Software/desktop-file-utils

desktop-file-utils

desktop-file-utils contains a few command line utilities for working with desktop entries:

• desktop-file-validate: validates a desktop file and prints warnings/errors about desktop entry specification violations.
• desktop-file-install: installs a desktop file to the applications directory, optionally munging it a bit in transit.
• update-desktop-database: updates the database containing a cache of MIME types handled by desktop files.

It requires GLib to compile, because the implementation requires Unicode utilities and such.

Development

The development occurs in git, in the xdg/desktop-file-utils repository. Bugs should be reported in Bugzilla.

Download

• http://www.freedesktop.org/software/desktop-file-utils/releases/desktop-file-utils-0.20.tar.xz

  • desktop-file-install
    • fix list of locale strings without trailing slash (Matthias Clasen)
  • desktop-file-validate
    • add MATE and Razor to list of registered environments (Vincent)
    • validate Desktop Actions (Giovanni Campagna, Vincent)

• http://www.freedesktop.org/software/desktop-file-utils/releases/desktop-file-utils-0.19.tar.xz

  • desktop-file-install
    • respect order of edit options (Vincent)
    • add --add-not-show-in/--remove-not-show-in options (Vincent)

    • add options to set Name, GenericName, Comment, Icon keys (Vincent)

    • add --set-key/--set-value options to set an arbitrary key (Vincent)
    • remove localized keys when setting/removing a key (Vincent)
    • copy translations when copying a key (Vincent)
    • create a desktop-file-edit symlink to desktop-file-install to simply edit .desktop files (without having to pass --dir) (Vincent)
    • look at RPM_BUILD_ROOT to know where to install desktop files
    • minor UI improvements (Vincent)
  • desktop-file-validate
    • add Unity to list of registered environments (Vincent)
    • deal with various zz-application/zz-winassoc-XXX mime types (Vincent)
    • mark all zz-application/* MIME types as aliases (Vincent)
    • add support for updated Keywords key (Vincent)
  • update-desktop-database
    • deal with various zz-application/zz-winassoc-XXX mime types (Vincent)
    • mark all zz-application/* MIME types as aliases (Vincent)
    • ignore desktop files with Hidden=true (Vincent)
  • misc
    • modernize build system a bit (Vincent)
    • update man pages (Vincent)

• http://www.freedesktop.org/software/desktop-file-utils/releases/desktop-file-utils-0.18.tar.bz2

  • desktop-file-validate
    • accept x-scheme-handler/* mime types (Vincent)
  • update-desktop-database
    • sort mime types alphabetically in generated cache (Vincent)
    • accept x-scheme-handler/* mime types (Vincent)
  • misc
    • improve build system (Vincent)
    • minor documentation fixes (Vincent)

• http://www.freedesktop.org/software/desktop-file-utils/releases/desktop-file-utils-0.17.tar.bz2

  • desktop-file-validate
    • accept chemical/* mime types as valid types (Vincent)
    • make icon names with an extension for Icon key a non-fatal error (Vincent)
  • update-desktop-database
    • accept chemical/* mime types as valid types (Vincent)
    • ignore --verbose if --quiet is also passed (Vincent)
    • make sure to always output lists in the keyfile we generate (Vincent)
  • misc
    • improve build system (Vincent)
    • update documentation (Vincent)
    • add man pages (Vincent)

• http://www.freedesktop.org/software/desktop-file-utils/releases/desktop-file-utils-0.16.tar.bz2

  • desktop-file-install
    • do not unlink the destination file if it's the same as the source file in desktop-file-install (Vincent)
  • desktop-file-validate
    • check that a main category is included in the Categories (Vincent)
    • check that categories required by another one are present (Vincent)
    • do not always show warnings about KDE specific uses (Vincent)

    • check that the Comment does not look like the Name and the GenericName (Vincent)

    • display error about multiple keys with the same name earlier (Vincent)
    • improve MIME type check to make sure that the MIME types are valid (Vincent)

    • add LXDE in the list of registered OnlyShowIn values (Vincent)

    • add "warning" to error strings to make them easily greppable (Vincent)

    • handle AutostartCondition key, as proposed for the autostart specification and used in GNOME (Vincent)

    • accept empty Categories key as valid (Vincent)
    • make new errors non-fatal to give some time to maintainers to fix their .desktop file after a release of desktop-file-utils (Vincent)
    • plug leak (Vincent)
    • code cleanups (Vincent)
  • update-desktop-database
    • improve MIME type check to make sure that the MIME types are valid (Vincent)
    • improve error messages (Erik Hovland, Vincent)
    • fix format string vulnerability warning (Vincent)
  • misc
    • use AM_SILENT_RULES (Vincent)
    • improve build system (Vincent)

• http://www.freedesktop.org/software/desktop-file-utils/releases/desktop-file-utils-0.15.tar.gz

  • make the extension check for Icon key a warning instead of an error for now (Ray Strode)
  • Fix a crash in update-desktop-database when there's no group (Vincent)
  • Fix a crash in the validator happening for very small lines (Vincent)

• http://www.freedesktop.org/software/desktop-file-utils/releases/desktop-file-utils-0.14.tar.gz

  • update of the Emacs editing mode for .desktop files (Ville Skyttä)
  • make desktop-file-install print an error when trying to install a non-existing desktop file, or a desktop file that can't be read (Vincent)
  • make the validator check the content of the Icon key (Vincent)
  • make the validator accept X-Foo as a valid environment (this was added to the spec) (Stanislav Brabec, Vincent)
  • really handle the -m command line argument for desktop-file-install (Matthias Clasen)
  • make desktop-file-install accept as one valid argument multiple categories/only-show-in/mime-types values. Now --add-category="GNOME;GTK" works as expected. (Vincent)
  • make desktop-file-install validate the created desktop file before removing the original file, and unlink it if it's not valid (Vincent)
  • code cleanups for desktop-file-install (Vincent)

• http://www.freedesktop.org/software/desktop-file-utils/releases/desktop-file-utils-0.13.tar.gz

  • rewrite validator, and update it for desktop entry specification 1.0. The validator should be stricter and report more useful messages. (Vincent)
  • add --warn-kde and --no-warn-deprecated command line options to desktop-file-validate (Vincent)
  • port desktop-file-install to GKeyFile (Vincent)
  • don't require --vendor for desktop-file-install (Vincent)
  • some general module cleanup (Vincent)

• http://www.freedesktop.org/software/desktop-file-utils/releases/desktop-file-utils-0.12.tar.gz

  • improves category validation code to not catch false positives (Vincent Fretin, Ville Skyttä, Ray Strode, Vincent Untz)
  • make category validation code non-fatal (Ray)
  • fix mem leaks and double frees (Pascal Terjan)

• http://www.freedesktop.org/software/desktop-file-utils/releases/desktop-file-utils-0.11.tar.gz

  • Validate desktop file categories (Emmet Hikory, Vincent Untz)
  • Use GKeyFile instead of the old egg code in update-desktop-database (Vincent)
  • Use GOption instead of popt (Vincent)
  • Fix grammar problem in one of the strings (Moritz Barsnick)
  • NULL terminate search patch in update-desktop-database (Mike Hearn)
  • Fix language to encoding mapping to match spec (Ville Skyttä)

• http://www.freedesktop.org/software/desktop-file-utils/releases/desktop-file-utils-0.10.tar.gz

  • Remove all menus code (Mark McLoughlin)

  • Don't try and add key/value pairs to comments (Miloslav Trmac)

• http://www.freedesktop.org/software/desktop-file-utils/releases/desktop-file-utils-0.9.tar.gz

  • Many update-desktop-database improvements (Ray Strode, Dan Williams)
  • Fix desktop-file-install --remove-only-show-in (Ray Strode)

• http://www.freedesktop.org/software/desktop-file-utils/releases/desktop-file-utils-0.8.tar.gz

  • Fix various leaks (Kjartan Maraas)
  • Update with latest libegg code (Ray Strode)

  • Menu method work (Mark McLoughlin, Dan Williams)

    • Reload the menu when .desktop/.directory files change

    • Respect NoDisplay in .desktop/.directory files

    • Remove empty submenus
    • Report the last modification time of the tree

    • Support setting the OnlyShowIn name

    • Add a reasonable default set of schemes

• http://www.freedesktop.org/software/desktop-file-utils/releases/desktop-file-utils-0.7.tar.gz

  • Add update-desktop-database (Ray Strode)
  • Emacs editing mode for .desktop files (Ville Skyttä)
  • Update to latest spec, improve error messages (Ville Skyttä)

  • Warning fixes (Mark McLoughlin)

  • distcheck fixes (Jonathan Blandford)

• http://www.freedesktop.org/software/desktop-file-utils/releases/desktop-file-utils-0.6.tar.gz

  • Bring up to date with version 0.8 of the menu spec
  • Don't crash when a .desktop file is a symlink to a non-existant file

• http://www.freedesktop.org/software/desktop-file-utils/releases/desktop-file-utils-0.5.tar.gz

  • Don't segfault with .desktop files which have a leading comment

• http://www.freedesktop.org/software/desktop-file-utils/releases/desktop-file-utils-0.4.tar.gz

  • Add support for "Desktop Action" sections

• http://www.freedesktop.org/software/desktop-file-utils/releases/desktop-file-utils-0.3.tar.gz

  • Create target dir of desktop-file-install if nonexistent; improve some error messages; fix OnlyShowIn handling; add --print-available option to dump desktop files being considered by desktop-menu-tool; rename obsolete [KDE Desktop Entry] section if found; fix a crash; verify proper spelling of KDE and GNOME in OnlyShowIn; add a --remove-key option; check that string lists end in a semicolon; add --copy-name-to-generic-name and vice versa; fix bug in --delete-original that made it not work

• http://www.freedesktop.org/software/desktop-file-utils/releases/desktop-file-utils-0.2.tar.gz

  • Adds desktop-menu-tool to parse vfolder menus and generate a symlink tree or just print them out.

• http://www.freedesktop.org/software/desktop-file-utils/releases/desktop-file-utils-0.1.tar.gz

  • Initial release. Contains desktop-file-validate and desktop-file-install.

Software/desktop-file-utils (last edited 2012-03-05 12:10:35 by VincentUntz)

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