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  <info>

    <link type="guide" xref="index" group="launching"/>

    <link type="next" xref="dev-launching-desktop"/>

    <link type="seealso" xref="dev-translate"/>

    <revision version="0.1" date="2014-01-27" status="draft"/>

    <credit type="author copyright">

      <name>David King</name>

      <email its:translate="no">davidk@gnome.org</email>

      <years>2014</years>

    </credit>

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    <desc>Showing a launcher and starting your application.</desc>

  </info>

  <title>Application launching</title>

  <links type="series" style="floatend">

    <title>Launch your application</title>

  </links>

  
An icon in the launcher is the standard way to launch your application.

  Use the freedesktop.org Desktop Entry Specification standard to create a

  desktop file, giving your application name, icon and a brief description.

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