How To Add Application To Pop OS Gnome Launcher

Following this SO post

Basically:

• wrote my own .desktop file by hand
• supposedly can downloaded logo and stored it in /usr/share/icons for global and ~/.local/share/icons for users, but didn’t work
  • per this SO post
• made it executable
• stored it in /usr/share/applications
• wait a few moments or relog to have the applications refreshed

[Desktop Entry]
Name=obsidian
Comment=Zettlekasten note taking
Exec=/usr/local/bin/Obsidian-0.12.10.AppImage
Type=Application
Terminal=false
Icon=<ICON NAME OR PATH TO ICON>
NoDisplay=false

Getting An Icon Working

A reader wrote in to add that they achieved getting an icon added by following these steps:

1. Add your icon to /usr/share/pixmaps eg. /usr/share/pixmaps/pycharm.png
2. in your .desktop file: add the row Icon=pycharm