Development

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• • honor NOCONFIGURE=1 (Colin Walters)

  • list only once a desktop file per mime type (Vincent)

  • add DBusActivatable key to allowed keys (Matthias Clasen)

  • warn about OnlyShowIn in Action groups (Matthias Clasen)

  • allow validating multiple desktop files (Matthias Clasen)

  • improve help output (Matthias Clasen)

  • update man page (Matthias Clasen)

  • desktop-file-validate

  • update-desktop-database

  • misc

• • do not require glib >= 2.28 for build (Vincent)

  • update to current version of menu specification (Vincent):

  • accept and validate GNOME3/GSettings for AutostartCondition (Vincent)

  • output hint if more than one main category is present (Vincent)

  • output hint about suggested related categories (Vincent)

  • only print hint if no main category is present, not an error

  • make Science a main category

  • add new registered categories: Adult, Feed, Humanities, Maps, Shooter, Spirituality, XFCE

  • update related categories

  • add TDE to list of registered OnlyShowIn

  • desktop-file-validate

  • misc

• • add MATE and Razor to list of registered environments (Vincent)

  • validate Desktop Actions (Giovanni Campagna, Vincent)

  • fix list of locale strings without trailing slash (Matthias Clasen)

  • desktop-file-install

  • desktop-file-validate

• • modernize build system a bit (Vincent)

  • update man pages (Vincent)

  • 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)

  • 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)

  • 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-install

  • desktop-file-validate

  • update-desktop-database

  • misc

• • improve build system (Vincent)

  • minor documentation fixes (Vincent)

  • sort mime types alphabetically in generated cache (Vincent)

  • accept x-scheme-handler/* mime types (Vincent)

  • accept x-scheme-handler/* mime types (Vincent)

  • desktop-file-validate

  • update-desktop-database

  • misc

• • improve build system (Vincent)

  • update documentation (Vincent)

  • add man pages (Vincent)

  • 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)

  • accept chemical/* mime types as valid types (Vincent)

  • make icon names with an extension for Icon key a non-fatal error (Vincent)

  • desktop-file-validate

  • update-desktop-database

  • misc

• • use AM_SILENT_RULES (Vincent)

  • improve build system (Vincent)

  • 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)

  • 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)

  • do not unlink the destination file if it's the same as the source file in desktop-file-install (Vincent)

  • desktop-file-install

  • desktop-file-validate

  • update-desktop-database

  • misc

• • 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)

• • 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)

• • 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)

• • 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)

• • 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)

• • Remove all menus code (Mark McLoughlin)

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

• • Many update-desktop-database improvements (Ray Strode, Dan Williams)

  • Fix desktop-file-install --remove-only-show-in (Ray Strode)

• • 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

  • Fix various leaks (Kjartan Maraas)

  • Update with latest libegg code (Ray Strode)

  • Menu method work (Mark McLoughlin, Dan Williams)

• • 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)

• • 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

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

• • Add support for "Desktop Action" sections

• • 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

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

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