4096 May 7 2011 24x24
drwxr-xr-x. 11 root root 4096 May 7 2011 256x256
drwxr-xr-x. 12 root root 4096 May 7 2011 32x32
drwxr-xr-x. 12 root root 4096 May 7 2011 48x48
drwxr-xr-x. 3 root root 4096 Jan 22 20:54 8x8
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 66523712 Jan 22 21:18 icon-theme.cache
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 11409 Nov 2 14:18 index.theme
drwxr-xr-x. 10 root root 4096 Jan 22 20:54 scalable

[nonamedotc]

I have placed an image in the scalable directory and it has worked for me in the past ...

[foampile]

OK, thanks. do you know if SVG vs PNG matters?

---------- Post added at 02:10 AM ---------- Previous post was at 01:05 AM ----------

i think it does. all the icons in the scalable dir are SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics). PNG is not scalable, i put it in the scalable dir and it didn't get picked up

[nonamedotc]

oh yes! I forgot to mention that. I am sorry! I did have an svg file ...

---------- Post added at 08:43 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:42 PM ----------

You can also edit the .desktop file to specify the location of the image I think (my be, not sure).