add Qt Creator to Select Application Menu (Ubuntu)

JacobNovitsky

derived from: https://forum.qt.io/topic/153273/building-qt-creator-from-source/17

Ubuntu, Jammy Fish

building from source all set and done:
I can call my app with /home/j/Downloads/qtcreator_build/bin/qtcreator, I've set desktop file which can be open with Command "type qt", I can add to shorcut favorites tab as well, but If I open my cpp or h files I can not select qt in Select Application list!

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Pl45m4

@JacobNovitsky

Just search/browse for your application path... it should be where you've built QtCreator.

If this doesn't work
Check:

https://help.ubuntu.com/stable/ubuntu-help/files-open.html.en

Btw: Building in "Downloads" might not be the best idea. If you clear your download directory some day cause it's full of other junk, your QtCreator is gone.

ChrisW67

@JacobNovitsky Qt Creator would be in the applications list, with appropriate file type associations, if you had used the Online Installer (i.e. a desktop file is put in the right place). Beyond that, this is not a function that Qt is involved in.

This is what the desktop file should look like:

[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Exec="/home/j/Downloads/qtcreator_build/bin/qtcreator" %F
Name=Qt Creator
GenericName=The IDE of choice for Qt development.
Icon=QtProject-qtcreator
StartupWMClass=qtcreator
Terminal=false
Categories=Development;IDE;Qt;
MimeType=text/x-c++src;text/x-c++hdr;text/x-xsrc;application/x-designer;application/vnd.qt.qmakeprofile;application/vnd.qt.xml.resource;text/x-qml;text/x-qt.qml;text/x-qt.qbs;

Desktop files live in ~/.local/share/applications

PRO files can be problematic because they are variously treated as generic text, MATLAB, or other files by default.

JacobNovitsky

@ChrisW67 said in add Qt Creator to Select Application Menu (Ubuntu):

Type=Application
Exec="/home/j/Downloads/qtcreator_build/bin/qtcreator" %F
Name=Qt Creator
GenericName=The IDE of choice for Qt development.
Icon=QtProject-qtcreator
StartupWMClass=qtcreator
Terminal=false
Categories=Development;IDE;Qt;
MimeType=text/x-c++src;text/x-c++hdr;text/x-xsrc;application/x-designer;application/vnd.qt.qmakeprofile;application/vnd.qt.xml.resource;text/x-qml;text/x-qt.qml;text/x-qt.qbs;

opened :) thanks

Last thing: how to delete dummy kit (Desktop) ?

ChrisW67

@JacobNovitsky It is auto-detected by Qt Creator and will come back even if you managed to delete it in (Edit > Preferences > Kits). Removing it in preferences will not remove it from existing projects.

Just ignore it. Don't use it if you do not want to.