Desktop Entry Specification
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## Desktop Entry Specification

### Preston Brown

`<pbrown@kde.org>`

### Jonathan Blandford

`<jrb@redhat.com>`

### Owen Taylor

`<otaylor@gtk.org>`

### Vincent Untz

`<vuntz@gnome.org>`

### Waldo Bastian

`<waldo.bastian@intel.com>`

Version 1.0

## Introduction

Both the KDE and GNOME desktop environments have adopted a similar format for "desktop entries", or configuration files describing how a particular program is to be launched, how it appears in menus, etc. It is to the larger community's benefit that a unified standard be agreed upon by all parties such that interoperation between the two environments, and indeed any additional environments that implement the specification, becomes simpler.

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