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[SmartFinn]

Here is the first stage of improvements to the next version hardcode-fixer.

There is a simple diagram that can help to understand how the script works dia.pdf.

Requires

• bash >= 4 (included in all actual distros)
• GNU sed
• awk (prefer gawk but should work with any version)
• wget | curl (curl is not installed by default in Ubuntu 16.10 and newer, wget is not installed by default in Manjaro)

Features

• Supports XDG Base Directory Specification Problem snap #310
• Converts invalid icon formats to png Dealing with Invalid Icon Formats #306
• No requires root permission Why system-wide fixing? #178
• Auto-translate application name to icon name if matches not found in tofix.csv capitalized desktop filename #220 Icon name issue #285
• Extendable code (as much as possible in bash)
• Has two user interface:
  • Simple interactive menu (when args or commands not passed)
    Extremely useful when executing via 'Run in Terminal' and through a pipe: wget -qO- URL | bash.
  • Advanced command line.

    # the commands in this example do the same
    hardcode-fixer -Av
    hardcode-fixer --apply --verbose
    hardcode-fixer apply -v

• Fixes launchers on user desktop and hides backup files to avoid littering
• Compatible with current version of tofix.csv

Limitations

• doesn't work in BSD-systems. It's easy to fix, but the code will be ugly.
• can't undo changes that made by the previous version (from master branch)

ToDo

• cleanup tofix.csv:
  • remove duplicates with the same app name
  • fix the wrong app names
  • delete Steam app entries
• fix launchers with non-standard extensions (Icon=zotero.ico, etc..)
• add bash and zsh completions
• add colors for output messages (?)

NOTE: This PR can be merged. The improvements in the list will be added in another.

[SmartFinn]

The command for quick testing:

wget -qO- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/SmartFinn/hardcode-fixer/next/fix.sh | VERBOSE=1 bash

[SmartFinn]

Comparing the result of converting .desktop filename/app name to icon name -https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/10kCgOZZMnlfBbLea29saV7fThUDwSYGsciRmyyhl-LQ/edit?usp=sharing

I think converting from app name is more predictable.