Where should I put a .desktop file in order to ensure that most desktop environments find it? Is there such a location? In addition, is there any standard place to put it in the user’s home directory so that only that user sees it?
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Where should I put a .desktop file in order to ensure that most desktop environments find it? Is there such a location? In addition, is there any standard place to put it in the user’s home directory so that only that user sees it?
Gnome puts them in
/usr/share/applications. My personal ones seem to show up on~/Desktop, but these all seem Wine-related. Some also show up in~/.local/share/applications. The good people at freedesktop.org have a specification of what they should look like, but I can’t find a standard about where they should go.