The desktop_entry module implements the XDG Desktop Entry Specification as described in (https://specifications.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/latest). Since other specifications make use of the basic desktop entry format (but with different group names, entry requirements, etc.), this module implements: 1. The generalized format, and 2. A second processing stage to retrieve values relevant to desktop entries and to validate them. This module will attempt to accept malformed files for the purposes of retaining their underlying representation, and being able to reproduce that representation when writing updated information to the files.