Hey guys,

I was curious about something. When Wine installs a program, that creates a shortcut after installation, it is usually placed on the desktop (as it would in Windows).

So how I can create the same type of shortcut which will use the .exe's inbuilt icon; as Wine does? I know how to create a shortcut but i'd manually need to search for a .png file to use as that shortcuts icon.

The advice is appreciated.

r2rX

Never tried it myself, but icoutils is supposed to be able to extract icons from exe files. http://www.nongnu.org/icoutils/

Thanks for the response, dimesio.

But how does Wine do it? Can I not imitate the command line? I'll look into icoutils.

r2rX

Hey guys,

Alright, I have icoutils installed and I successfully extracted the icon/s:



I then opened the .ico file in Image Viewer and saved as .png.

So that's definitely some progress.

r2rX

Maybe you could use imagemagick to convert the ico to png
automatically. Something like:

convert "file.ico" -alpha on -background none -flatten "file.png"

Thanks for the suggestion, Bruno.

Maybe a script can be written to incorporate the extraction and conversion (via GUI as well) with a sample shown through it.

Would it be worth incorporating it into Wine?

r2rX

http://wiki.winehq.org/winemenubuilder?

On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 6:16 AM, r2rX <wineforum-user@winehq.org> wrote:

I'm assuming you are using a Mac. There was an effort to do this and
I don't know where it stands today. I might 'resurrect' the old
WineHelper project to see if we can get a launcher with icons
attached...

If you want to look at it, the Darwine project included this code and
was on-hold the last I checked.

James

It's would be nice for Mac users...although i'm on Linux.

I'll take a look at the winemenubuilder, KenSharp.

r2rX