Hi Ilan,
On Thu, 14 Feb 2013, Ilan Tal wrote:
> I have the launcher made from Plugins>Utilities>Create Desktop Icon
> running already some months here. I can drag it to the launcher bar and
> it will lock to it but it is more confusing than helpful. In practice I
> find it far better to just have the icon on the desktop and not on the
> launcher bar.
That is why I updated the script to make a better .desktop that will make
things less confusing.
All you have to do now is to update Fiji and run said command (in your
case *after* deleting Desktop/Fiji.desktop because the script will refuse
to overwrite it).
> The problem with dragging it to the launcher bar is that when you press
> on it, up comes an identical icon from the running Fiji.
That will be gone.
> As with any running program you can lock this to the launcher bar as
> well. Clicking on this when Fiji is running will do the expected thing:
> transfer the focus to the running Fiji program. After you close the
> program, since you locked it to the launcher bar it will remain there,
> but if you press on it nothing will happen, i.e. it won't launch Fiji.
That will be fixed, too.
> On the other hand if you press on the shortcut you dragged to the
> launcher bar, it will start another instance of Fiji, which is not the
> expected action of other programs on the launcher bar.
As will this.
> Since the 2 identical icons is confusing once Fiji starts to run, I prefer
> KISS (keep it simple, stupid) and leave a single Create Desktop Icon on the
> desktop and not on the launcher bar.
Well, the icon on the desktop will not be called "Create Desktop Icon" but
"Fiji Is Just ImageJ" instead. :-)
Seriously, give it a try...
Johannes
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