Locking Eclipse Icon to Launcher

Question

I am running Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 64-bit. I recenetly downloaded eclipse kepler from their website and it runs fine and all that. But one thing i noticed was that it was a downloaded archive file, and it wasn't installed on the system. When I launch the icon to the launchbar, it does not open it the next time. And upon restart, the icon is gone. Kindly help me out here. Thank you.

Answer 1

I figured it out after sometime. In order to do so, make a desktop file of the same name of the executable file for example eclipse.desktop in this case. Type the following in the file:

[Desktop Entry]
Version = 1.0
Name=Eclipse
Comment=Used to run C++
Exec= "Path to the executable of the application"
Icon="Path to the icon of the application"
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=Application;

Save the file and then right click on it and click Properties. Go to the Permissions tab and then check allow executing file as program.

Launch eclipse from it and then pin it to the Launcher. Done and Done.