Version 0.28 (June 2022)
* BaseDirectory: Add support for $XDG_STATE_DIR
Version 0.27 (October 2020)
* Fix some ResourceWarnings
* Fix compatibility with Python >= 3.8.4
* Fix some bugs in xdg.Menu
Version 0.26 ()
* DesktopEntry: Add a method to check the existence of the TryExec value,
Debian bug #618514.
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
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()
Version 0.17
2008-10-30 Heinrich Wendel <h_wendel@cojobo.net>
* Menu.py: Python <= 2.3 compatibility fix
* DesktopEntry.py: Fix wrong indention
Version 0.16
2008-08-07 Heinrich Wendel <h_wendel@cojobo.net>
* IconTheme.py: Add more directories to the pixmap path
2008-03-02 Heinrich Wendel <h_wendel@cojobo.net>
* IniFile.py: Fix saving of relative filenames
* IniFile.py, DesktopEntry.py: Fix __cmp__ method
* IniFile.py, IconTheme.py: Better error handling
Version 0.15
2005-08-10 Heinrich Wendel <h_wendel@cojoob.net>
* Menu.py: Add support for TryExec
2005-08-09 Heinrich Wendel <h_wendel@cojobo.net>
* Menu.py: Unicode bug fixed!
* IconTheme.py: small speedup
2005-08-04 Heinrich Wendel <h_wendel@cojobo.net>
* Menu.py, IconTheme.py: Bugfixes...
* MenuEditor.py: Make xml nice; add hide/unhide functions
Versinon 0.14
2005-06-02 Heinrich Wendel <h_wendel@cojobo.net>
* Menu.py, MenuEditor.py: Bugfixes...
version 0.13
2005-06-01 Heinrich Wendel <h_wendel@cojobo.net>
* Menu.py, MenuEditor.py: Bugfixes...
* Config.py: Add root_mode
Version 0.12
2005-05-30 Heinrich Wendel <h_wendel@cojobo.net>
* MenuEditor.py: New in this release, use to edit Menus thx to Travis
Watkins <alleykat@gmail.com> and Matt Kynaston <mattkyn@gmail.com> for
their help
* Menu.py, IniFile.py, DesktopEntry.py: Lot of bugfixing...
* BaseDirectory.py: Add xdg_cache_home
* IconTheme.py, Config.py: More caching stuff, make cachetime
configurable
Version 0.11
2005-05-23 Heinrich Wendel <h_wendel@cojobo.net>
* DesktopEntry.p, Menu.py: A lot of bugfixes, thx to Travis Watkins
<alleykat@gmail.com>
2005-05-02 Heinrich Wendel <h_wendel@cojobo.net>
* Config.py:
Module to configure Basic Settings, currently available:
- Locale, IconTheme, IconSize, WindowManager
* Locale.py:
Internal Module to support Locales
* Mime.py:
Implementation of the Mime Specification
* Menu.py:
Now supports LegacyDirs
* RecentFiles.py:
Implementation of the Recent Files Specification
Version 0.10
2005-04-26 Heinrich Wendel <h_wendel@cojobo.net>
* Menu.py:
various bug fixing to support version 1.0.draft-1
2005-04-13 Heinrich Wendel <h_wendel@cojobo.net>
* IniFily.py:
Detect if a .desktop file was edited
* Menu.py
Fix bug caused by excluding NoDisplay/Hidden Items to early
Version 0.9
2005-03-23 Heinrich Wendel <h_wendel@cojobo.net>
* IniFile.py:
various speedups
* Menu.py:
add support for <MergeFile type="parent">, menu-spec-0.91
2005-03-21 Heinrich Wendel <h_wendel@cojobo.net>
* IniFily.py:
Small fixes
* Menu.py:
remove __preparse and don't edit the parsed document, so menu editing is
possible
store parsed document in Menu.Doc
store document name in Menu.Filename
2005-03-18 Heinrich Wendel <h_wendel@cojobo.net>
* Menu.py:
fix basename argument, thx to Matt Kynaston <mattkyn@gmail.com>;
make it comply to menu-spec-0.9
2004-30-11 Heinrich Wendel <h_wendel@cojobo.net>
* Update BaseDirectory.py to the current ROX version
Version 0.8
2004-10-18 Ross Burton <ross@burtonini.com>
* xdg/DesktopEntry.py, xdg/IconTheme.py:
Add . to the literal FileExtensions so that the checks work.
* xdg/Menu.py:
Don't read .desktop-* files, only .desktop
2004-10-18 Martin Grimme <martin@pycage.de>
* xdg/IconTheme.py (getIconPath): The "hicolor" theme has to be used as
the fallback.
* xdg/IniFile.py (IniFile.getList): Fixed bug in splitting up strings.
Version 0.7
2004-09-04 Heinrich Wendel <h_wendel@cojobo.net>
* Add 'import codecs' to IniFile, needed by write support
* Fix parsing of lists with only one entry
Version 0.6
2004-08-04 Heinrich Wendel <h_wendel@cojobo.net>
* Performance Improvements
Version 0.5
2004-03-29 Heinrich Wendel <h_wendel@cojobo.net>
* Finished Support for menu-spec 0.7
2004-03-27 Heinrich Wendel <h_wendel@cojobo.net>
* 5* speed improvement in Menu.py parsing code
2004-03-20 Heinrich Wendel <h_wendel@cojobo.net>
* check values of Categories/OnlyShowIn keys
* various misc changes
2004-03-17 Martin Grimme <martin@pycage.de>
* xdg/Menu.py (__preparse):
* xdg/IconTheme.py (IconTheme.parse): Made compatible with Python 2.3
(None is a keyword).
(__parseTheme): Prepend new icon themes to make sure that they have
priority when looking up icons.
(icondirs): Add "~/.icons" to the paths where to look for icons. Users
may have icon themes installed in their home directory.
2003-10-08 Heinrich Wendel <h_wendel@cojobo.net>
* Completed write-support in IniFile
2003-10-05 Heinrich Wendel <h_wendel@cojobo.net>
* Added support for Hidden and NoDisplay in menu-spec
* inital write-support in IniFile
2003-10-04 Heinrich Wendel <h_wendel@cojobo.net>
* License change to LGPL-2
* initial support for menu-spec 0.7
Version 0.4
2003-09-30 Heinrich Wendel <h_wendel@cojobo.net>
* Bugfix release
Version 0.3
2003-09-12 Heinrich Wendel <h_wendel@cojobo.net>
* Complete IconSpec implementation, including cache and validation
2003-09-07 Heinrich Wendel <h_wendel@cojobo.net>
* Basedir spec converted to version 0.6
* First part of separating DesktopEntry backend in IniFile
* added getPath(...) function to Menu.py
Version 0.2
2003-09-05 Heinrich Wendel <h_wendel@cojobo.net>
* Rewrite of menu-spec code
* Taken basedir-spec code from ROX
Version 0.1
2003-08-08 Heinrich Wendel <h_wendel@cojobo.net>
* initial public release