desktop-entry-lib 4.0

A library for working with .desktop files

desktop-entry-lib

desktop-entry-lib allows reading and writing .desktop files according to the Desktop Entry Specification

import desktop_entry_lib


def write() -> None:
    entry = desktop_entry_lib.DesktopEntry()

    entry.Name.default_text = "My App"
    entry.Comment.default_text = "A short description"
    entry.Comment.translations["de"] = "A short german description"
    entry.Type = "Application"
    entry.Exec = "my-app"

    entry.write_file("my_app.desktop")


def read() -> None:
    entry = desktop_entry_lib.DesktopEntry.from_file("my_app.desktop")

    print("Name: " + entry.Name.default_text)
    print("Comment: " + entry.Comment.default_text)
    print("German translation for Comment: " + entry.Comment.translations.get("de", "None"))
    print("Type: " + entry.Type)
    print("Exec: " + entry.Exec)


if __name__ == "__main__":
    write()
    read()

Features:

• Fully static typed
• No external dependencies
• Full Documentation and Examples available
• Support running inside a Flatpak
• The whole lib is a single file
• Supports PyPy

Read the documentation