a desktop icon?

[edlynn]

Hello All-

 

OK, I give up.. How do I create a shortcut to my Gmail page(account) from the Desktop, System Tray, or

Quick Launch???

 

Is there an icon lurking somewhere waiting to be lifted and renamed as a shortcut? The Notifier envelope doesn't cut it.

 

Currently, I have to go to Google and querry for Gmail, and then click on the suggestion. I seem to be missing some intelligence(on this matter).

 

Any known better way to zip to the home page?  Thanks.

 

ED

[Jason Burroughs]

You could just grab http://gmail.google.com/favicon.ico (the little
red envelope icon) and use that for a Quick Launch icon. Or, if you
really wanted, you could grab the gmail logo and extract a larger red
envelope from there.

--
Jason Burroughs
jbu...@vt.edu

[peter]

ya if you want one go here, he has a gmail program to put a
icon on desktop, BUT it launches IE for the browser but
still is ok

http://www.bustercollings.com/freeware/

[peter]

One easyway is to bookmark the login page and get there that way
then save the page to desktop and make a icon, you can
download one

[edlynn]

Peter -

Your suggestion has merit, I believe. However, I am not adept enough to
initiate this procedure.

Can you "step-by-step" me to perform the solution without stumbling?

If you feel that it will be boring to others, be welcome to doing it
off-group. Thanks.

ED

[peter]

first of all what browser do you use most the time, is it
Internet exsplorer or do you use mozilla or firefox?

[cbf]

Hi Peter,
this sounds very interesting. I have been looking for a way to make an
Icon for my computer illiterate but wonderful wife. If she could push
an Icon that would start Mozilla Firefox and go to her favored news
page http://newsbot.dk/ would maybe get her her more intested in using
OUR computer! Unfortunately i have the same problem as edlyn. As you
maybe guessed we are located in the old country of Denmark.
Regards Chris

[Greg Ritter]

It's easy to create a desktop shortcut to any page.

Browse to a web page.
Drag and drop the URL's icon (the icon in the address/location field
just to the left of the URL) to the desktop.

That's it. Done.

You can also drag and drop the URL icon to the Quick Launch bar as well.

The System Tray in Windows is not for shortcuts. The icons you see
there are actually for applications/tools that are running in the
background. They are not shortcuts.

[edlynn]

Yes, thanks, but in the case of Gmail, it's the Blue E. Now the question is
how to change out of that icon?

ED
----- Original Message -----
From: "Greg Ritter" <greg....@gmail.com>
To: <Gmail...@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, February 05, 2005 6:54 AM
Subject: [Gmail-Users] Re: a desktop icon?


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[edlynn]

I use IE6

ED


----- Original Message -----
From: "peter" <ptmi...@gmail.com>
To: <Gmail...@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Friday, February 04, 2005 11:51 PM
Subject: [Gmail-Users] Re: a desktop icon?


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[Derek]

if you set the default browser to firefox you won't have the 'e'
shortcut icon. you'll have the firefox icon. you can even take it a
little further and change the icon after setting the icon on the
desktop.

[edlynn]

How do I change the icon once it's on the desktop? - (without changeing my
default browser)I use IE, not Firefox.

[Greg Ritter]

It's showing the Internet Explorer icon because it's a shortcut to a
file/page that will be launched in Internet Explorer. That's how
shortcuts work. For example, if you created a shortcut to a Word doc,
you'd get the Word icon.

You can change the icon, though. First, you'll need to have the icon
you want. I'll leave it up to you to figure out what Icon you want to
use.

Right-click on the shortcut (either on the Desktop or in the Launch
Bar) and choose properties from the context menu.
Click on the Web Document tab (it would be the Shortcut tab, if it
were a shortcut to a file or application, but Windows uses Web
Document for a URL shortcut)
Click on the Change Icon button.
Browse to the icon file you want to use (or select one of the default
shell icons or browse to an .exe file that you want to lift an icon
from)

That last approach might be your best. E.g. you can browse to
gnotify.exe (the Gmail Notifier application) in your Program Files
directory, and use the icon set from that. It appears as a large blue
(instead of red) Gmail logo on the Desktop, and as a small blue
envelope in the launch bar.

Or you can grab the Gmail favicon, as mentioned in a previous email.
It's the small-sized icon, so it looks fine in the Launch Bar, but
looks like crap on the Desktop.

--g

On Sat, 5 Feb 2005 16:56:09 -0500, edlynn <edl...@gmail.com> wrote:
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[edlynn]

Thanks, that sounds like a good route. ED