r3.1 released 2024-07-31

Note

If you're updating from version r2.18, you should read the r3.0 release notes first, because this release introduced major changes to j4-dmenu-desktop.

Breaking changes

Version r3.1 introduces a stricter handling mechanism for desktop files. This means that desktop files which weren't conforming to the Desktop entry specification may stop working when using j4-dmenu-desktop version r3.1, even though they have worked in previous versions. Nonconforming desktop files should be modified to fix conformance issues.

See #175 and #174 (comment) for examples of nonconformant desktop files and their corrections. A common problem is using invalid escape sequences (like escaping a space with \ ) in the Exec key.

Changelog

• changed GPG signing key (see #146)
• fixed a lot of bugs introduced by r3.0 release:
  • fixed bug with --no-exec not outputting terminal emulator for Terminal=true applications: #166
  • fixed hidden desktop files not participating in desktop ID precedence rules: #167
  • fixed unit tests being dependent on current locale: #170
  • fixed default value of $XDG_DATA_DIRS when unset/empty: #171
  • fixed --no-exec printing to stderr instead of stdout: #152
  • fix minor bugs
• added --term-mode to fix deprecation of "gnome-terminal -e" and to handle other terminal emulators well too (related to #119)
• revorked and improved entire command line assembly mechanism
• added explicit support for Sway using existing i3 IPC infrastructure (discussed in #166)
• improved Exec mechanism (see 7efae31)
• added pytest testsuite: #164

New Contributors

• Thanks to @joanbm for their first contribution in #170!