Version 0.25 (December 2012)
* Add support for $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR, Debian bug #656338.
* Allow desktop entry files that are not encoded in UTF-8, Debian bug #693855.
* Mime: Add support for subclasses and aliases.
Version 0.24 (October 2012)
* Update allowed DesktopEntry categories following changes to the
specification.
* Fix removal of empty submenu, freedesktop bug #54747.
* Documentation is now available on RTD: http://pyxdg.readthedocs.org/
* A few more tests, and some code cleanup.
* Fix failure to parse some menu files when kde-config is missing,
freedesktop bug #56426.
Version 0.23 (July 2012)
* Fix a test for non-UTF-8 locales.
Version 0.22 (July 2012)
* Better unicode handling in several modules.
* Fix for sorting non-ASCII menu entries, freedesktop bug #52492.
* More tests.
Version 0.21 (July 2012)
* Tests can now be run conveniently using nosetests, and cover more of the
code.
* BaseDirectory: New save_cache_path() function, freedesktop bug #26458.
* Config: Default icon theme is 'hicolor', not 'highcolor'.
* Menu: Obsolete Rule.compile() method removed.
* DesktopEntry: Corrected spelling of checkCategories() method, freedesktop
bug #24974.
* DesktopEntry: Consider Actions and Keywords keys standard.
* DesktopEntry: Accept non-ASCII Keywords.
* DesktopEntry: Update list of environments valid for OnlyShowIn.
* Mime: Fix get_type_by_contents() in Python 3.
* RecentFiles: Minor bug fixes.
Version 0.20 (June 2012)
* Compatible with Python 3; requires Python 2.6 or later
* Clean up accidental GPL license notice in Menu.py
* Add test scripts for xdg.Mime, xdg.Locale and xdg.RecentFiles
* Fixes for icon theme validation
* Fix exception in xdg.Mime
* Replace invalid string exceptions
* Fall back to default base directories if $XDG* environment variables are
set but empty.
* Remove use of deprecated os.popen3 in Menu.py
* Correct URLs in README
either because they themselves are not ready or because a
dependency isn't. This is annotated by
PYTHON_VERSIONS_INCOMPATIBLE= 33 # not yet ported as of x.y.z
or
PYTHON_VERSIONS_INCOMPATIBLE= 33 # py-foo, py-bar
respectively, please use the same style for other packages,
and check during updates.
Use versioned_dependencies.mk where applicable.
Use REPLACE_PYTHON instead of handcoded alternatives, where applicable.
Reorder Makefile sections into standard order, where applicable.
Remove PYTHON_VERSIONS_INCLUDE_3X lines since that will be default
with the next commit.
Whitespace cleanups and other nits corrected, where necessary.
Based on PR#43747 by Kamel Derouiche.
Version 0.19
* IniFile.py: add support for trusted desktop files (thanks to karl mikaelsson)
* DesktopEntry.py: Support spec version 1.0, Debian bug #563660
* MimeType.py: Fix parsing of in memory data, Debian bug #563718
* DesktopEntry.py: Fix constructor, Debian bug #551297, #562951, #562952
Version 0.18
* DesktopEntry.py: Add getMimeTypes() method, correctly returning strings
* DesktopEntry.py: Deprecated getMimeType() returning list of regex
* Menu.py: Add support for XDG_MENU_PREFIX
* Mime.py: Add get_type_by_contents()
PyXDG is a python library to access freedesktop.org standards.
The following are currently supported:
* Base Directory Specification Version 0.6
* Menu Specification Version 1.0-draft1
* Desktop Entry Specification Version 0.9.4
* Icon Theme Specification Version 0.8
* Recent File Spec 0.2
* Shared-MIME-Database Specification 0.13
