Gnome Shell

Launchers

To create a launcher for a custom application, you must create a .desktop file under /usr/share/applications, ~/.local/share/applications or ~/Desktop

As an example the next launcher is for Blender:

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Blender
Exec=/path/to/blender/executable
Icon=/path/to/blender/icon
Type=Application
Categories=Graphics;