From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Mon, 5 Jan 2026 09:08:57 +0000, Jeff Layman wrote:   
      
   > One thing Windows does (did? I stopped using it 10 years ago) better   
   > than Linux was finding the *.exe file of an app from the start menu.   
   > I think it was available from a right-click on the program name. But   
   > the Linux Mint menu doesn't have that facility (why not?).   
      
   Remember that Linux GUIs construct their elements, not out of simple   
   (simplistic?) links directly to executables, but out of .desktop   
   files, which have an extensible text-based format that can contain a   
   bunch of info, including not just a command to execute, but also   
   descriptive names in any human language.   
      
   > If you right click on a menu item you can choose "Properties" and an   
   > info box "Launcher properties" pops up. This has a "Command" line   
   > showing the name of the app and "Browse". I thought this would have   
   > linked to the binary which launched the app, but all it does is open   
   > the file manager at "Choose a command" with home/.bluefish   
   > highlighted no matter what app you originally left-clicked on.   
      
   Presumably, this is a function of your GUI component that actually   
   provides the application menu.   
      
   On KDE Plasma, I have a choice of different widgets for this and other   
   functions. Just to test, I tried right-clicking on the “Firefox” item   
   in the “Internet” submenu of my app menu, and in the popup menu that   
   came up was the option “Edit Application...”.   
      
   Selecting that brought up a dialog with, among other things, a   
   “Program:” field that contained the full path of the executable. Sure   
   enough, clicking the icon next to it took me to a file picker   
   positioned at the directory where that executable was to be found,   
   with it preselected.   
      
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