xdg-desktop-entry

Parse files conforming to the xdg desktop entry spec

https://github.com/taffybar/taffybar/tree/master/packages/xdg-desktop-entry

LTS Haskell 24.57:0.1.1.5
Stackage Nightly 2026-09-07:0.1.1.6
Latest on Hackage:0.1.1.6

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BSD-3-Clause licensed by Ivan Malison
Maintained by [email protected]
This version can be pinned in stack with:xdg-desktop-entry-0.1.1.6@sha256:e587b362c12ef48fe05a6331689fc034b99454c08431e69498acfaffcf35bc2c,1895

Module documentation for 0.1.1.6

Used by 1 package in nightly-2026-09-07(full list with versions):
taffybar

Parse files conforming to the xdg desktop entry spec.

Changes

Revision history for xdg-desktop-entry

0.1.1.6 – 2026-09-04

  • Replace the ini based parser with one that follows the desktop entry specification. Localised keys such as Name[de] and GenericName[ar] no longer make readDesktopEntry fail, so nearly every real-world desktop file now parses. Files are decoded as UTF-8 regardless of the process locale.
  • Drop the ini and unordered-containers dependencies.

0.1.1.5 – 2026-05-13

  • Clean up parser and test warnings for newer GHC releases.

0.1.1.4 – 2026-03-15

  • Relax transformers upper bound to support 0.6.x, including GHC 9.12.4 RC snapshots.
  • Update package metadata to point at the taffybar monorepo subtree.

0.1.1.3 – 2026-02-09

  • Relax ini upper bound to support 0.5.x (fixes Stackage compatibility)
  • Fix partial head usage for GHC 9.12 compatibility
  • Tested with GHC 9.8.4, 9.10.3, 9.12.3

0.1.0.0 – YYYY-mm-dd

  • First version. Released on an unsuspecting world.