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<info>
<link type="guide" xref="index" group="launching"/>
<link type="next" xref="dev-launching-desktop"/>
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<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>
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<title>Application launching</title>
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<title>Launch your application</title>
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<p>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.</p>
</page>