how to loading .desktop files

Development

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

Download

Tarballs can be found at http://www.freedesktop.org/software/desktop-file-utils/releases/

• http://www.freedesktop.org/software/desktop-file-utils/releases/desktop-file-utils-0.22.tar.xz

• 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

• http://www.freedesktop.org/software/desktop-file-utils/releases/desktop-file-utils-0.21.tar.xz

• 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

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

• 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

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

• 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

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

• 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

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

• 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

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

• 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

• 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

• 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)

• 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.