A bash script and KDE service menu option for generating desktop shortcuts for Windows executables on Linux.
- Input: full path to the executable.
- Output: directory to place the shortcut. By default it is set to the user's desktop folder.
icoutils - https://github.com/rwmjones/icoutils
Run the file install.sh, or copy the source contents to ~/.local/share/kservices5/mkexeshortcut.
To install for all users, copy the contents to /usr/share/kservices5/mkexeshortcut instead.
Several locales are supported for the translation of the context menu option and for the generated desktop shortcut comment. Most translations were added according to Google Translate results, which may be innacurate, but an effort was made to make sure they are correctly in the context. If you spot any translation mistakes, please report and it will be corrected. You are also free to request the addition of new localizations.
The currently supported locales are:
- ar - Arabic
- cs - Czech
- da - Danish
- de - German
- el - Greek
- en - English
- es - Spanish
- fi - Finnish
- fr - French
- it - Italian
- hi - Hindi
- hu - Hungarian
- hy - Armenian
- id - Indonesian
- is - Icelandic
- lt - Lithuanian
- nl - Dutch
- pl - Polish
- pt - Portuguese
- ru - Russian
- sv - Swedish
- th - Thai
- uk - Ukrainian
- vi - Vietnamese
- zh - Chinese (Traditional)
Copyright (C) 2023 Helena Beatrice Xavier Pedro
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
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