How to get icons working(netbook-launcher desktop) for self-compiled apps.

[Johnny Rosenberg]

2009/7/28 Luis Maceira <luis_a_maceira at yahoo.com>:
>
> I recently compiled twinkle phone from sources I downloaded from its website.
> I installed under my home directory,now I want it to appear on my Ubuntu
> Netbook-launcher Desktop,like a Ubuntu application(Firefox etc. when we
> click on the icon it grows and launches the application).
> I have under my twinkle/share directory a file named twinkle.desktop and
> 3 png images of the twinkle logo,is it enough to put them under any other
> directory of Ubuntu to emulate an original Ubuntu app,and it to appear(icon)
> on the Netbook-launcher desktop and when we click it grows and launches
> the application?

I'm not exactly sure what you are after, but have you tried to right
click the desktop and select ”Create starter…” (or something like
that; I run Ubuntu in Swedish…)? Then you can assign your own icon
(could be a picture of any kind) to it.

Johnny Rosenberg