A D-Bus API and daemon to manage desktop entries and icons! Choose from 3 different lifetimes for your data and entries will be managed automatically!

Documentation

See: the documentation for how to use and contribute to this API!

Project Showcase

Projects that use this D-Bus Service:

• container-desktop-entries (Supports Toolbox, Docker, and Podman containers)
• appimage-desktop-entries (maybe coming soon?)
• your client here?

Building/Installing/Uninstalling

BUILD

just build

INSTALL

just install
systemctl --user enable --now desktop-entry-daemon

UNINSTALL

systemctl --user stop desktop-entry-daemon
systemctl --user disable desktop-entry-daemon
just uninstall

Contributing

Make a PR! It'd be helpful to make an issue as well to let people know what you intend to work on!