D library for working with .desktop files. Desktop entries in Freedesktop world are akin to shortcuts from Windows world (.lnk files).
The most of desktop environments on Linux and BSD flavors follows Desktop Entry Specification today. The goal of desktopfile library is to provide implementation of this specification in D programming language. Please feel free to propose enchancements or report any related bugs to Issues page.
The library is crossplatform for the most part, though there's little sense to use it on systems that don't follow freedesktop specifications. desktopfile is developed and tested on FreeBSD and Debian GNU/Linux.
Ddoc:
dub build --build=docs
Ddox:
dub build --build=ddox
dub test
Utility that can parse, execute and rewrites .desktop files. This will start vlc with the first parameter set to $HOME/Music:
dub run desktopfile:desktoputil -- exec /usr/share/applications/vlc.desktop $HOME/Music
Should start command line application in terminal emulator:
dub run desktopfile:desktoputil -- exec /usr/share/applications/python2.7.desktop
Open link with preferred application:
dub run desktopfile:desktoputil -- link /usr/share/desktop-base/debian-homepage.desktop
Starts .desktop file defined executable or opens link:
dub run desktopfile:desktoputil -- start /path/to/file.desktop
Parse and write .desktop file to new location:
dub run desktopfile:desktoputil -- write /usr/share/applications/vlc.desktop $HOME/Desktop/vlc.desktop
Read basic information about desktop file:
dub run desktopfile:desktoputil -- read /usr/share/applications/kde4/kate.desktop
Parses all .desktop files in system's applications paths (usually /usr/local/share/applicatons and /usr/share/applications) and on the user's Desktop. Writes errors (if any) to stderr. Use this example to check if the desktopfile library can parse all .desktop files on your system.
dub run desktopfile:desktoptest --build=release
To print all directories examined by desktoptest to stdout, build it in non-release mode:
dub run desktopfile:desktoptest