Make VLC widget on Meego desktop

**Damned 2** · 03-02-2011

I am using WeTab from past one week. Well its looks potentially great tablet computer. Well recently I have installed VLC from portablelinuxapps. Well it’s working awesome. However I have not found the way to make VLC as desktop widget. Well I tried with the usual way that is being use for Meego which is usr/share/applications did not work me at all. Now I am asking to all of you to give me a light shed on this matter. Your response will be highly appreciated. Thanks a lot in advance.

**Cruzz** · 03-02-2011

Well looking at the situation which you have mentioned above in your post. I think in this particular situation User Interface layer might be filtering the icons before it being display on the desktop. You have to check into which appear into key/value pars which look like ‘OnlyShowIn=’ or ‘NotShowIn=’ in to the .desktop file. You can browse to /usr/share/applications/ to get .desktop files.

**Odalis** · 03-02-2011

I am posting following solution which you can sue to solve the matter.Well you have to search the file using following command.

Code:

.appdata/tiitoo-pinnwand/tiitoo-localbookmarks/

For e.g. you are creating icon file for Thunderbird then use the following steps.Well using following command you can create new icon which a PNG file with 168x105 size.

Code:

cp Widget-Thunderbird.png .appdata/tiitoo-pinnwand/tiitoo-localbookmarks/
cd .appdata/tiitoo-pinnwand/tiitoo-localbookmarks/ 
sudo gedit thunderbird.desktop

Now paste the following code in to the file.

Code:

[Desktop%20Entry] 
Type=Application 
Icon=Widget-Thunderbird.png 
Exec=thunderbird

I am hoping that it will help you to solve the matter. Thanks a lot for using my suggestion.

**Abenaki** · 03-02-2011

Well I am having solution for this particular situation to meet the requirements of yours.You have to create new shortcut for the particular application in a way that it makes new internal child node which is stored into following file.

Code:

exo-desktop-item-edit -c ~/.appdata/tiitoo-pinnwand/tiitoo-localbookmarks/

Now search for any suitable PNG file. You can search at the following file location.

Code:

cd ~/.appdata/tiitoo-pinnwand/tiitoo-localbookmarks

Now you have to copy desired PNG file and do the following changes into .desktop file.

Code:

[Desktop%20Entry]
Type=Application
Icon=Widget-dosbox.png
Exec=dosbox

Now from the terminal you have to run the following code.

Code:

sudo killall tiitoo-pinnwand

Well using this command you will see a new icon the desktop of your computer.

**Cruzz** · 05-02-2011

I want to say thank you to all of you for replying with solution in order to solve the query of mine. Well I have tried with all the solutions which are posted in this thread. However it did not help me to solve the issue of mine. Well please let me know if you are having any other solution to overcome from this particular situation. Anyway I want to appreciate your efforts that you have put in. I am waiting for your reply.