In older versions it was easy to create a launcher on my desktop. All I had to do is right click on my desktop and select the "create launcher" option.
How can I create such launchers now?
The old GUI dialog is still available if you still want to use this:
Using ALT+F2 type
gnome-desktop-item-edit --create-new ~/Desktop
This will launch the old GUI Dialog and create a launcher on your Desktop:
Prerequisites
gnome-desktop-item-edit is installed automatically if you have installed gnome-shell/gnome-fallback. It is also installed automatically if you have previously installed gnome-tweak-tool.
Alternatively, you can install the old gnome-panel without much of the bulk:
sudo apt-get install --no-install-recommends gnome-panel
You can later move the MyLauncher.Desktop file from ~/Desktop to ~/.local/share/applications/ to make it appear in all applications dashboards, or to /usr/local/share/applications to make it available to all users (Thanks to @JonBently's comment).
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