Icon Launcher + .jar file

[Derek Broughton]

Matthew Flaschen wrote:

> NoOp wrote:
>> Any link to documentation on this so that I understand better why you
>> need the java -jar command?
> 
> Basically, it's because JAR files neither contain native code that can
> be executed directly, nor a sha-bang (line  (like #!/bin/bash) as the
> first line.
> 
Neither do Zip or tar.gz files, which are quite similar to jars.  Yet KDE
has no trouble figuring out what to do with them.
-- 
derek