How to make a Desktop Shortcut

I got this from the Flock installation help. Flock is available as a gz package. And after extracting it, either by using the extract option in the context menu or by using the tar command, the following content can be used, after appropriate editing, to create a shortcut. Create a new text file and copy the following contents, edit paths, save as xxx.desktop.


[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Flock
Comment=Flock Web Browser
Exec="/home/qq/flock/flock"
GenericName=Flock Web Browser
Icon=/home/qq/flock/icons/mozicon128.png
Path=$HOME/flock
StartupNotify=true
Terminal=false
TerminalOptions=
Type=Application
X-KDE-SubstituteUID=false
X-KDE-Username=
Categories=Network;Application;
GenericName[en_US]=Flock Web Browser


PS. The shortcut may be functional but Flock would not run since it could not find a package libstdc++ 5. Strangely, the OS (Opensuse 10.3) shows that libstdc++.so.6 is already installed. The same issue dogs Opera installation