Linux .desktop files

[sfornengo]

In linux (Kde, Gnome, Unity) the equivalent of .URL or .webloc file is .desktop file that contents an URL to open.
A link to an internet file may have an entry as simple as the following:

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Internet Link
Type=Link
URL=<url>
Icon=<icon to display>

Here is an example:

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Link to Best Practices Software engineering
Type=Link
URL=http://abdennour-insat.blogspot.com/
Icon=text-html

It would be awesome if files_linkeditor could open .desktop files too.

[te-online]

Sounds like a nice idea :-) You could enhance the parser and write a test for it if you'd like? :-)