Revision as of 14:01, 16 March 2009

Format of Maemo .desktop files

Below are the fields supported in hildon-desktop (Chinook):

Type: Should be application
Icon
Name
Categories: not used on maemo, but used in Ubuntu mobile
Comment: now unused, was used as second line of text in the startup menu in Bora
Exec
NoDisplay: set to true to hide the entry in the menu
StartupNotify: set to false to disable the startup notification banner
StartupWMClass: used to override the expected window class name, default to the binary name

Some Maemo-specific extensions:

X-Text-Domain: set the L10n domain from which the application name is translated (with dgettext)
X-Osso-Service: a DBus service name - if specified hildon desktop will try to call the top_application method on this service rather than execute what is listed in the Exec field).

@@ Line 10: / Line 10: @@
 :not used on maemo, but used in Ubuntu mobile
 ; Comment
-:now unused, was used as second line of text in the startup menu in
+:now unused, was used as second line of text in the startup menu in Bora
-Bora
 ;Exec
 ;NoDisplay
@@ Line 18: / Line 17: @@
 :set to false to disable the startup notification banner
 ;StartupWMClass
-:used to override the expected window class name, default to the
+:used to override the expected window class name, default to the binary name
-binary name
 Some Maemo-specific extensions:
 ;X-Text-Domain
-:set the L10n domain from which the application name is
+:set the L10n domain from which the application name is translated (with dgettext)
-translated (with dgettext)
 ;X-Osso-Service
-:a DBus service name - if specified hildon desktop will try to
+:a DBus service name - if specified hildon desktop will try to call the top_application method on this service rather than execute what is listed in the Exec field).
-call the top_application method on this service rather than execute what is
-listed in the Exec field).
 (Credits to [https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=95#c15 Johan Billen]
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