Question concerning creating .exe shorcuts.

r2rX · Post by **r2rX** » Tue Jun 12, 2012 8:16 am

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

Post by **dimesio** » Tue Jun 12, 2012 8:28 am

r2rX wrote: So how I can create the same type of shortcut which will use the .exe's inbuilt icon; as Wine does?

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

r2rX · Post by **r2rX** » Tue Jun 12, 2012 9:54 am

Thanks for the response, dimesio.

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

r2rX

r2rX · Post by **r2rX** » Tue Jun 12, 2012 10:05 am

Hey guys,

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

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wrestool --raw 'file'.exe --output=/path/to/extract/

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

So that's definitely some progress.

r2rX

Bruno Jesus · Post by **Bruno Jesus** » Tue Jun 12, 2012 10:13 am

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

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

r2rX · Post by **r2rX** » Wed Jun 13, 2012 5:34 am

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

KenSharp · Post by **KenSharp** » Wed Jun 13, 2012 11:42 am

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

jjmckenzie · Post by **jjmckenzie** » Wed Jun 13, 2012 11:52 am

On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 6:16 AM, r2rX <[email protected]> wrote:

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).

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

r2rX · Post by **r2rX** » Thu Jun 14, 2012 6:18 am

jjmckenzie wrote:On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 6:16 AM, r2rX <[email protected]> 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