desktop icons in Breezy

[Frank McCormick]

On Wed, 05 Oct 2005 13:41:39 -0400
Seth Hasani <sepheebear at gmail.com> wrote:

> <quote who="Frank McCormick" on Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 10:52:54PM EDT>
> 
> > I am trying to put an icon om my desktop for Python -
> > I have tried "/usr/bin/rxvt-xterm -e /usr/bin/python" and many other
> > variations but none works.
> > If i bring up a terminal and type python or python2.4 it works. Why
> > won't it work from an icon on the DT ?? 
> 
> Both these launchers work fine for me from the desktop:
> 
> #### Python launcher using gnome-terminal ####
> $ cat Desktop/python.desktop
> 
>     [Desktop Entry]
>     Comment=Python Shell
>     Name=Python
>     Exec=python
>     Encoding=UTF-8
>     Terminal=true
>     Type=Application
>     Icon=python2.4-32.xpm
> 
> #### Python launcher using rxvt ####
> $ cat Desktop/rxvt.desktop
> 
>     [Desktop Entry]
>     Comment=Python Shell
>     Name=Python
>     Exec=rxvt -e python
>     Encoding=UTF-8
>     Terminal=false
>     Type=Application
>     Icon=python2.4-32.xpm
> 

After looking at your example I came to the conclusion terminal has to
be false IF some terminal other than Gnome-Terminal is used. Then it
works. But when the icon is created you don't get the chance to set
terminal to false. You have to go in and edit the file.
I started off by right clicking the Debian menu entry to place an icon
on the desktop. Thats when I discovered the icon it puts on the
desktop doesn't work.  Is this a bug ???

Cheers

Frank