[CLUE-Tech] Adding Desktop Icon under Gnome

[David Willson]

Ah.  This is funny.  I answered on basis of my experience with Red Hat 7.1,
and the behavior is different under Red Hat 7.2.  There is no longer a
New>Launcher... in the right-click menu.  Drag/drop or copy/paste seems to
be the only option now, but you can still customize the icon and stuph.

-----Original Message-----
From: clue-tech-admin at clue.denver.co.us
[mailto:clue-tech-admin at clue.denver.co.us]On Behalf Of BOF
Sent: Thursday, 06 December, 2001 01:31
To: clue-tech at clue.denver.co.us
Subject: Re: [CLUE-Tech] Adding Desktop Icon under Gnome


>
>
>Thus spoke David Willson
>
>>Is this a trick question?
>>
No, it isn't. At the time I posed it, I could not find any mention of
how to put an icon on the desktop to launch a program:  the Gnome user's
guide is not installed under Slackware or FreeBSD, there are no
Gnome-specific USENET groups, and the link to the User Guide on the
Gnome site would not come up. I was desperate and so turned to CLUE.

And I am still having problems. Currently, the only way that I can get
an icon onto the desktop, as a user, is to create a launcher on the
panel and then drag it to the desktop, or, if the application is on the
menu, to drag it from the menu to the desktop. When I right-click on the
desktop, there is no choice for a launcher: I get a selection of "New
Window, New Folder, or New Terminal."

Even then, dragging from the panel does not always work. I have a
launcher for Netscape on the panel that works fine, but when dragged to
the desktop, it will not load the application, or do anything for that
matter.

I am also having trouble getting the icons I place on the desktop to
come up when Gnome starts. I can get them to show up by launching
Nautilus after Gnome loads, but when Gnome initially loads, the desktop
is blank.

After fiddling with Gnome for several days now, I am not very impressed
with it. Apparently the paradigm it expects its users to follow is not
the same as KDE or Windows. Either that, or I have a faulty installation
or have something configured wrong.

Which is always possible <g>.

BOF


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