[not problem] link creation for Wine questions

[FYR]

right, so if I install programs and they create Desktop links,
Wine will create those links and actually use the program's ICO.

how can I do this manually?

TIA.

[Martin Gregorie]

On Sun, 2009-03-29 at 05:04 -0500, FYR wrote:

right, so if I install programs and they create Desktop links,
Wine will create those links and actually use the program's ICO.

how can I do this manually?

For a Gnome desktop you right click on the desktop, select "Create
launcher" and then fill in the dialogue box.

You can change the launcher later by right-clicking the icon, selecting
'Properties' and using the tabbed dialogue.


Martin

[FYR]

..... thanks for replying...... my bad though, should've mentioned I was running KDE.

[vitamin]

..... thanks for replying...... my bad though, should've mentioned I was running KDE.

Same thing only "Create New" -> "Link to Application".

[FYR]

dudes.
I'm not asking how to create a Desktop shortcut.....
I'm asking how to "get" the Win app's Icon and use it.

Wine does this automatically when you install something, and that something creates Desktop shortcuts. i.e. you install Counter-Strike and guess what, there's a link to Counter-Strike on the desktop with a tiny little Special Forces man wielding a submachine gun.. and you think for a second, "what Operating System am I in?" or maybe not, if you aren't thick. but you probably are, because you're just going to play Counter-Strike!
BOOM HEADSHOT!

OK.
anyone got any ideas?

[fcmartins]

>I'm asking how to "get" the Win app's Icon and use it.

I don't know about KDE, but I think it also uses the same .desktop launcher files. So, in the terminal, go to Desktop folder, do ls, a just cat the .desktop file you want. In there, you'll see the location of the icon, typically stored under ~/local/share/icons.

[vitamin]

dudes.
I'm not asking how to create a Desktop shortcut.....
I'm asking how to "get" the Win app's Icon and use it.

Properly asked question is 1/2 the answer.

Wine has program winemenubuilder that extracts icon and converts it to usable format. However it does that based on information from .lnk file. You can't ask it to just extract an icon.

[FYR]

thank you vitamin -- although, not to be insolent, I believe I was clear in the first post.
winemenubuilder, eh? cool.

EDIT: hmmm? there's no such app. OK did I misread something again?

[vitamin]

EDIT: hmmm? there's no such app. OK did I misread something again?

And the question is?

[fcmartins]

from google: http://wiki.winehq.org/winemenubuilder