Desktop files describe applications to show in GNOME or KDE menus:
desktop-file-validate checks whether a .desktop file complies with the
specification at http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/;
desktop-file-install installs a desktop file to the standard directory,
optionally fixing it up in the process.
For more info see the project home page:
https://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/desktop-file-utils
For changes since the previous Cygwin release see below:
2023-10-05 0.27
desktop-file-validate
- Support desktop spec version 1.5
- Add LXQt to categories
- Use DDE category for Deepin desktop
- Add Endless to list of desktop IDs
- Fix field code escaping in messages
desktop-entry-mode.el
- Highlight action groups when ID includes hyphens
common
- Minor updates to project documentation.
- Add --version support to utilities
- Add pledge(2) support to remaining utilities
- Remove Autotools support.
2020-06-19 0.26
This version fixes an error that snuck into the Meson build files in
version 0.25. The Autotools build is unaffected. Since the previous
release has only been out for a day, Autotools support is maintained in
this release.
update-desktop-database
- Fix erroneous installation as "desktop-file-update" when using the
Meson build system
2020-06-18 0.25
This version adds support for the Meson build system and deprecates
Autotools. Support for the latter will be removed in the next release.
desktop-file-validate
- Allow desktop file spec version 1.4.
- Make it possible to deprecate keys starting with "X-"
- Add the "Implements" field from spec version 1.2
- Add the "PrefersNonDefaultGPU" key and deprecate "X-KDE-RunOnDiscreteGpu"
- Set locale for correct output message encoding
- Add coloured output support
- Fix parsing of escaped double quote in quoted strings
- Add GNOME Flashback, GNOME Classic desktops
common
- Add Meson build system
2019-07-25 0.24
desktop-file-validate
- Allow desktop file spec version 1.2
- Add Budgie, Deepin, Enlightenment and Pantheon to list of
registered desktop environments
update-desktop-database
- Sort output lines internally to conserve reproduceability
- Use pledge(2) on OpenBSD to limit capabilities
common
- Fix missing ; when appending to a list not ending with one
- Add font as valid media type
- Fix broken emacs blocking compile
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