I was playing around with Wine the other day. It’s pretty cool that I can run Dreamweaver and Fireworks on Ubuntu with very few issues now.
One of the problems I did encounter was that the setup program for Dreamweaver wouldn’t run under wine, and the program files had to be copied across to my Linux system from an existing Windows installation.
Once done, it ran with no problems – but I now had to create the icon in the Applications menu.
Creating the menu entry was straightforward enough – I just copied the Fireworks link and edited it to work with Dreamweaver. The problem was that I really wanted the icon to sit nicely.
After scouring a few forums, it turned out that Ubuntu already had a set of programs available in the repositories called icoutils.
After working out what binaries were installed:
<code>dpkg -L icoutils</code>
I played around with some of the tools. I can’t remember exactly what I did, so I’ll just say play with the tools. You can extract ICOs easily from DLLs and executables, and save them as ICO files or other formats.
Once done, I had a pretty Dreamweaver icon that looked better than the Fireworks one that Wine extracted!
What’s even funnier is that to get a tool in Windows to do this kind of thing inevitably lead to using shareware.