[plug] gnome program launchers

[Peter J. Nicol]

> Creating icons on the desktop for gnome is a black art!  I edit an
> existing ~user/.gnome-desktop/shell.desktop file and save under a new
> name - by the time I have exited the editor, the desktop has re-read the
> directory and its there. Some times I get weird problems and have to
> delete, and recreate an otherwise identical desktop file for things to
> work!  Also, you do have the "#!/bin/sh" or similar line as the top line
> of your shell program?

yep, I have #!/bin/sh

and no, nothing so far has worked ...