I downloaded and installed Eclipse JUNO in Fedora 17, KDE desktop and created an eclipse.desktop. The icon does appear in the Application.Development section but it does not open when selected. I am able to open Eclipse on the command line.
The contents of my eclipse.desktop:
[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Eclipse
Comment=Eclipe SDK 3.7.2
Exec=eclipse
Icon=/opt/eclipse/icon.xpm
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=GNOME;Application;Development;
StartupNotify=true
The contents of my eclipse.desktop:
[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Eclipse
Comment=Eclipe SDK 3.7.2
Exec=eclipse
Icon=/opt/eclipse/icon.xpm
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=GNOME;Application;Development;
StartupNotify=true