Re: .desktop

[Chmouel Boudjnah <chmouel chmouel com>]

~/Desktop the default desktop folder showing in Gnome and KDE it's a
standard by the freedesktop crowd :

http://standards.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/latest/

Basically when you have a desktop on Gnome or KDE and you have a
background desktop every icon you see on the desktop are .desktop file
due application.

For now kupfer (via gio) parse only the standard offered application
not the customize ones (ie: the one on the Desktop).

Chmouel.

2009/11/24 Ulrik Sverdrup <ulrik sverdrup gmail com>:
> 2009/11/24 Chmouel Boudjnah <chmouel chmouel com>:
>> Hi,
>>
>> There is the ~/.Desktop/ source added but it does not seem that
>> anywhere there is a parse for those files, gio.app_info_get_all does
>> not seem to spawn them which would be nice. Am i missing something or
>> it needs to be implemented as a plugin kind of thing.
>>
>
> Can you explain in more detail what ~/.Desktop is? Is it a folder full
> of applications defined as .desktop files? Where does this folder come
> from? (I've never heard of it)
>