Re: Desktop shortcuts?

On Wed, 2002-07-24 at 16:23, Kurt Savegnago wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>   Am a Slack user since '94 and have one little problem with gnome.
> I like to impress WinBlows users with the different X windows frontends
> Gnome, KDE, windowmaker and such as it CLEARLY shows the superiority
> of Linux/FreeBSD. (ie. one is not tied to one X windows frontend.)
>   With KDE one right clicks and can make a short cut to the desktop
> of an executable.  Like I want to stick GIMP on the desktop, just rt. click
> type in the executable, name and the icon and am done.
>   I have a big fat gnome book that talks about typing in the data a' la
> winblow 3.1 style but there has to be an easier way.  Can someone point
> me to the help file as I have looked and done an online search.
> 
> 				Best regards,
> 				Kurt Savegnago

One method is drag-from-menu. Or, symlink to the executable.