desktop-menuitem

Create/Edit Gnome/KDE Desktop files from the CLI

.desktop file creator/editor

Are you tired of manually creating .desktop files for your desktop?

Installation

npm i -g @master.technology/desktopmenuitem

Usage

This supports any exectuable file, not just AppImage.

I tend to move the application form my downloaded folder to where I want it to live and then just type: desktopmenuitem ./appname-1.0.0.AppImage and be done with it.

This will automatically, detect the name as Appname (automatically removing the version and .AppImage) and create a new appname.desktop file in your user's application folder.

However, you are free to pass in whole slew of options:

--help                     display help
--view                     View file 
--edit                     Call your editor with the file
--list <optional filter>   List all desktop files
--changelog                Show the changelog

-d, --desktop <file>       Desktop file to use
-k, --keywords <keywords>  Set keywords
-m, --mime <type>          Set mime type
-n, --name <name>          Set name (default: App name)
-e, --exec <name>          Setup executable path
-h, --hide                 Hide application (default: false)
-t, --terminal             .desktop is Terminal mode (default: false)
--json <key>               Set key/values from JSON

Extra Features Usage

--list has an optional filter, so you can do desktopmenuitem --list .local and it will only show .desktop files in a folder that has .local in it.

Notes

• .desktop spec

Known issues

• Does not preserve any comments in an existing desktop file.
  • The underlying ini load/save module doesn't support this yet. I would be willing to switch for another no-dependency ini module. (PR would be welcome)