How to give a terminal command an icon?

[fliptomato]

Hello -- I've installed a program on MacPorts (gedit) and I'd now like to assign it an icon that I can dump into my Applications folder. (Instead of running it from the terminal.) How do I do this?

Actually, while I'm at it, how do I teach Quicksilver to run the program and to use it to open documents?

Thanks!
Flip

 

[wrldwzrd89]

The Dock won't let you put non-applications on the left (or, at least, what it thinks are non-applications). There's a way to fool it though - this also works for your situation.

Make a small AppleScript in Script Editor. It's going to be very simple, and just serves as a launcher for your MacPorts program.

tell application "Terminal"
do script "/opt/bin/whatever"
end tell

Save this script as an application. You can then drop it in your Applications folder, give it an icon, and QuickSilver should recognize it.

EDIT: Make sure you replace the whatever with the actual name of the executable.