diff --git a/home-manager/roles/desktop/default.nix b/home-manager/roles/desktop/default.nix
index 15005edd..74a4defc 100644
--- a/home-manager/roles/desktop/default.nix
+++ b/home-manager/roles/desktop/default.nix
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 let inherit (import ../../../lib) colors;
 in {
   imports =
-    [ ./sleep-nag.nix ./kitty.nix ./wallpaper.nix ./gnome.nix ./firefox.nix ];
+    [ ./sleep-nag.nix ./kitty.nix ./wallpaper.nix ./gnome.nix ./firefox.nix ./desktop-items.nix ];
   m-0.colors = colors;
   home = {
     packages = builtins.attrValues pkgs.desktop-pkgs;
diff --git a/home-manager/roles/desktop/desktop-items.nix b/home-manager/roles/desktop/desktop-items.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..ea90aecc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/home-manager/roles/desktop/desktop-items.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+{ pkgs, ... }:
+let
+  simpleDesktopItem = name: command:
+    pkgs.makeDesktopItem {
+      name = name;
+      desktopName = name;
+      exec = command;
+    };
+  namedTerminalDesktopItem = name: command:
+    pkgs.makeDesktopItem {
+      name = name;
+      desktopName = name;
+      exec = command;
+      terminal = "true";
+    };
+  superSimpleDesktopItem = name: simpleDesktopItem name name;
+  terminalDesktopItem = name: namedTerminalDesktopItem name name;
+
+in {
+  home.packages = map superSimpleDesktopItem [ "kassandra2" ]
+    ++ map terminalDesktopItem [ "maintenance" "ncmpcpp" "kassandra" "hotkeys" "vim" ];
+}