Thread: Shortcuts to files / folders on the desktop?
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2011-01-12 , 23:06
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Originally Posted by MohammadAG View Post
Just adding to the convo, notepad is ******ed when it comes to line breaks, read a README made in linux on it and see how it shows everything on one line.

May I suggest installing gedit on Windows or using Wordpad if you don't want to use leafpad.
So... I am still using fremantle. No Meego, nothing else

I tried the same as my predecessor and had a severe fight with the .desktop-file. I openend vi on the console and typed in the contents of another .desktop file by hand then saved. No icon or anything. After that I copied nmap.desktop (same contents) to myapp.desktop, edited that one, saved and at least the default icon (blue square) appeared in my shortcut menu.
What can interfere here? As I was using vi I suppose that my first file was saved with unix line endings. I didnīt check but utf-8 is also standard for that editor. I havenīt ever seen any file that wasnīt saved as utf-8 by default with vi. What is the catch?

Lastly: I still have the default icon although I place 48x48, 64x64, 128x128 png images into /usr/share/icons/hicolor/[dimension]x[dimension]/hildon

What must the format be? PNG 24 or PNG 8? What about transparency or alpha maps? Any experiences?

My entry in the desktop file was "Icon=myapp" as discussed before but no icon so far. Permissions are set like permissions on any other image file in the mentioned directories. What am I missing?

There are so many tuts on this desktop icon thingie but none of them covers all the aspects. Iīd love to write a blog entry on that.