How does [Desktop Action ...] work?

[David Collier-Brown]

The last time I looked, it seemed unimplemented. Which was
a bummer, because I wanted to write an article about it (;-))

--dave

Ernst Persson wrote:
> Is there a real specification for [Desktop Action ...] yet?
> A list of standard actions would be great!
> Does the freedesktop tools support this, so the information
> can be collected from all desktop-files to a database?
> This would be great for gnome-volume-manager and
> gnome-default-applications for example, which both let's you
> choose an application for a specific action.
> 
> [Desktop Action PlayCD]
> Name=Totem
> Exec=totem --play --dev=%d
> OnlyShowIn=GNOME
> 
> Like this?
> 
> Regards
> /Ernst Persson
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