Desktop Entry Specification (original) (raw)

Authors:

Jonathan Blandford <jrb@redhat.com>

Owen Taylor <otaylor@gtk.org>

Vincent Untz <vuntz@gnome.org>

Waldo Bastian <waldo.bastian@intel.com>

Publication Date: 6 Feb 2007, Version: Version 1.0

1 Introduction #

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.