As well as adding the launcher through the GUI as others have suggested, you can add them by hand (or programmatically) by adding the the appropriate .desktop file in your 'Desktop' directory. The files are similar to Windows .INI files and you might have something like: 

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Version=1.0
Type=Application
Exec=/home/jonathan/test/smtest
TryExec=
Icon=/usr/share/pixmaps/Brain.xpm
X-GNOME-DocPath=
Terminal=true
Name[en_GB]=Foo
GenericName[en_GB]=
Comment[en_GB]=

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Obviously substituting your own values. If for some reason you don't want to give your Perl program an executable mode you can prepend the path to perl in the Exec like just like you would at the command line.

/J\

In reply to Re: (OT) Creating Shortcut to Perl Applications in Gnome by gellyfish
in thread (OT) Creating Shortcut to Perl Applications in Gnome by ka1958

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