SurlyJake » IDE http://www.surlyjake.com Fri, 30 Dec 2011 15:28:12 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Create a custom application launcher in GNOME3 http://www.surlyjake.com/2011/12/create-a-custom-application-launcher-in-gnome3/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=create-a-custom-application-launcher-in-gnome3 http://www.surlyjake.com/2011/12/create-a-custom-application-launcher-in-gnome3/#comments Fri, 30 Dec 2011 15:26:51 +0000 jacob http://www.surlyjake.com/?p=879 On Arch, the system-wide shortcuts are stored in /usr/share/applications. Each one is a .desktop file with a few parameters. user-specific icons are stored in ~/.local/share/applications. I downloaded eclipse and extracted it in my home directory, so I’ll use eclipse as the example application.

  1. Create the .desktop file: 
    nano ~/.local/share/applications/Eclipse.desktop

    Paste this in:

    [Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Version=1.0
Type=Application
NoDisplay=false
Exec=/path/to/eclipse/eclipse
Name=Eclipse Comment=Launcher for Eclipse

    Each line is pretty self-explanatory. Edit to suit your needs. As soon as you save the file, you will be able to see your new shortcut in the list.

  2. (Optional) Give the shortcut a nice-looking icon:
    You probably noticed that your icon is an ugly diamond. To pretty it up, you simply have to add one more line to the desktop file.

     Icon=/path/to/eclipse/eclipse.

    Your application may have included a png icon, but to make it really look nice, you should grab an SVG file of the logo from somewhere. Arch has a very simple packaging process which lets you examine all of the package building elements through their webpage at http://www.archlinux.org/packages/. I was able to grab the SVG which the package uses like this:

    wget -O eclipse.svg http://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/plain/trunk/eclipse.svg\?h\=packages/eclipse
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Best of all, all of the tools used in the process run perfectly in , or directly on my desktop.

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