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+[Desktop Entry]
+Encoding=UTF-8
+_Name=GParted
+_Comment=Gnome Partition Editor
+Exec=gparted
+Terminal=false
+Type=Application
+Categories=GNOME;Application;System;
+StartupNotify=true