Setting up a desk top entry for Dash Core in Linux KDE

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Lowdell

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Hello,
This is my first entry here.
I have managed to install Dash Core on my KDE Plasma system. The guide was of some help but I had to find work arounds as the commands there were not working for me for some reason. i guess the guide is mainly for Ubuntu users.
I am now at the point where I want to install an icon on the desktop so i can easily open the Dash core app. I'm now stuck here.
The installation guide says:

Setting up a desktop entry​

You can set up an XDG Desktop Entry in order to be able to launch Dash Core from your KDE or Gnome desktop environment. To do so, create a file named ~/.local/share/applications/dash.desktop and add the following content:

[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.5
Name=Dash Core
Comment=Dash Core is used to interact with the Dash blockchain
Exec=/usr/local/bin/dash-qt
Icon=dash-icon
Terminal=false
Type=Application

I don't know how to create this file ~/.local/share/applications/dash.desktop mentioned above or to add the contents to it and would appreciate some help please. It seems basic stuff but I am really new to KDE Plasma and command lines.

Many thanks
 
Okay, I've finally figured it out by sheer fluke.
Open Kate - Advanced Text editor- and create and paste the above mentioned content into it. Save it in the folder /usr/share/applications. To execute the file don't use the command line suggested in the guide; it didn't work for me. Just double click the file in the folder and choose the Execute button. That's it the file appears as a flat icon in the Application Launcher under Lost and Found.
Now I did download the icon as per the guide using the command line and it does seem that it has downloaded it. The plain icon in the Application Launcher but without an icon. I don't know how to resolve this one. It would be nice to see an icon on the Launcher.
 
Thought I'll post the output from the konsole. Maybe someone can see what has gone wrong and advise accordingly.

name@debian:~$ wget https://media.dash.org/wp-content/uploads/dash-d-rounded-square-250.png
xdg-icon-resource install --size 256 dash-d-rounded-square-250.png dash-icon
--2025-01-20 16:20:20-- https://media.dash.org/wp-content/uploads/dash-d-rounded-square-250.png
Resolving media.dash.org (media.dash.org)... 3.165.232.50, 3.165.232.67, 3.165.232.52, ...
Connecting to media.dash.org (media.dash.org)|3.165.232.50|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 4140 (4.0K) [image/png]
Saving to: ‘dash-d-rounded-square-250.png’
 
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