Desktop entry creator

A user-friendly GUI for creating desktop entries for installed applications on Linux.

Installation

1. Install the required system packages:

   • Fedora and RHEL based distros:

     sudo dnf install python3-devel cairo cairo-devel python3-cairo gobject-introspection gobject-introspection-devel cairo-gobject cairo-gobject-devel
     

   • Ubuntu and Debian based distros:

     sudo apt install python3-dev libcairo2 libcairo-dev python3-cairo libgirepository-1.0-1 libgirepository1.0-dev libcairo-gobject2
     

2. Install using pip:

   pip install desktop-entry-creator
   

Development

1. Install the required system packages mentioned in the installation section.
2. Set up a Python 3 virtual environment using Pipenv:

   pipenv --three
   

3. Activate the virtual environment and install the dependencies:

   pipenv shell
   pipenv install --dev
   

4. Run app.py located under the desktop_entry_creator directory to launch the GUI:

   ./desktop_entry_creator/app.py
   

License

This project is licensed under the terms of the GPL v3 license.