** EDIT: Extended clarification of the tool **Please note that this is a tool for developers and isn't that interesting for end users.
You can't just take any app and package it and everything will be fine. One thing that must be changed in the application first is the save location. OPKs are read-only, which means that if the app tries to save in the same directory, as many seem to do, then saving will fail. Instead the app must save its data inside the $HOME directory.
** Description **Open Package Creator is a tool to easily package an application in an OPK file, complete with a generated .desktop meta data file.
Runs on Windows and Linux (with Mono)
For Linux, the dependencies are:
Mono
Mono Winforms
squashfs-tools
Change log 1.1.2
* Added support for X-OD-NeedsGSensor and X-OD-NeedsDownscaling
* Fixed a bug with using desktop files as is and then trying to pack
Change log 1.1.1
* Added support for the new X-OD-NeedsJoystick option
Change log 1.1
* Made a better list of default mime types, based on the actual mime types used in OD
* Icons and executables in sub directories now work
* Existing .desktop files are now handled, the user may either:
- Ignore and overwrite the existing .desktop files (as it worked previously)
- Load information from the existing .desktop files
- Skip the .desktop file generation and use the existing files as-is
* Better handling of launching with a file: %f won't get appended to exec if it already contains it
* Improved the detection of executables in squashfs-tools
* If executable is a script and Windows line endings are found, the user may chose to convert the script to Unix line endings
* Help directly in the application; info icons which popups information about each field on hover
* Fields for Terminal and Manual are now available
* Various other fixes
Download from GitHubFor end users, the only file you need is OpenPackageCreator-1.1.2.zip