To Add an Application Icon to an Existing Application Group

This procedure explains how to add an application icon to an existing application group.

For example, the desktop provides an application group named System_Admin that has been reserved for various applications and scripts related to administering systems. If you have a script that users frequently run, you might want users to be able to run the script by double-clicking an icon in the System_Admin application group.

1. Use Create Action to create an action definition for the application.

   For more information about Create Action, see Chapter 11, Creating Actions and Data Types Using Create Action.

2. Create an executable file with the same name as the action name in the directory for the application group. The content of the file is irrelevant.

   For example, if you've created an action named “Cleanup” that runs a system administration tool, you would create the executable file:

   /etc/dt/appconfig/appmanager/language/System_Admin/Cleanup