New Features
- Add button to test launchers without saving (LP: #1315875)
- Add button to sort menu directory contents alphabetically (LP: #1315536)
- Allow creation of subdirectories in preinstalled system paths (LP: #1315872)
- New Parsing Errors log for notifying about bad desktop files
- New Layout Preferences! Budgie, GNOME, and Pantheon will utilize client side decorations by default while all other desktops use a more traditional toolbar and server side decorations. Users can define their preference with the -b and -t commandline flags.
General
- Use the folder icon instead of applications-other (LP: #1605905)
- Use switches for Hidden and DBusActivatable keys
- Include additional non-standard by commonly-used categories
- Added support for "Implements" key
- Added Cinnamon, EDE, LXQt, and Pantheon to list of supported ShowIn DEs
- Replaced KeyFile backend with GLib.KeyFile for better support
- Version key bumped to the 1.1 version of the specification
Bug Fixes
- Invalid categories added to first launcher in top-level directory under Xfce (LP: #1605973)
- Categories created by Alacarte not respected, custom launchers deleted (LP: #1315880)
- Some categories cannot be removed from a launcher (LP: #1307002)
- Make hidden items italic (LP: #1310261)
- Exit application when Ctrl-C is pressed in the terminal (LP: #1702725)
- Catch exceptions when saving and display an error (LP: #1444668)
- Automatically replace ~ with full home directory (LP: #1732099)
- TypeError when adding a launcher and nothing is selected in the directory view (LP: #1556664)
- Limit when items can be moved up or down, preventing subdirectories from leaving parent directories
- Fix display of newly hidden directories
- Fix markup errors in tooltips and labels
Updated Translations
- Brazilian Portuguese, Catalan, Croatian, Danish, French, Galician, German, Italian, Kazakh, Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Ukrainian
- Translation templates have been updated with simplified strings and notes for every string used in MenuLibre. This should make adding additional translations much easier in the future.