desktop-file-utils contains a couple of command line utilities for working with desktop entries. It requires GLib and popt to compile, because the implementation requires Unicode utilities and such. Right now the only documentation is "desktop-file-install --help". desktop-file-validate takes a single argument, the file to validate.
Created attachment 7523 [details] Ebuild, digest, Changelog I think this should go in x11-misc. If you change this, then also change gnome-alsamixer to reference the new location.
thanks! commited to cvs in dev-util/desktop-file-utils.