How to create a Wine shortcut on the Desktop (KDE)

[nounours18200]

Hi Friends,

I want to create a shortcut on the desktop (Fedora 16 with KDE 4) to call a windows executable (a ".exe", let say "discus.exe") . This programme does not need any install (so it does not appear on the K menu under the Wine section), it just has to be called via Wine.

How to proceed to create this shortcut ?

[dimesio]

How to proceed to create this shortcut ?

Add it to the KDE menu, then right click on the menu item to add it to your desktop.

If you don't know how to use the KDE menu editor, ask your distro. It's not a Wine question.

[landeel]

I made those scripts:

wine-extracticon

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#!/bin/bash
# wine-extracticon

echo Usage : wine-extracticon myapp.exe

MYFILE=$(readlink -f "$1")
shift
for i in $@; do MYFILE="$MYFILE $i"; done
MYBASENAME=$(basename "$( readlink -f "$MYFILE")")

echo "Extracting icon(s)..."
wrestool -x -t 14 "$MYFILE" > "/tmp/$MYBASENAME.ico"

echo Converting icon to PNG...
convert -alpha on "/tmp/$MYBASENAME.ico" "/tmp/$MYBASENAME.png"

#try to copy if there's only 1 icon
cp "/tmp/$MYBASENAME.png" "$MYFILE.icon.png"

#  the script will assume the best icon is the bigger one
echo Copy "$(ls -S -1 "/tmp/$MYBASENAME"*".png" | tac | tail -n 1)" to "$MYFILE.icon.png" ...
cp "$(ls -S -1 "/tmp/$MYBASENAME"*".png" | tac | tail -n 1)" "$MYFILE.icon.png"

echo "Done."

wine-createshortcut

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#!/bin/bash
# wine-createshortcut
# by Cleber de Mattos Casali   http://cmcgames.blogspot.com
#
# This script will create a .desktop shortcut for wine applications.

echo
echo wine-createshortcut
echo
echo by Cleber de Mattos Casali   http://cmcgames.blogspot.com

if [ $@ ]; then echo

echo Extract icon...
wine-extracticon "$@"

MYFILE=$(readlink -f "$1")
shift
for i in $@; do MYFILE="$MYFILE $i"; done
MYBASENAME=$(basename "$( readlink -f "$MYFILE")")
MYPATH=$(dirname "$( readlink -f "$MYFILE")")

CATEGORY=$(zenity --title "wine-createshortcut" --height=450 --list --radiolist --column " " --column "Categories" 0 AudioVideo 0 Audio 0 Video 0 Development 0 Education TRUE Game 0 Graphics 0 Network 0 Office 0 Settings 0 System 0 Utility  --text "Select a Category:")

APPNAME=$(zenity --title "wine-createshortcut" --text "Enter a name for your shortcut" --entry)

echo Create shortcut contents...
myshortcut="[Desktop Entry]"\\n"Exec=wine start /Unix \""$MYFILE"\""\\n"Name=$APPNAME"\\n"Path=$MYPATH"\\n"Type=Application"\\n"Categories=Application;$CATEGORY;"\\n"Icon="$MYFILE.icon.png""

echo Create .desktop file...
echo -e $myshortcut >"$MYFILE".desktop

echo Create links on desktop and applications menu...
ln -s "$MYFILE.desktop" "$HOME/Desktop/$MYBASENAME.desktop"
ln -s "$MYFILE.desktop" "$HOME/.local/share/applications/$MYBASENAME.desktop"

echo Done.

else echo; echo Usage : wine-createshortcut myapp.exe ; echo

fi