### Constant

# Gio FILE_ATTRIBUTE_STANDARD_DESCRIPTION

since: 2.0

#### Declaration

    #define G_FILE_ATTRIBUTE_STANDARD_DESCRIPTION "standard::description"

#### Description

A key in the “standard” namespace for getting the description of the file.

The description is a utf8 string that describes the file, generally containing the filename, but can also contain further information. Example descriptions could be “filename (on hostname)” for a remote file or “filename (in trash)” for a file in the trash. This is useful for instance as the window title when displaying a directory or for a bookmarks menu.

Corresponding `GFileAttributeType` is `G_FILE_ATTRIBUTE_TYPE_STRING`.

Available since: 2.0