Why can't I Edit desktop file from Nautilus?

[Colin Law]

On 29 July 2011 00:24, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> [...]
> One thing that's always puzzled me is that Nautilus doesn't even display
> some files - example:
>
> $ ls -al /home/gg/.local/share/applications
> total 696
> drwxr-xr-x  3 gg   gg   12288 2011-07-28 13:10 .
> drwx------ 30 gg   gg    4096 2011-07-17 12:07 ..
> -rw-r--r--  1 gg   gg     405 2010-05-19 21:19 AdobeReader.desktop
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 gg   gg     460 2011-05-23 20:07 alacarte-made-10.desktop
>
> the alacarte-made-10.desktop file isn't displayed in Nautilus.

It seems that Nautilus displays the file as if its name is that
defined in the Name= line from the file (if the file is executable).

Colin