Find path of applicaiton installed Ubuntu

Question

[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Type=Application
Name=PyCharm Community Edition
Icon=pycharm-community
Exec=pycharm-community %f
Comment=Develop with pleasure!
Categories=Development;IDE;
Terminal=false
StartupWMClass=jetbrains-pycharm-ce

I know the format of a desktop entry file but I'm trying to find out where the application has been installed. This desktop entry shows in the search and on clicking it PyCharm opens as it is supposed to.

Also I did not understand what %f stands for from the Documentation

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

You can always try running "which pycharm-community" in your terminal, it will probably output a path of the binary it is trying to start.

Answer 2

you can try locate function:

locate * | grep "name_you_look_for"