Unity/Gnome does not appear to pickup changes to .desktop files automatically (in particular the "Name" and "Icon" fields).
I have found update-desktop-database
, but that seems to update the MIME database only (and does not look into ~/.local/share/applications (according to strace)).
After logging out and in again, the changes get recognized, but I would like to use a more convenient method of course.
.desktop
file. Let me know if anything is unclear.