Navigator not added to classic menu indicator on Ubuntu 16.04

[dartdog]

No items on the menu, nor for Spyder or Orange.. the root python and the py27 items are added... all start fine from command line... (sometimes hard to remember so I like menus!)

[goanpeca]

Hi @dartdog thanks for your comment

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@ilanschnell, @csoja ?

[ccordoba12]

This needs to be solved in the menuinst package.

[Gabriel-p]

Still no work on this bug? It's pretty annoying to install the app and not be able to launch it afterwards. The fix can not be all that complicated, can it?

[ccordoba12]

Please submit a pull request for it against the menuinst package to support adding menus on Linux.

[Gabriel-p]

This menuist package?

Menuinst is currently only supported on Windows. Legacy code exists for Linux and OS X - use at your own risk. It may mess up your menus.

Why would you use a package that is only supported on Windows in your cross-platform app?

[ccordoba12]

menuinst is the right place to make this happen. It has missing functionality for Linux and macOS and (unfortunately) none of us has had the time to fix it, sorry.

[bilderbuchi]

👍 to this issue! Relevant issue in the menuinst tracker is conda/menuinst#48.

[goanpeca]

@bilderbuchi indeed, I will be doing the work to update Osx/Linux support

[jabaa]

Is there an icon for anaconda-navigator? Can't find one that I could use to create a linux launcher.

[cromat]

@jabaa Here is the icon.

[jabaa]

Thank you. It would be great, if it was in the anaconda project. I looked for an icon but I only found navigator.ico. It's not usable for xfce starter.

[fbidu]

Just dropping by to say that I also spent some time looking for the official icon in order to create a menu launcher and was not able to find. I +1 the idea of adding the file supplied by @cromat to the official distribution.

[iam-mhaseeb]

I solved it with this solution:

nano ~/.local/share/applications/anaconda.desktop
[Desktop Entry]
Name=Anaconda
Comment=anaconda-navigator
Exec=/usr/bin/env PATH=/home/haseeb/anaconda3/bin/:$PATH /home/haseeb/anaconda3/bin/anaconda-navigator
Icon=/home/haseeb/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/anaconda_navigator/static/images/logos/continuum_twitter.jpg
Terminal=false
Type=Application
StartupNotify=true