How to make a desktop shortcut on centos 7

You can copy /usr/share/applications .desktop file and copy to ~/Desktop for shortcut & ~/.local/share/applications to make it appear in "Applications Menu" for that user only /usr/share/applications for system wide in "Applications Menu" ~/.local/share/applications for local to that user only.

You can also modify *.desktop files in /usr/share/applications and put in users ~/.Desktop folder as a desktop shortcut.