The structure of simpleui.rc isn't too hard to get to grips with, even if you're not familiar with XML. The body of the file defines two different kinds of objects: simplecat, which is the broad grouping into application types like 'Work', 'Play', and so on; and parcel, which defines how to invoke a particular application, what icon should represent it on the desktop and what name to give the icon. The naming is done in over a dozen different languages, but for our present purposes we'll chauvinistically ignore everything except the line where lang="en".

Entering the Relauncher script in nano

Notice the placing of the angle brackets, and in particular the fact that each parcel definition is closed with a </parcel> flag.

One of the things I use a netbook for is movie script writing. No, you don't need a $500 software application to do this right. There's a wonderful free website called Zhura.com I use all the time, so I want to make it directly accessible from my Eee PC Easy Desktop.

'Copy and paste' was invented for exercises like this. So I pick an existing parcel definition that's close to what I need - iGoogle will do - copy the whole thing from <parcel... down to and including the </parcel> closer, and paste that in again at the end of the file just before the </simpleui> which signs off the whole Simple UI definition.