Crate desk_exec

Desk-exec

Desk-exec provides an API to search for and execute programs from their XDG desktop entry files.

Overview

This API is designed around the ‘DesktopEntry’ struct from the ‘freedesktop_desktop_entry’ crate. It provides the functionality to do a substring search for list of directories, and execute the program within a desktop entry.

Enums

• DesktopEntryError
  Represents all possible error variants when trying to execute a desktop entry

Traits

• CleanPlaceholders
  Gives the ability for a desktop entry type to provide an executable name cleaned from any placeholder values

Functions

• exec_entry
  Attempts to execute the program within a desktop entry. The executed program will be detached from the terminal if ‘detach’ is true.
• get_default_entry_dirs
  Panic-less wrapper for ‘fredesktop_desktop_entry::default_paths()’. Returns the default XDG data directories, where desktop entries are stored on most systems.
• search_for_entries
  Searches a list of directories for any desktop entry files that match the ‘program_name’ pattern. Will return early with the first match found when ‘get_first’ is true.

Type Aliases

• Result