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Possible value types
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Desktop Entry Specification
  1. 1 Introduction
  2. 2 Basic format of the file
  3. 3 Possible value types
  4. 4 Localized values for keys
  5. 5 Recognized desktop entry keys
  6. 6 The Exec key
  7. 7 D-Bus Activation
  8. 8 Registering MIME Types
  9. 9 Additional applications actions
  10. 10 Extending the format
  11. A Example Desktop Entry File
  12. B Currently reserved for use within KDE
  13. C Deprecated Items
  14. D The Legacy-Mixed Encoding (Deprecated)
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  1. 1 Introduction
  2. 2 Basic format of the file
  3. 3 Possible value types
  4. 4 Localized values for keys
  5. 5 Recognized desktop entry keys
  6. 6 The Exec key
  7. 7 D-Bus Activation
  8. 8 Registering MIME Types
  9. 9 Additional applications actions
  10. 10 Extending the format
  11. A Example Desktop Entry File
  12. B Currently reserved for use within KDE
  13. C Deprecated Items
  14. D The Legacy-Mixed Encoding (Deprecated)

3 Possible value types

The value types recognized are string, localestring, boolean, and numeric.

  • Values of type string may contain all ASCII characters except for control characters.

  • Values of type localestring are user displayable, and are encoded in UTF-8.

  • Values of type boolean must either be the string true or false.

  • Values of type numeric must be a valid floating point number as recognized by the %f specifier for scanf in the C locale.

The escape sequences \s, \n, \t, \r, and \\ are supported for values of type string and localestring, meaning ASCII space, newline, tab, carriage return, and backslash, respectively.

Some keys can have multiple values. In such a case, the value of the key is specified as a plural: for example, string(s). The multiple values should be separated by a semicolon and the value of the key may be optionally terminated by a semicolon. Trailing empty strings must always be terminated with a semicolon. Semicolons in these values need to be escaped using \;.

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