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Desktop Entry Specification

Authors:
Preston Brown
Jonathan Blandford
Owen Taylor
Vincent Untz
Waldo Bastian
Allison Lortie
David Faure
Will Thompson

Publication Date: 2020-04-27, Version: Version 1.5

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.