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.