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📛 NAME

desktop2menu — create a menu file skeleton from a desktop file 📄➡️📋

🚀 Quick Reference

Use Case Command Description
❓ Show help desktop2menu --help 📖 Display usage information
📦 Show version desktop2menu --version 🔢 Display program version
🖥️ Generate menu file desktop2menu desktop file 🏗️ Create a skeleton menu file from a freedesktop.org desktop file
📦 Generate menu file with package name desktop2menu desktop file package name 🏗️ Create a skeleton menu file from a desktop file, using the specified package name

📋 SYNOPSIS

desktop2menu --help|--version
desktop2menu desktop file [package name]

📖 DESCRIPTION

desktop2menu generates a skeleton menu file from the supplied freedesktop.org desktop file. 🏗️⛓️

The package name to be used in the menu file may be passed as an additional argument. If it is not supplied then desktop2menu will attempt to derive the package name from the data in the desktop file. 🎯🔍

📜 LICENSE

This program is Copyright © 2007 by Sune Vuorela <debian AT pusling.com>. It was modified by Adam D. Barratt <adam AT adam-barratt.uk> for the devscripts package. This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. You are free to redistribute this code under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 2 or later. 📄⚖️

👤 AUTHOR

Sune Vuorela <debian AT pusling.com> with modifications by Adam D. Barratt <adam AT adam-barratt.uk> 🧑‍💻🔧

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