infos = Information about the desktop plugin is in keys below
infos/author = Name name@.nosp@m.libe.nosp@m.lektr.nosp@m.a.or.nosp@m.g
infos/licence = BSD
infos/needs =
infos/provides = storage info
infos/recommends =
infos/placements = getstorage setstorage
infos/status = recommended maintained specific nodep libc unfinished nodoc concept
infos/metadata =
infos/description =

To mount the plugin please use:

bin/kdb mount --resolver noresolver none system/info/desktop desktop

or it is already included if you already mounted the info plugins with:

kdb mount-info

Then you can get desktop information via:

kdb get system/info/desktop

You either get a lower-case string (supported desktops see below) or no key if no desktop was detected.

Purpose

The plugin is informational and mainly be used to provide context for other other configuration. See elektrify-getenv.

Supported Desktop

Currently supported desktops are:

GNOME
KDE
TDE
Unity
XDG conformant desktops (XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP)

Currently the detection relies on environment variables, which will not work in setuid or otherwise secured binaries. Please open a bug report if the detection does not work for you: http://libelektra.org