Is there a way to pin any binary?

micheleg / dash-to-dock

A dock for the Gnome Shell. This extension moves the dash out of the overview transforming it in a dock for an easier launching of applications and a faster switching between windows and desktops.

https://micheleg.github.io/dash-to-dock/

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Is there a way to pin any binary? #670

Open f3flight opened 6 years ago

f3flight commented 6 years ago

Right now dock seems to only allow pinning apps which are defined via .desktop (or generally visible in app manager). I cannot put my custom script there, for ex. I also cannot put Unity there (https://unity3d.com/), because their latest installer just extracts artifacts, without setting up the app icon, etc. Is there any change to allow pinning any file to dock, and let file manager decide on how to open it (ie. executable -> execute; otherwise open in default app)?

micheleg commented 6 years ago

Hi, this is an upstream "issue" and you should probably report it there. That said, I think that the easiest solution is creating a .desktop file for your script/executable.