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docs: Better explain desktop applications. (#659)
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RokeJulianLockhart authored Dec 8, 2024
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<section id="spec-appdata-introduction">
<title>Introduction</title>
<para>
A desktop application is an application which has a graphical user interface and is commonly used with mouse and keyboard. It also ships a Freedesktop
<filename>.desktop</filename> file to be visible in application menus.
A desktop application is interactive software that presents a graphical interface to the user.
To appear in application listings, the packaged application must include a <ulink url="https://specifications.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/latest/">Freedesktop <filename>.desktop</filename></ulink> file.
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AppStream generators may pull data from the preexisting <filename>.desktop</filename> files to represent an application in the AppStream metadata pool. Upstream projects should
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