.desktop type Link

Frederic Crozat fred at crozat.net
Thu Feb 10 08:12:30 PST 2011


2011/2/10 Colin Walters <walters at verbum.org>:
> In the .desktop spec, we have:
>
> Type     This specification defines 3 types of desktop entries:
> Application (type 1), Link (type 2) and Directory (type 3). To allow
> the addition of new types in the future, implementations should ignore
> desktop entries with an unknown type.
>
> What is Link?  Does anything use this now?  At least gnome-menus does:

Link are uri, for instance url to website ..
-- 
Frederic Crozat


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