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[Ralf Mardorf]

On Sat, 2015-06-27 at 05:13 -0500, Joshua Robinson wrote:
> 2. How to create a soft link to a program on the Desktop without 
> creating a folder ?

$ cd ~/Desktop
$ ln -s /usr/bin/true desktop_icon_name
$ ln -s ~/Desktop/ desktop_icon_name_2
$ ls -hAl
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 rocketmouse rocketmouse 13 Jun 27 12:41 desktop_icon_name -> /usr/bin/true
lrwxrwxrwx 1 rocketmouse rocketmouse 26 Jun 27 12:43 desktop_icon_name_2 -> /home/rocketmouse/Desktop/

I don't use a desktop, so to see icons I need to take a look with a
file manager. SpaceFM shows a folder for the link to the Desktop folder
and a binary icon for the link to /usr/bin/true. It likely depends on
the target what icon is used. If I use Rodent instead of SpaceFM it's
the same. IOW assumed the target is a "program", the icon likely
automagically is a binary icon and if the target is a folder, the icon
is a folder icon.

JFTR even

$ ln -s /usr/bin/qupzilla Qt_version_of_Firefox

get's a binary icon. If you want to get the icon of QupZilla instead,
then you need to add a launcher or what ever it's named by the used
desktop environment. For KDE likely plasma-launcher-thingy :D.