Desktop Shortcut Editor
Desktop Shortcut Editor makes it very easy to add, search and edit desktop entry files in desktop environments and application launchers that uses the free desktop entry file specification.
Desktop Shortcut Editor Overview Video
Video Coming soon.
Download Desktop Shortcut Editor
I have provided builds for common systems for gtk2, qt5 and qt6 with the following exceptions:
Flatpak: When I looked into providing Flatpak packages I found that they run in a sandboxed environment so Flatpak is not well suited to a utility app like this that edits system files.
qt6 on aarch64: I have not provided a qt6 aarch64 build as the fpcupdeluxe cross compiler setup I use does not currently have the libqt6pas libraries for linking into the compiled binary. I will do a build for qt6 aarch64 when this is updated with the build pipeline tools I use.
Download DEB Packages
DEB builds tested on Ubuntu and Debian.
- All versions work on Ubuntu 25.04 and newer providing you have the required libraries installed.
- Ubuntu 24.04 LTS has the GTK2 and QT5 versions working because 24.04 LTS does not provide a package for libqt6pas6.
- Debian 12 only the GTK2 version works as the libqt5pas1 library they have is not working with the latest qt5 builds.
Download RPM Packages
RPM builds tested on Fedora 42, unfortunately the rpm build system didn't allow me to cross build the aarch64 RPMS for arm64 systems so only x86_64 builds are provided by me at this time. There is a generic tarball for aarch64 with builds for gtk2 and qt5.
- desktop-shortcut-editor-1.0.0-1.qt5.x86_64.rpm
- desktop-shortcut-editor-1.0.0-1.qt6.x86_64.rpm
- desktop-shortcut-editor-1.0.0-1.gtk2.x86_64.rpm
Download Generic Tarballs
I have combined all the builds and an icon file into the tarball download for x86_64 and aarch64 architectures so you can choose which version you want to run.