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1 News in 0.6.1:
2 * This is a bug fix release. adesklets now compiles without warnings on
3 all gcc 4.x releases, while retaining compatibility with all previous
4 versions of the GNU C compiler. A new test/timing.py framework was
5 also added to help the diagnostic of potential timing issues.
7 News in 0.6.0:
8 * This is a new minor version release. adesklets now includes support
9 for writing desklets in Perl: many thanks to Lucas Brutschy
10 <lbrutschy@users.sourceforge.net> for his work!
12 News in 0.5.1:
13 * This is a bug fix release. adesklets now compiles and run on
14 OpenBSD 3.8, automated FIFO cleanup in case of broken session was added
15 to the frontend, as well as support of the newest version of e16.
16 The adesklets installer script automated UI fallback was also fixed.
18 News in 0.5.0:
19 * This is new minor version and bug correction release. It extends
20 the documentation and FAQ on many topics, includes many fixes
21 to the autotools scripts (special thanks to Steve Langasek
22 <vorlon@debian.org>), regularises a few exceptions in the
23 interpreter, adds support to WM-specific contextual menu, adds a few
24 use cases scripts under test/, and adds a brand new adesklets installer
25 (adesklets_installer) for automated download and unpacking of desklets.
27 News in 0.4.12:
28 * This is a bug fix release. It corrects an error with the distributed
29 documentation makefile that prevented info files and manual pages from
30 installing right on arbitrary, empty directory trees (thanks to Bart
31 Kreska for the patch). It also add support for nautilus and KDE >=3.4.1,
32 as well as preliminary support for ROX-Filer and xffm-deskview. It
33 should rectify a long-standing issue with some desklets failing to
34 complete their initial display. Finally, the documentation FAQ was
35 slightly expanded.
37 News in 0.4.11:
38 * This is a bug fix release. Documentation wize, it brings the
39 french documentation up to speed with the english version
40 (thanks to Martin Kirchgessner martin.kirch@gmail.com for
41 all his work), and take the whole documentation source and
42 html version out of the main package (thanks to this, adesklets
43 is now about 300 KB lighter). Code wize, this version includes
44 many small fixes for various platforms \u2013 FreeBSD 7 should
45 hopefully be supported unpatched, manuals have been added for
46 desklets submission script to please Debian. Yet, the biggest
47 change is probably the inclusion of an optional shell driver
48 to the interpreter, that ease up the administration of adesklets
49 and the quick adaptation of the code to new windows managers.
51 News in 0.4.10:
52 * This is a bug fix release. An unwanted partial new feature made is way
53 into previous release: it caused the contextual menu to stop working
54 the advertised way (the control key needed to be pressed for the menu to
55 get fired). This release just revert back the change, and add a
56 configuration-time option, --enable-control-on-context-menu, for
57 those who really wants this behavior.
59 News in 0.4.9:
60 * This is a bug fix release. It changes the global macro definitions
61 for adesklets to compile without problems on FreeBSD 6.x, corrects
62 an error with debugging flag stripping from the C compiler,
63 and adds a new demo program about threading.
65 News in 0.4.8:
66 * This is a bug fix release. It changes the global macro definitions
67 for adesklets to compile without problems on FreeBSD 5.x, and it also
68 adds fake root window detection for KDE, thanks to yogi77, from the
69 forum.
71 News in 0.4.7:
72 * This is a bug fix release. It removes calls to some C99 math routines
73 not available in earlier BSD's, make the code more portable. It also
74 adds two new commands to the API for handling the images caching
75 mechanism better.
77 News in 0.4.6:
78 * This is a bug fix and documentation update release. It corrects
79 many small bugs inside the desklets submission process scripts,
80 makes portability changes to the autoconf structure, adds a new demo
81 scripts in test (widget.py), corrects the xwindow_move_window routine
82 for a small placement bugs on the screen (thanks to man1ed from
83 the forum from providing the patch), and finally add a new
84 appendix containing a handy online version of Imlib2 documentation.
86 News in 0.4.5:
87 * This is a bug fix and documentation update release. It improves
88 the desklets submission process by releasing the full check
89 in script used by the maintainer. It also solves a bug
90 with window refresh when using user-defined background image
91 and menus: thanks to ZeroDivide for reporting this.
92 Various updates and correction have also been made to the documentation.
94 News in 0.4.4:
95 * This is a documentation update release, principally aimed
96 at desklets authors. It basically includes a new appendix
97 on how to submit a desklet (including scripted support),
98 and a new subsection on system-wide fonts detection as well.
99 FAQ was also expanded to cover this topic.
101 News in 0.4.3:
102 * This is a documentation update release. Most of the work here
103 was made by Mike Pirnat exilejedi@users.sourceforge.net,
104 who was kind enough to rectify the base author's deficient english
105 by proofreading this manual from cover to cover. Thanks Mike!
106 The FAQ was also slightly expanded, and a new appendix for desklets
107 writer created.
109 News in 0.4.2:
110 * This is a new bug fix release. It corrects a bug within
111 the python package that made if not compile on all of
112 Python < 2.4.0. Thanks to nucular, from the adesklets forum,
113 for reporting this. It also corrects another minor mmap
114 related issue in the same package.
116 News in 0.4.1:
117 * This is anew bug fix release. It secures the use of optional
118 adesklets.ConfigFile class by completely changing the way
119 config files are imported, removing a potential security exploit.
120 Thanks to Mike Pirnat <exilejedi@users.sourceforge.net> for
121 sharing his concerns on this issue.
123 News in 0.4.0:
124 * This is a new minor version release. The interpreter now support
125 internationalization - It can now dynamically work with different
126 charsets on platforms supporting iconv (as standardized in UNIX98), and
127 display them in the right fashion. Python package was also extended
128 to include an (optional) generic configuration class, hopefully useful
129 to desklets authors.
131 News in 0.3.2:
132 * This is a documentation update release. Documentation was added for
133 python programmers, FAQ was slightly expanded.
135 News in 0.3.1:
136 * This is new bug fix release. It just adds support for interruption
137 of time gates by events. This is a feature absolutely required to make
138 some timed effects possible.
140 News in 0.3.0:
141 * This is a new minor version release. Portability has been a big concern
142 for us since the beginning; with this version, the package compile
143 and run flawlessly on FreeBSD and NetBSD. Events handling has also been
144 internally streamlined, and the python binding was extended to support
145 dynamic modification of caught events (see test/test_events.py).
147 * The interpreter API now expose everything the author wanted,
148 and will probably not be expanded much further; everything is pretty
149 much in place to write any desklet, including animations.
151 News in 0.2.1:
152 * This is a minor bug fix release - it removes a compatibility bug
153 within the GNU history library usage. Thanks to Mike Pirnat
154 for reporting this.
156 News in 0.2.0:
157 * New minor version release. Added support for textual variables
158 (strings substitution, in fact), and execution of timed preregistered
159 sequences of commands to the interpreter (indirect mode of execution);
160 this gives desklets a way to perform fluid animations.
161 For developpers, this version also includes a rewritten dynamically
162 configurable debug interface to the interpreter able
163 to generate complete logs on any session. See Changelog.
165 News in 0.1.3:
166 * Minor bug fix release - update to this version
167 if you could not get package to compile with 0.1.1 or 0.1.2
168 due to error on doc/adesklets.1. Also adds a FAQ to
169 the documentation. See Changelog.
171 News in 0.1.2:
172 * Documentation update release. See Changelog.
174 News in 0.1.1:
175 * Minor bug fix release. See Changelog.
177 News in 0.1.0:
178 * New minor version release. Added preliminary french documentation,
179 support for Windows Manager with fake roots (Xfce4 built-in), and
180 for restarting all desklets.
182 News in 0.0.2:
183 * Minor bug fix release. See Changelog.
185 News in 0.0.1:
186 * Initial release of adesklets. More news coming somewhere
187 in mid-January: going out of the country for the holidays!
188 * Support for interactive use and Python only
189 * Everything major feature is in place: see online help.