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-rw-r--r--src/gui/kernel/qplatformservices.cpp5
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/gui/kernel/qplatformservices.cpp b/src/gui/kernel/qplatformservices.cpp
index f2cade0a35..d09b74c6fe 100644
--- a/src/gui/kernel/qplatformservices.cpp
+++ b/src/gui/kernel/qplatformservices.cpp
@@ -74,7 +74,10 @@ bool QPlatformServices::openDocument(const QUrl &url)
/*!
* \brief QPlatformServices::desktopEnvironment returns the active desktop environment.
*
- * On Unix this function returns KDE, GNOME or UNKNOWN.
+ * On Unix this function returns the uppercase desktop environment name, such as
+ * KDE, GNOME, UNITY, XFCE, LXDE etc. or UNKNOWN if none was detected.
+ * The primary way to detect the desktop environment is the environment variable
+ * XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP.
*/
QByteArray QPlatformServices::desktopEnvironment() const
{