desktop-file-utils

desktop-file-utils contains a few command line utilities for working with desktop entries:

• desktop-file-validate: validates a desktop file and prints warnings/errors about desktop entry specification violations.
• desktop-file-install: installs a desktop file to the applications directory, optionally munging it a bit in transit.
• update-desktop-database: updates the database containing a cache of MIME types handled by desktop files. It requires GLib to compile, because the implementation requires Unicode utilities and such.

Development

The development occurs in git, in the xdg/desktop-file-utils repository. Bugs should be reported in gitlab.

Download

Tarballs can be found at https://www.freedesktop.org/software/desktop-file-utils/releases/

Release notes can be found in the NEWS file.