-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Am 17.01.2015 um 00:35 schrieb Alex Regan: > Hi, > > I have a fedora21 desktop that I'm building for my father-in-law > and have installed gnome-tweak-tool to enable icons on the desktop. > Now, I'd like to add an icon on the desktop to automatically start > a qemu instance of windows7. I'd even settle for an icon that > opens virt-manager in such a way as to be able to start the > instance. > > How about adding it to the menu that appears when you move the > mouse all the way to the left? > > I found this link at gnome.org but I can't believe that it's still > this hard for an end-user (my father-in-law) to add links to his > own programs? > > https://developer.gnome.org/integration-guide/stable/desktop-files.html.en Sorry > that I can't help you with this particular problem. (I'm using XFCE/dwm) But maybe you could use the gnome-fallback mode. > Maybe there's a desktop that isn't so deficient? > Or maybe you want to try another desktop environment like Mate or Cinnamon. They look quite like Windows and I think your father-in-law can work with them without any big help from you. XFCE could also be a choice. Adding shortcuts to the desktop is quite easy. - --Erik -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJUuaPVAAoJEG+l8sBmqru1uxQP/0aaH6pT8YjWdvess8clIett i9OpXVytsaaZUVwz0RG2mqO9OowIcDUWgoLiMD4cDSk2iAQ871KNnAD+A45xBlkn OU4ewFZ/eiQsKegAPfOUGeA6tvnV+hrOrijFc87mEJoBDdUJ/135yiQrCkvhX311 UGit5NNSnb1cQKuE+So274yUyEjraPHEdG/XbnRuATzv5TVQi1J//Lzp8Eofl2U8 ZW4O92qio+2xzavFPhW5SPbWhgxKhYa8va3wd3r0ln0roXKrZ+cI4xTz8SQHH3jL zbOJYxPqek2MY9W54JE0mmAK1b6/8uLmF1ogA+9fwe9mxwj+/cDU+LXEafLJS3AN 30S226Te9o7/bvSR101HKlnQr4c6kYm8xfOFsK5noRFxfgndJggvHVIDBidKjd0H lZk21fIzg7X/GPCjjY1hamzhH75xV6jFT/TrnrRbWemGbiPXLVprp0lUCWiaco9L XX9u1Nu54W8AMkY7ujrVSZdrT0yHat+dqrrLSYQEN+prCRJnBxZRY4rqOeX/jwdW GlIMl+yCh1BsKlWxzHb0vzGxD3H0C9lojyWStzPKBebXFi7LnTXiDA6huiBiUfgc jTW1gU5LDk8IcGkuPyERkChNkxb6Xu1xU/fpYM4ykWJJfI2nTZzLdUbosU8DHLzF lbdK3tuRAMte/TV38g8j =D7N5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org