How to (auto?)mount a disk image file

[Tom H]

On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 3:10 PM, Christian Jaeger <chrjae at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I've got 16 years of full-time Linux experience as a developer, and at
> times the difference between that and someone you're trying to help
> who doesn't understand the shell is difficult to bridge.
>
> So at one point I made a backup of one of his disks, using ddrescue.
> Now he needed access to that backup. It includes multiple partitions
> in the single file. I know I can mount it with kpartx and mount, and
> have made a script doing that. But even asking him to open a Howto
> document that tells him to open a Terminal and enter "sudo
> /opt/local/sbin/mount-backup" is making him thow up his hands about
> how complicated this is.

WAG: Can't you create a ".desktop" file for the above command so that
he can simply double-click it?