rpm installing an icon to the desktop

Question

In Fedora Gnome...

Using a .desktop file in my rpm, I have successfully put my gui software into the gnome application menu.

I am wondering if there is a way to also put the icon onto the gnome desktop when installing the rpm?

update:

Now I can get rpmbuild to successfully use rpmbuild with xdg-desktop-icon in %install... and in the process puts an icon on my desktop (before even installing the rpm!) I am doing something wrong. Any suggestions?

Here is the relevant part of my spec file:

Source1: %{name}.desktop
BuildRoot: %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-%{release}-root-%(%{__id_u} -n)
BuildRequires:  gettext, python-devel, desktop-file-utils, xdg-utils

...

%install
rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
%{__python} setup.py install -O1 --skip-build --root $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
desktop-file-install --dir=${RPM_BUILD_ROOT}%{_datadir}/applications %{SOURCE1}
xdg-desktop-icon install --novendor %{SOURCE1}

Answer 1

The page you linked to explains how to use desktop-file-install on the %install section of your SPECS. Apart from that, you may need to use xdg-desktop-icon from the xdg-utils package.

EDIT:

Apparently, %install is to only be used at build time (at make install time). For package installation and removal there's %pre, %post, %preun and %postun. It looks like you should use %post, checking $1 as explained on https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:ScriptletSnippets.