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Version 0.23
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desktop-file-validate
- Accept version 1.1 desktop files (Matthias Clasen).
- Add Cinnamon, EDE and LXQt to the list of registered desktop environments
(fdo#73497, fdo#56353, fdo#79561) (Michael Webster, David Faure,
Jauhien Piatlicki).
- Allow multipart/related MIME type; it's used for MHTML (fdo#93376)
(Hans Petter Jansson).
- Ensure DBusActivatable filenames conform to reverse-DNS notation
(fdo#66904) (Hans Petter Jansson).
- Downgrade trailing semicolons to optional (fdo#76902) (Jerome Leclanche).
- Fix buffer over-read (fdo#94303) (Hans Petter Jansson; reported by
Hanno Boeck and Agostino Sarubbo).
============
Version 0.22
============
desktop-file-validate
- 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)
update-desktop-database
- list only once a desktop file per mime type (Vincent)
misc
- honor NOCONFIGURE=1 (Colin Walters)
============
Version 0.21
============
desktop-file-validate
- update to current version of menu specification (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
- 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)
misc
- do not require glib >= 2.28 for build (Vincent)
============
Version 0.20
============
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)
============
Version 0.19
============
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)
============
Version 0.18
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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)
============
Version 0.17
============
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)
============
Version 0.16
============
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)
============
Version 0.15
============
o make the extension check for Icon key a warning instead of an error for now
(Ray Strode)
o Fix a crash in update-desktop-database when there's no group (Vincent)
o Fix a crash in the validator happening for very small lines (Vincent)
============
Version 0.14
============
o update of the Emacs editing mode for .desktop files (Ville Skyttä)
o 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)
o make the validator check the content of the Icon key (Vincent)
o make the validator accept X-Foo as a valid environment (this was added to
the spec) (Stanislav Brabec, Vincent)
o really handle the -m command line argument for desktop-file-install
(Matthias Clasen)
o 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)
o make desktop-file-install validate the created desktop file before removing
the original file, and unlink it if it's not valid (Vincent)
o code cleanups for desktop-file-install (Vincent)
============
Version 0.13
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o rewrite validator, and update it for desktop entry specification 1.0.
The validator should be stricter and report more useful messages.
(Vincent)
o add --warn-kde and --no-warn-deprecated command line options to
desktop-file-validate (Vincent)
o port desktop-file-install to GKeyFile (Vincent)
o don't require --vendor for desktop-file-install (Vincent)
o some general module cleanup (Vincent)
============
Version 0.12
============
o improves category validation code to not catch false positives (Vincent Fretin, Ville Skyttä, Ray Strode, Vincent Untz)
o make category validation code non-fatal (Ray)
o fix mem leaks and double frees (Pascal Terjan)
============
Version 0.11
============
o Validate desktop file categories (Emmet Hikory, Vincent Untz)
o Use GKeyFile instead of the old egg code in update-desktop-database (Vincent)
o Use GOption instead of popt (Vincent)
o Fix grammar problem in one of the strings (Moritz Barsnick)
o NULL terminate search patch in update-desktop-database (Mike Hearn)
o Fix language to encoding mapping to match spec (Ville Skyttä)
============
Version 0.10
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o Remove all menus code (Mark McLoughlin)
o Don't try and add key/value pairs to comments (Miloslav Trmac)
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Version 0.9
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o Many update-desktop-database improvements (Ray Strode, Dan Williams)
o Fix desktop-file-install --remove-only-show-in (Ray Strode)
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Version 0.8
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o Fix various leaks (Kjartan Maraas)
o Update with latest libegg code (Ray Strode)
o 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
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Version 0.7
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o Add update-desktop-database (Ray Strode)
o Emacs editing mode for .desktop files (Ville Skyttä)
o Update to latest spec, improve error messages (Ville Skyttä)
o Warning fixes (Mark McLoughlin)
o distcheck fixes (Jonathan Blandford)
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Version 0.6
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o Bring up to date with version 0.8 of the menu spec
o Don't crash when a .desktop file is a symlink to a non-existant file
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Version 0.5
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o Don't segfault with .desktop files which have a leading comment
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Version 0.4
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o Add support for "Desktop Action" sections
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Version 0.3
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o Create target dir of desktop-file-install if nonexistent;
o improve some error messages
o fix OnlyShowIn? handling
o add --print-available option to dump desktop files being considered by desktop-menu-tool
o rename obsolete [KDE Desktop Entry] section if found
o fix a crash
o verify proper spelling of KDE and GNOME in OnlyShowIn?
o add a --remove-key option; check that string lists end in a semicolon
o add --copy-name-to-generic-name and vice versa
o fix bug in --delete-original that made it not work
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Version 0.2
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o Adds desktop-menu-tool to parse vfolder menus and generate a symlink tree or just print them out.
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Version 0.1
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o Initial release. Contains desktop-file-validate and desktop-file-install.
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