ParrotSec / Parrot Menu

Providing Parrot specific desktop files

You can add as many desktop files as you want in the desktop-files sub-directory. Each desktop file must have an entry "X-Parrot-Package=foo" where foo is the name of the binary package that is associated to this desktop file. Note that you can associate multiple binary packages to the same desktop file if needed, just put a space-separated list of packages in the X-Parrot-Package field.

Those desktop files will be installed in /usr/share/applications by update-Parrot-menu as soon as the corresponding package is installed. And they will be removed afer the corresponding package has been removed.

If you want to override an existing desktop file instead of adding a new one, make sure to reuse the same filename. When Parrot-menu detects the conflict, it will transparently use dpkg-divert to move away the official desktop file and put the Parrot one in place.

It's possible to remove/hide an existing desktop file, by overriding it and adding "NoDisplay=true" to the overridden desktop file.