Shortcut for processing in Ubuntu 13.10 and Unity

vardaloupas

Ι Installed rocessing in the Ubuntu 13.10 but I have to open it from console, is any instractions to create a shortcut to Unity.

hamoid

I have ~/.local/share/applications/processing.desktop which contains:

[Desktop Entry]
Name=Processing
Comment=Processing
Exec=launchProcessingFile %F
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Icon=processing
Categories=GNOME;Graphics;
StartupNotify=true

Then somewhere in my path (you can find which folders are in your path typing echo $PATH in your terminal) I have an executable script (I have it on ~/bin/launchProcessingFile)

#!/bin/bash
/home/YOURUSERNAME/Desktop/edu/processing-2.1/processing "$1"

To make the script executable you can type chmod +x launchProcessingFile. The second line in this script must point to the right processing folder.

Then I can start Processing from Unity and double click sketches.

I think I also added the icon somehow to one of the system folders...

Cheers!

hamoid

Ah yes, I copied the icon from processing-2.1/lib/icons/pde-48.png to /usr/share/pixmaps/processing.png

GoToLoop

Categories=GNOME;Graphics;

"Graphics" category? Shoulda been "Programming"! It's not GIMP or Photoshop! >:)

vardaloupas

[Desktop Entry]
Name=Processing
Comment=Processing
Exec=launchProcessingFile %F
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Icon=processing
Categories=GNOME;Programming;
StartupNotify=true

Do you think is the correct?

GoToLoop

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Version=1.0
Name=Processing 2
Name[en_US]=Processing 2
Comment=Processing
Comment[en_US]=Processing
Type=Application
Categories=Programming
Exec=/home/goto/processing-2.0.2/processing %F
Icon=/home/goto/processing-2.0.2/lib/icons/pde-512.png
Terminal=false
StartupNotify=true

hamoid

Categories=GNOME;Graphics;

"Graphics" category? Shoulda been "Programming"! It's not GIMP or Photoshop!

I just copy-pasted the .desktop file without reading any tutorials about how to create one or the meaning of Categories :)

By the way, I was using a .desktop file + a script, and it seems you only use a .desktop file that calls processing directly. Is that sufficient to be able to double click on .pde files and get them opened in Processing?

GoToLoop

Is that sufficient to be able to double click on .pde files and get them opened in Processing?

Yup! Exec= is the most important part! :-j

Categories= is only important when a shortcut goes to the main menu, so it is organized in its right place! :bz