TortoiseHg Packages

It turns out some kind fellow has packaged TortoiseHg for openSUSE 12.1;  you can find the packages in the home:tzotsos:vcs repo.  The repo provides not just the Tortoise GUI but the nautilus extensions as well. The only item the packages seem not to provide is a .desktop file for starting the thg application - without a .desktop file GNOME3 doesn't know the application exists.  You can either create the required file using alacarte or by hand; if by hand open the [new] file at ~/.local/share/applications/tortoise.desktop and paste in:

#!/usr/bin/env xdg-open

[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Type=Application
Terminal=false
Icon[en_US]=/usr/share/pixmaps/tortoisehg/icons/thg_logo_92x50.png
Exec=/usr/bin/thg
Name[en_US]=Tortoise Hg
Comment[en_US]=Mercurial Client
Name=Tortoise Hg
Comment=Mercurial Client
Icon=/usr/share/pixmaps/tortoisehg/icons/thg_logo_92x50.png

Now GNOME3 will know about the thg application and you can launch it via the application search as well as add it to your launcher.