[Portland] [ANNOUNCE] Xdg-utils 1.1.0-rc1

[Fathi Boudra]

The long awaited release of Xdg-utils is now available, fixing a lots of bugs.

http://portland.freedesktop.org/download/xdg-utils-1.1.0-rc1.tar.gz

This release contains the following new features:
   * KDE 4 support
   * LXDE support
   * xdg-settings utility, a script to get various settings from the desktop
     environment

The changes from 1.0.2 are as follows:

   * xdg-mime: correct install text to use type/subtype.
     Thanks to Christopher Yeleighton. (BR31441)
   * xdg-open: declare file variable as local. (BR32487)
   * xdg-open: decode file:// urls. Thanks to Henning Garus.
   * xdg-screensaver: support X server blanking. Thanks to Ben Hutchings.

   * xdg-utils-common: fixup kfmclient_fix_exit_code() for newer kde-config
     output
   * xdg-mime: fix typo in manpage
   * xdg-email: Thunderbird is not detected with localized (BR31740)

   * add lxde support (BR26058)

   * xdg-settings: Only run KDE browser fallback when necessary. Otherwise,
     in some circumstances, read_kde_browser incorrectly prints the result
     twice. Thanks to David Benjamin.

    * xdg-email: Fix e-mail attachements support with Thunderbird3 (BR13435)

    * xdg-mime: update the required section "[Added Associations]"
      Thanks to Mike Mammarella.

    * xdg-email: Fix missing backslash in awk script so that it works with
      mawk.

    * xdg-desktop-icon: set the execute bit to desktop file.
      Thanks to Damjan Jovanovic. (BR28394)

    * xdg-screensaver: consider gnome-screensaver a separate DE (BR20027)

    * xdg-mime : use 'gnomevfs-info --slow-mime' (BR 13939)

    * xdg-desktop-icon :  use localized desktop folder name (BR19011)

    * xdg-open : use mimeopen -L (follow symlinks)

    * xdg-open.1 : add FILES, SEE ALSO sections

    * xdg-open: Spaces in filename (BR27959)

    * xdg-email and xdg-open: perform BROWSER check in any case.
      Thanks to Andrea Florio. (BR27551)

    * xdg-email: try console mode browsers and update the browser list.

    * xdg-utils-common: fix the comment of exit_failure_file_permission_write
      function. (BR12821)

    * xdg-open: fix regression in open_generic as xdg-mime doesn't handle
      URLs (mimeopen and run-mailcap as well). Move xdg-mime call into
      a new function (open_generic_xdg_mime). Check input file before
      trying to open them with non-browsers.

    * xdg-open: fix failure if $BROWSER has arguments. (BR14374)
      Thanks to Johannes Wegener.

    * xdg-open: try console mode browsers and update the browser list.
      Thanks to Ville Skyttä and Pablo Castellano. (BR14361)

    * xdg-screensaver: use dbus-send instead of qdbus for freedesktop
      screensaver.

    * xdg-mime: improve MIME string check when using gnomevfs-info. (BR12818)

    * xdg-mime: report error on failure.

    * xdg-open: in open_generic, use xdg-mime to lookup mime type and
      association before the alternatives methods (mimeopen and run-mailcap).
      (BR23280)

    * Add gvfs-copy and gvfs-info support. (BR15828)

    * xdg-settings: Add %s to the command in the Gnome url handlers (BR26284)

    * xdg-screensaver resume activates the screensaver on KDE4 (BR26085)

    * prefer gvfs-open over gnome-open
    * DE=gnome, if org.gnome.SessionManager exists on dbus

    * Fix xdg-email --attach failure with Evolution. (BR23007)
      Thanks to Dwayne Bailey

    * Add an extra check in xdg-open and call kfmclient openURL as a fallback
      on KDE 4. Thanks to Nicolas Lécureil.

    * Add email attachments support to Thunderbird from xdg-email. (BR13435)
      Thanks to Lei Zhang.

    * Fix xdg-open to handle URL with '#' symbol. (BR23319, BR24375)

    * Remove bash requirement to xdg-open and xdg-email. (BR20015)

    * Update xdg-settings - Thanks to Mike Mammarella:
      This fixes some issues where user-generated icons would be detected as
      the official .desktop file for a binary, rather than the actual version.
      (It resolves forward and compares binaries rather than resolving backward
      to a .desktop file from a binary)

    * Use kde-open, if available (ie, KDE 4)

    * detect_de: suppress xprop stderr.

    * fix build for missing manpages (eg. xdg-settings)

    * Fix hardcoded KDE home directory. Use kde(4)-config to get path.

    * Apply patch from Mike Mammarella to fix 2 issues:
      - skip invisible desktop files when looking up the default web browser in
        GNOME. (http://codereview.chromium.org/159738)
      - check for localized settings by hand in xdg-settings if kreadconfig
        fails. (http://codereview.chromium.org/160376)

    * Replace kfmclient by kioclient usage under KDE 4.
      Thanks to Nicolas Lécureil.

    * Remove fixup_mandriva_categories() function. It is not needed anymore
      since a year. Thanks to Nicolas Lécureil.

    * Merge xdg-settings utility: a script to get various settings from
      the desktop environment. Thanks to Dan Kegel and Google Inc.

    * Fix hardcoded path in make_default_kde() in xdg-mime unde KDE 3.
      Add initial KDE 4 support to the function.

    * Use kbuildsycoca4 under KDE 4 and kbuildsycoca under KDE 3.

    * Use kmimetypefinder under KDE 4 and kfile under KDE 3.

    * Add KDE 4 support to xdg-mime. kdetradertest was replaced by
      ktraderclient under KDE 4. (BR22975)

    * Remove -u option from su. It doesn't have it.

    * Add KDE 4 support to xdg-email (BR17268)

    * Sleep for 50s instead of 59s to avoid to froze the seesion (BR19414)

    * Fix a race condition in xdg-screensaver (BR19382)

    * Fix basename usage when filename contains spaces (BR18567)

    * Fix bashisms used in xdg-mime and xdg-screensaver (BR15827)

    * initial support for KDE 4
    * Add dbus commands to xdg-screensaver for KDE 4 (BR17537)

    * Fixing security issue in xdg-email and xdg-open at replacing
      parameter in $BROWSER

    * Fix xdg-mime query filetype on XFCE (BR11383)

Thanks to all contributors and happy new year!

Regards,
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Fathi