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1 News in 0.5.0:
2 * This is new minor version and bug correction release. It extends
3 the documentation and FAQ on many topics, includes many fixes
4 to the autotools scripts (special thanks to Steve Langasek
5 <vorlon@debian.org>), regularises a few exceptions in the
6 interpreter, adds support to WM-specific contextual menu, adds a few
7 use cases scripts under test/, and adds a brand new adesklets installer
8 (adesklets_installer) for automated download and unpacking of desklets.
10 News in 0.4.12:
11 * This is a bug fix release. It corrects an error with the distributed
12 documentation makefile that prevented info files and manual pages from
13 installing right on arbitrary, empty directory trees (thanks to Bart
14 Kreska for the patch). It also add support for nautilus and KDE >=3.4.1,
15 as well as preliminary support for ROX-Filer and xffm-deskview. It
16 should rectify a long-standing issue with some desklets failing to
17 complete their initial display. Finally, the documentation FAQ was
18 slightly expanded.
20 News in 0.4.11:
21 * This is a bug fix release. Documentation wize, it brings the
22 french documentation up to speed with the english version
23 (thanks to Martin Kirchgessner martin.kirch@gmail.com for
24 all his work), and take the whole documentation source and
25 html version out of the main package (thanks to this, adesklets
26 is now about 300 KB lighter). Code wize, this version includes
27 many small fixes for various platforms \u2013 FreeBSD 7 should
28 hopefully be supported unpatched, manuals have been added for
29 desklets submission script to please Debian. Yet, the biggest
30 change is probably the inclusion of an optional shell driver
31 to the interpreter, that ease up the administration of adesklets
32 and the quick adaptation of the code to new windows managers.
34 News in 0.4.10:
35 * This is a bug fix release. An unwanted partial new feature made is way
36 into previous release: it caused the contextual menu to stop working
37 the advertised way (the control key needed to be pressed for the menu to
38 get fired). This release just revert back the change, and add a
39 configuration-time option, --enable-control-on-context-menu, for
40 those who really wants this behavior.
42 News in 0.4.9:
43 * This is a bug fix release. It changes the global macro definitions
44 for adesklets to compile without problems on FreeBSD 6.x, corrects
45 an error with debugging flag stripping from the C compiler,
46 and adds a new demo program about threading.
48 News in 0.4.8:
49 * This is a bug fix release. It changes the global macro definitions
50 for adesklets to compile without problems on FreeBSD 5.x, and it also
51 adds fake root window detection for KDE, thanks to yogi77, from the
52 forum.
54 News in 0.4.7:
55 * This is a bug fix release. It removes calls to some C99 math routines
56 not available in earlier BSD's, make the code more portable. It also
57 adds two new commands to the API for handling the images caching
58 mechanism better.
60 News in 0.4.6:
61 * This is a bug fix and documentation update release. It corrects
62 many small bugs inside the desklets submission process scripts,
63 makes portability changes to the autoconf structure, adds a new demo
64 scripts in test (widget.py), corrects the xwindow_move_window routine
65 for a small placement bugs on the screen (thanks to man1ed from
66 the forum from providing the patch), and finally add a new
67 appendix containing a handy online version of Imlib2 documentation.
69 News in 0.4.5:
70 * This is a bug fix and documentation update release. It improves
71 the desklets submission process by releasing the full check
72 in script used by the maintainer. It also solves a bug
73 with window refresh when using user-defined background image
74 and menus: thanks to ZeroDivide for reporting this.
75 Various updates and correction have also been made to the documentation.
77 News in 0.4.4:
78 * This is a documentation update release, principally aimed
79 at desklets authors. It basically includes a new appendix
80 on how to submit a desklet (including scripted support),
81 and a new subsection on system-wide fonts detection as well.
82 FAQ was also expanded to cover this topic.
84 News in 0.4.3:
85 * This is a documentation update release. Most of the work here
86 was made by Mike Pirnat exilejedi@users.sourceforge.net,
87 who was kind enough to rectify the base author's deficient english
88 by proofreading this manual from cover to cover. Thanks Mike!
89 The FAQ was also slightly expanded, and a new appendix for desklets
90 writer created.
92 News in 0.4.2:
93 * This is a new bug fix release. It corrects a bug within
94 the python package that made if not compile on all of
95 Python < 2.4.0. Thanks to nucular, from the adesklets forum,
96 for reporting this. It also corrects another minor mmap
97 related issue in the same package.
99 News in 0.4.1:
100 * This is anew bug fix release. It secures the use of optional
101 adesklets.ConfigFile class by completely changing the way
102 config files are imported, removing a potential security exploit.
103 Thanks to Mike Pirnat <exilejedi@users.sourceforge.net> for
104 sharing his concerns on this issue.
106 News in 0.4.0:
107 * This is a new minor version release. The interpreter now support
108 internationalization - It can now dynamically work with different
109 charsets on platforms supporting iconv (as standardized in UNIX98), and
110 display them in the right fashion. Python package was also extended
111 to include an (optional) generic configuration class, hopefully useful
112 to desklets authors.
114 News in 0.3.2:
115 * This is a documentation update release. Documentation was added for
116 python programmers, FAQ was slightly expanded.
118 News in 0.3.1:
119 * This is new bug fix release. It just adds support for interruption
120 of time gates by events. This is a feature absolutely required to make
121 some timed effects possible.
123 News in 0.3.0:
124 * This is a new minor version release. Portability has been a big concern
125 for us since the beginning; with this version, the package compile
126 and run flawlessly on FreeBSD and NetBSD. Events handling has also been
127 internally streamlined, and the python binding was extended to support
128 dynamic modification of caught events (see test/test_events.py).
130 * The interpreter API now expose everything the author wanted,
131 and will probably not be expanded much further; everything is pretty
132 much in place to write any desklet, including animations.
134 News in 0.2.1:
135 * This is a minor bug fix release - it removes a compatibility bug
136 within the GNU history library usage. Thanks to Mike Pirnat
137 for reporting this.
139 News in 0.2.0:
140 * New minor version release. Added support for textual variables
141 (strings substitution, in fact), and execution of timed preregistered
142 sequences of commands to the interpreter (indirect mode of execution);
143 this gives desklets a way to perform fluid animations.
144 For developpers, this version also includes a rewritten dynamically
145 configurable debug interface to the interpreter able
146 to generate complete logs on any session. See Changelog.
148 News in 0.1.3:
149 * Minor bug fix release - update to this version
150 if you could not get package to compile with 0.1.1 or 0.1.2
151 due to error on doc/adesklets.1. Also adds a FAQ to
152 the documentation. See Changelog.
154 News in 0.1.2:
155 * Documentation update release. See Changelog.
157 News in 0.1.1:
158 * Minor bug fix release. See Changelog.
160 News in 0.1.0:
161 * New minor version release. Added preliminary french documentation,
162 support for Windows Manager with fake roots (Xfce4 built-in), and
163 for restarting all desklets.
165 News in 0.0.2:
166 * Minor bug fix release. See Changelog.
168 News in 0.0.1:
169 * Initial release of adesklets. More news coming somewhere
170 in mid-January: going out of the country for the holidays!
171 * Support for interactive use and Python only
172 * Everything major feature is in place: see online help.