Desktop Entries for the software

All desktop entries are files named file.desktop, which are basically text files that point to a script and an image, to be shown in the Desktop of the Raspberry Pi and ease general software usage through quick access to the GUIs. These files have been stored in the folder desktop_entries and look like this:

[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Comment=flowGUI
Name=flowGUI
Exec=python3 /home/pi/homecage_quantification/GUI.py
Icon=/home/pi/homecage_quantification/docs_img/flow_logo.png
Terminal=true
Categories=Utility
StartupNotify=true

The general idea is to copy these files into the Desktop folder in each Raspberry (hopefully someday implemented in setup.sh). We can also do this manually or from the terminal as below (example shown for flowGUI.desktop).

cp /home/pi/homecage_quantification/desktop_entries/flowGUI.desktop  /home/pi/Desktop/flowGUI.desktop

Dialog asking to execute

When you put entries into Desktop and try to open the files, you will receive a notification asking whether you want to actually open it or execute it on terminal. This is the behavior by default in Raspbian. We always want to execute so we can go and change that in the preferences. To do so:

In Filemanager

[Edit] --> [Preferences] --> [General]

[x] Don't ask options on launch executable file

Here's how the dialogue looks like