How can I create launcher icon for PhpStorm?

Question

I have PhpStorm on my PC, to launch it I have to go to phpstorm/bin/ and launch phpstorm.sh, how can I pin this to launcher so that I dont have to go into folders every time?

Answer 1

You need to create a application launcher first.

Installing gnome-panel

 sudo apt-get install --no-install-recommends gnome-panel

To create launcher

sudo gnome-desktop-item-edit /usr/share/applications/ --create-new

This will open up a "Create Launcher" window

Type: Application
Name: PhpStorm
Command: /bin/bash path_to/phpstorm.sh
Comment: Any Comment

This will create a launcher file in /usr/share/applications directory. Now double click and open the file.

Once the file is launched. You can see the process in the unity launcher. Right click on the icon in the unity launcher and click "Lock to Launcher"

Alternatively you can create a .desktop file

Found this .desktop file here. I haven't tested it. Try your luck.

[Desktop Entry]                                                                  
Version=4.0.1                                                                   
Type=Application                                                                
Name=JetBrains PhpStorm                                                         
Exec=/opt/PhpStorm/bin/phpstorm.sh %f                                           
Icon=/opt/PhpStorm/bin/webide.png                                               
Comment=Develop with pleasure!                                                  
Categories=Development;IDE;                                                     
Terminal=false                                                                  
StartupNotify=true                                                              
StartupWMClass=jetbrains-phpstorm  

Answer 2

Run "Tools" — "Create Desktop Entry" in top menu of IDE.