freedesktop-categories

Static hash map of all application categories as defined by the Freedesktop.org Desktop Menu Specification.

These categories are used in the parsing of .desktop entries on many open source desktop environments, among other things. They are also present in other package metadata standards like AppStream.

Contributing

This is a community project that welcomes contributions from anyone. If you're interested in helping out, please check the issue tracker to get started. Pull requests and issues are welcome!

License

freedesktop-categories is free and open source software distributed under the terms of both the MIT License and the Apache License 2.0.

Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in the work by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be dual licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.

lib.rs:

Parser and code generator for freedesktop-categories.

Fetches the latest DocBook version of the Desktop Menu Specification from Freedesktop.org, parses the XML, builds a static phf hash map of all the categories, and saves the generated Rust code to a file which can be included in your Rust project during a Cargo build.