How can I shortcut a website into an application?

asked 2015-02-21 18:53:23 -0600

SirAnura
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Very new with all of this. Using Gnome 3.14.3 on Fedora 21. Not familiar with terminals one bit. I'm looking to turn favorite websites into an application as a shortcut to the specified url. I'm assuming it isn't an impossible feat. I know you can launch websites from the terminal using "xdg-open". Am I able to utilize this for what I'm looking to do or is there another way to go about it? What I'm thinking is making a .desktop file in usr/share/applications that will launch it and give it an icon using something like this as an example:

Type=Application Encoding=UTF-8 Name=Unreal Tournament 2004 Comment=Unreal Tournament 2004 Exec=/home/joe/Games/ut2004/ut2004 Icon=/home/joe/Downloads/ut2004.png Terminal=false

Can anybody help me make this a thing and provide the insight I need?

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answered 2015-02-22 03:15:29 -0600

Classic
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updated 2015-02-22 05:18:11 -0600

Try this (for example I will use Firefox browser & this site):

Open terminal;
Run cp /usr/share/applications/firefox.desktop ~/.local/share/applications/firefox-askfedora.desktop (it creates a copy of Firefox shortcut to your user applications shortcuts folder);
Run gedit ~/.local/share/applications/firefox-askfedora.desktop it will launch text editor, where you must change three lines like this:
- Name=AskFedora
- Exec=firefox http://ask.fedoraproject.org/
- Icon=applications-science
Logout from gnome-shell & Login;
Now you have AskFedora shortcut which is launching Firefox with this site opened. If Firefox already launched you'll get a new tab with AskFedora site.

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This is exactly what I was looking for. Thank you very much! Your specific example gave me everything I needed to make my own. I really do appreciate it. I also found out that the properties of the .desktop file can help with this as well.

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answered 2015-02-22 19:57:28 -0600

HoboPrimate

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Web (not installed by default by Fedora) allows you to save any page as a web app, and uses the favicon of the site as the application icon.

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Thank you for bringing this up as an alternative method.

SirAnura ( 2015-02-22 23:30:16 -0600 )edit

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