Ubuntu Software Center says I have installed Padre. Green checkmark next to Installed. And over on the right it has a Remove button. But if I click on the top left corner icon and then type "Padre" I only get Reference, Weather and More Suggestions entries. No application to launch.
It also does not show up if I right click on that top-left-corner button and look for it in the list of applications icons.
But the software did install. "which padre" in a terminal window shows "/usr/bin/padre". And "padre &" in a terminal window brings up the application.
Is this a bug or a feature? Do you have to do additional work to get a program like Padre (a Perl IDE) to show up in search, or is it just a glitch in the system? On a menu-based system like KDE or Xfce there would automatically be a new item in the menu for Padre. Is this not the case for Ubuntu Unity (not menu since there is none, but searchable)?
For lightdm/unity once you bring the application through terminal an icon should appear in that launch bar on the left. Right click it and select pin/add to launch bar. There should be something similar in KDE. Yeah some apps just don't show up in search I guess , but it's mostly seems to be common in command line apps.