desktoptojson8
Converts a .desktop file to a .json file.
Usage
desktoptojson --input
DESKTOP-FILE
--output
JSON-FILE
desktoptojson {--version | --help}
Overview
The KService framework uses information contained in .desktop files to locate services, including plugins for Qt5-based applications and libraries. The Qt5 plugin system, however, uses JSON data embedded in the plugin itself. desktoptojson allows the information contained in a .desktop file to also be used as the embedded data for a Qt5 plugin by converting the .desktop file entries into JSON data.
The generated JSON data is a JSON object that maps the entries from the [Desktop Entry] group of the .desktop file. Any other groups are ignored. Most entries are just converted to JSON strings, but certain entries (such as Hidden and X-KDE-PluginInfo-EnabledByDefault) are known to be boolean values and converted as such, and similarly some (such as X-KDE-ServiceTypes and X-KDE-PluginInfo-Depends) are always converted to arrays of strings.
Options
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--input DESKTOP-FILE -
The .desktop file to convert.
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--output JSON-FILE -
The file to write the generated JSON data to.
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--help -
Show a brief help text.
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--version -
Show version information.
Usage
Most users of this utility will use the CMake macro kservice_desktop_to_json as part of the process of building a plugin.
add_library(myplugin MODULE ${myplugin_SRCS})
kservice_desktop_to_json(myplugin myplugin.desktop)
This will produce the JSON file myplugin.json, which can be referenced from the K_PLUGIN_FACTORY_WITH_JSON or Q_PLUGIN_METADATA macros.
Notes
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KDE's bugtracker
https://bugs.kde.org
Releases
Unchanged in 3 releases since Debian 11 (Bullseye).