How to create a launcher for for JetBrains Gogland

Gogland was released as preview yesterday. And I, being new to Linux have problem making a launcher for it using .desktop file.

I have never created .desktop file before, and I am running Ubuntu 14.04

So, this is what I've got right now.

#!/usr/bin/env xdg-open

[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Type=Application
Terminal=false
Exec= cd /opt/Gogland/bin && ./gogland.sh
Name=Gogland
Comment=comment here
Icon=icon /opt/Gogland/bin/gogland.png

Permission is set to executable, and it is located in: ~/.local/share/applications

The problem is that I cannot seam to find the gogland in application launcher widget after reboot. To start a program I go to bin folder and execute gogland.sh

Solution 1:

You can try to create a desktop file similar to the rest of Jetbrains products, something like this:

[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Type=Application
Name=Gogland
Icon=/opt/Gogland/bin/gogland.png
Exec="/opt/Gogland/bin/gogland.sh" %f
Comment=The Golang IDE
Categories=Development;IDE;
Terminal=false
StartupWMClass=jetbrains-gogland

Anyway, Jetbrains IDE's usually comes with a builtin option to create launcher shortcut from its startup/initial screen. I think it's the best and simpler solution.