.desktop type Link

Jason Smith jason.smith at canonical.com
Thu Feb 10 14:49:59 PST 2011


This type is proving to be useful for implementing webapp support into
our launcher.

On Thu, 2011-02-10 at 17:12 +0100, Frederic Crozat wrote:
> 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 ..

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