INSTALLATION of GNOME compliant programs...

Ei. i'm just new to linux and i'm getting help installing programs in linux 
mostly from reference books... and the book isntructs that installing 
programs is using the "tar" command and then after that "./configure" on the 
directory created by tar... and then "make install" right? now  to run the 
program i need to execute the script of that program in a TErminal window...

But i want to make an entry in the Gnome Programs Menu, (icon entry), so 
that I can just click on that icon everytime i want to run a program.. i 
don't have to manually type the script in a shell...

another question if i installed the program, by "make install", isn't the 
program and other files will be copied to the usr/bin directory?

Also, when i save the source file (.tar.gz file) in my home directory.. so 
everytime i execute the tar command, it generates a new subdirectory on my 
home directory... can i delete that subdirectory after installing?




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