- 1Introduction
- 2File naming
- 3Basic format of the file
- 4Possible value types
- 5Localized values for keys
- 6Recognized desktop entry keys
- 7The
Execkey - 8D-Bus Activation
- 9Interfaces
- 10Registering MIME Types
- 11Additional applications actions
- 12Extending the format
- AExample Desktop Entry File
- BHistorically Reserved Items
- CDeprecated Items
- DThe
Legacy-MixedEncoding (Deprecated) - EChanges to this Specification
Desktop Entry Specification#
Authors:
Preston Brown
<pbrown@kde.org>Jonathan Blandford
<jrb@redhat.com>Owen Taylor
<otaylor@gtk.org>Vincent Untz
<vuntz@gnome.org>Waldo Bastian
<waldo.bastian@intel.com>Allison Lortie
<desrt@desrt.ca>David Faure
<faure@kde.org>Will Thompson
<wjt@endlessos.org>Publication Date:2020-04-27,Version:Version 1.5
- 1Introduction
- 2File naming
- 3Basic format of the file
- 4Possible value types
- 5Localized values for keys
- 6Recognized desktop entry keys
- 7The
Execkey - 8D-Bus Activation
- 9Interfaces
- 10Registering MIME Types
- 11Additional applications actions
- 12Extending the format
- AExample Desktop Entry File
- BHistorically Reserved Items
- CDeprecated Items
- DThe
Legacy-MixedEncoding (Deprecated) - EChanges to this Specification
1Introduction#
Both the KDE and GNOME desktop environments have adopted a similar format for "desktop entries", or configuration files describing how a particular program is to be launched, how it appears in menus, etc. It is to the larger community's benefit that a unified standard be agreed upon by all parties such that interoperation between the two environments, and indeed any additional environments that implement the specification, becomes simpler.