GNOME 3.4 how to make an app launcher?

[greno]

This GNOME 3.4 is starting to get on my nerves.

How on earth do you create something as basic and necessary as an application launcher?

I don't want to muck with stuff under /usr.

I want the app launcher to be just for my own desktop.

I tried creating a .desktop file under ~/.local/share/applications - Nope.

I tried creating a .desktop file under ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/applications - Nope.

And yes, I reloaded the shell with Alt-F2 -> r.


UPDATE: I tried this again and was able to create ~/.local/share/applications/myapp.desktop file that worked.

This would be way too hard for average user to comprehend.

Need much simpler mechanism for users to add a simple application launcher.

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