A nautilus extension providing an advanced dialog in order to create a launcher (.desktop file) for any file.
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Right-click on a file, click on the "Create a launcher" menu item
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Give a name to the launcher. If the file isn't executable, you should use the type "Link" instead of "Application" (it will not be displayed in menus)
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Optionally a short description and a list of categories and keywords
- Select an icon
- Install the package
python-nautilus
(it's its name on Debian at least). - Download the code, make
install.sh
executable, and execute it. - Quit (and restart) Nautilus, and then it should works.