[SOLVED] How can I add a program launcher icon to the desktop for a java app?

[SteveTaylor]

I have done this in earlier version of KDE but it the latest Kubuntu 14.04 I can't seem to find a way to create a desktop icon to launch a java app.
Specifically I can use "java -jar /home/steve/Arachnophilia.jar" to launch the program from the command line.

I created a file Arachnophilia.desktop with the following contents:
[Desktop Entry]
Comment[en_US]=Website Editor
Comment=Website Editor
Exec=java -jar /home/steve/Arachnophilia.jar
GenericName[en_US]=
GenericName=
Icon=/home/steve/Arachnophilia.png
MimeType=
Name[en_US]=Arachnophilia
Name=Arachnophilia
Path=/home/steve/Web Pages/
StartupNotify=false
Terminal=false
TerminalOptions=
Type=Application
Version=1.0
X-DBUS-ServiceName=
X-DBUS-StartupType=
X-KDE-SubstituteUID=false
X-KDE-Username=
I placed the file in ~/Desktop/ and set it executable, but it is not showing up on my desktop.
What do I need to do?

[GreyGeek]

http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Kubuntu:Trusty

Add Menu items to Desktop or Panel

To copy a program icon to the desktop or panel bar, you must first unlock widgets:

Widget icon (upper right corner of desktop) -> Unlock Widgets (or right mouse anywhere on desktop and select "unlock widgets")
then right-click on any menu item in the K menu and select "Add to Desktop" or "Add to Panel". You can move the icon anywhere you desire and then re-lock the widgets.
For example, I like to have the icon for Konsole (the command-line interface terminal) in my Panel bar (since I like to work in the command-line interface frequently). I therefore right-click on K menu -> System -> Konsole then choose "Add to Panel".

Rather than adding a app shortcut to the desktop (which is often covered by apps) or to the panel (which has space restrictions), I add the plasma widget "QuickLauncher" to the panel and then right mouse in it and choose "Add Application" (or remove, etc..) I keep about 12 of my most commonly used apps in the quicklauncher, but I have room for three times that many, if not more.

[Rog132]

With the KDE Menu Editor - 1 2 3

From the KDE Menu editor Hadbook:

KMenuEdit allows editing the menu of KDE application launchers: Kickoff, classic K menu or Lancelot Launcher.
KMenuEdit can be started either by right mouse button clicking the application launcher button on the panel and choosing Edit Applications..., or by typing kmenuedit in the KRunner line.

1) Making a menu entry:



2) Right clicking the desktop and unlocking the widgets:



3) Drag&Drop the menu item from the K-Menu to the Desktop






The Weather java is from : http://java-apps.org/content/show.ph...content=164166

[SteveTaylor]

Yes, thank you, that did the trick. I see now that I was going about it from the wrong end. You create a menu item first, then it is just a matter of adding it to the desktop just like any other program launcher.

[GreyGeek]

Cool weather program, Rog!
I just downloaded it from http://sourceforge.net/projects/pavi...4.jar/download