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Old 05-16-2002
UNIX HATERS book is bogus..., but you can learn from others mistakes
I have read through that so-called "unix haters" book.

It is filled with people who either didn't understand what they were doing or weren't paying attention to what they were doing.

Unix can be a VERY unforgiving OS. The assumption is that we actually KNOW what we are doing.

"Knock on wood" (my head) I have never had a catastrophic encounter with UNIX. And the times that I have had serious problems, they were MY OWN fault. Nothing to do with the OS itself. UNIX is very elegant in its spartan manner and probably the most stable OS that we well ever know of...

A smart man learns from his own mistakes...
A WISE man learns from other's mistakes as well...

Smilie
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desktop-file-validate

DESKTOP-FILE-VALIDATE(1)				      General Commands Manual					  DESKTOP-FILE-VALIDATE(1)

NAME

       desktop-file-validate - Validate desktop entry files

SYNOPSIS

       desktop-file-validate [--no-warn-deprecated] [--warn-kde] FILE...

DESCRIPTION

       The desktop-file-validate program is a tool to validate desktop entry files according to the Desktop Entry specification 1.0.

       The  specification  describes  a  file format to provide information such as name, icon and description for an application. Such a file can
       then be used as an application launcher and to display the application in the applications menu.

       For information about the Desktop Entry specification, see http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/desktop-entry-spec.

       The desktop entry files are commonly called desktop files.

OPTIONS

       The following options are supported:

       --no-warn-deprecated
	      Do not warn about usage of deprecated items that were defined in previous versions of the specification.

       --warn-kde
	      Warn about usage of KDE extensions to the specification. This includes the use of the KDE Desktop Entry group, of the  ServiceTypes,
	      DocPath,	Keywords, InitialPreference, Dev, FSType, MountPoint, ReadOnly, UnmountIcon keys, or of the Service, ServiceType and FSDe-
	      vice types.

BUGS

       If you find bugs in the desktop-file-validate program, please report these on https://bugs.freedesktop.org.

SEE ALSO

       desktop-file-edit(1) desktop-file-install(1)

								  FREEDESKTOP.ORG					  DESKTOP-FILE-VALIDATE(1)