desktop-file-utils

desktop-file-utils contains a few command line utilities for working with desktop entries. It requires GLib to compile, because the implementation requires Unicode utilities and such.

Right now the only documentation is the --help output for the utilities (desktop-file-install, desktop-file-validate and update-desktop-database).

CVS

The CVS module for this spec is "menus/desktop-file-utils". You can browse it with ViewCVS.

Download

• 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 2008-02-11 19:31:35 by VincentUntz)

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