Contents
Desktop Entry Specification
- 1 Introduction
- 2 File naming
- 3 Basic format of the file
- 4 Possible value types
- 5 Localized values for keys
- 6 Recognized desktop entry keys
- 7 The
Execkey - 8 D-Bus Activation
- 9 Interfaces
- 10 Registering MIME Types
- 11 Additional applications actions
- 12 Extending the format
- A Example Desktop Entry File
- B Currently reserved for use within KDE
- C Deprecated Items
- D The
Legacy-MixedEncoding (Deprecated) - E Changes to this Specification
- 1 Introduction
- 2 File naming
- 3 Basic format of the file
- 4 Possible value types
- 5 Localized values for keys
- 6 Recognized desktop entry keys
- 7 The
Execkey - 8 D-Bus Activation
- 9 Interfaces
- 10 Registering MIME Types
- 11 Additional applications actions
- 12 Extending the format
- A Example Desktop Entry File
- B Currently reserved for use within KDE
- C Deprecated Items
- D The
Legacy-MixedEncoding (Deprecated) - E Changes to this Specification
B Currently reserved for use within KDE #
For historical reasons KDE is using some KDE-specific extensions
that are currently not prefixed by a X-KDE- prefix.
KDE specific keys:
ServiceTypes,DocPath,InitialPreferenceKDE specific types:
ServiceType,ServiceandFSDevice
KDE also used the Keywords key before it was
standardized, using commas instead of semi-colons as separators.
At the time of standardization, the field had been prefixed with a
X-KDE prefix, but the Trinity fork still used
the non-prefixed variant.
KDE uses the following additional keys for desktop entries of the
FSDevice type.
Table B.1: FSDevice Specific Keys #
| Key | Description | Value Type |
|---|---|---|
Dev | The device to mount. | string |
FSType | The type of file system to try to mount. | string |
MountPoint | The mount point of the device in question. | string |
ReadOnly | Specifies whether or not the device is read only. | boolean |
UnmountIcon |
Icon to display when device is not mounted. Mounted devices display icon from the Icon key.
| iconstring |