Re: Wine doesn't create desktop icons

[José Alburquerque <jaalburquerque@cox.net>]

Kevin Mark wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 09:35:29PM -0400, Jos? Alburquerque wrote:
>  
>
> > Would anyone know how I might get wine to create icons on my desktop 
> > when I install a new program?  I need to install a browser plugin only 
> > available for Windows that will enable me to learn a bit of music 
> > theory.  I'd like to be able to install Firefox for Windows and see the 
> > icon on my desktop for easy access.  (For those interested, the music 
> > theory site is: http://www.dolmetsch.com/theoryintro.htm and in some of 
> > its pages, like http://www.dolmetsch.com/musictheory8.htm, it uses a 
> > plugin called Sibelius Scorch to allow viewing and listening to musical 
> > scores.)
> >
> > --
> > Sincerely
> >    
> Hi Jose,
> I do this:
> create a file called 'firefox.exe' in ~/bin
>
> firefox.exe contains:
> #-----------------------
> $HOME/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/Mozilla\ Firefox/firefox.exe $@
> #-----------------------
>
> chmod +x ~/bin/firefox.exe
>
> then I can run 'firefox.exe' to start it, or 
> 'firefox.exe http://www.google.com' to open a web site.
> cheers,
> Kev
>  
Thanks Kevin.  I remember when I used wine (in my recently previous 
redhat days) that wine itself (on installation) created an actual icon 
on the desktop which could just be clicked and executed (sort of as if 
the program were running in windows but in fact it really ran in 
linux).  The icon was a desktop file (*.desktop) (for gnome or kde) that 
contained a line similar to what you wrote above to execute the program 
(all together with an excellent displaying graphic).

The packages I got for my system then were directly from the wine site.  
This makes me believe that wine has the capability of creating desktop 
icons (on installation) regardless of platform.

I'll see what I can find, but in the mean time, I'll do exactly as you 
say above.  Thanks!

--
Sincerely
Jose Alburquerque