diff --git a/src/desktop/recoll-searchgui.desktop b/src/desktop/recoll-searchgui.desktop
index 8528fca0..225b8c3b 100644
--- a/src/desktop/recoll-searchgui.desktop
+++ b/src/desktop/recoll-searchgui.desktop
@@ -1,11 +1,9 @@
 [Desktop Entry]
 Categories=Utility;Filesystem;Database;
 Comment=Find documents by specifying search terms
-Encoding=UTF-8
 Exec=recoll
 GenericName=Local Text Search
 Icon=recoll
 Name=Recoll
 Terminal=false
 Type=Application
-Value=1.0