Release Notes / ChangeLog


See also: Previous releases

2011/12/05  4.1 Beta

[A short summary with screenshots]

* System tray icon: Show Tasks summary in context menu

Text/HTML Editor:

* EXPERIMENTAL: Insert Table action (Edit -> Insert -> Insert Table...)
* Insert Image action (Edit -> Insert -> Insert Image...)

File Cache:

* Smaller disk usage in "portable" mode
* Fixed: Correctly remove unused cache entries

Image Viewer:

* Show JPEG comments in the Info panel
* Search files by JPEG comment (Tree panel)

Misc.:

* About box: Draw large logo in right-bottom window corner
* Various animations in dialog windows
* Limit dialog window size on large screens

Linux:

* E17 Desktop Environment support
* GNOME 3: Fix \r and \n (new line) in window titles


Alpha 3


Widgets:

* "Desktop" is now called "Workspace"
* Do not disable Settings menu item if workspace is locked

Task List:

* NEW: Date choosers: "Next Day/Week/etc." buttons and menu items everywhere
* Improved "Modify selected" context menu

Misc.:

* NEW: GTK+ bookmarks (aka Places) and common Makagiga folders in file chooser
  (click Bookmarks button)
* Linux/Openbox: Enable text antialiasing
  via command line option in "makagiga" launcher
* Linux: Basic Unity support
* Fixed errors caused by failed RSS Archive migration
* Minor RSS Archive optimizations
* Plugins: Mirror servers are temporarily disabled
* Misc. UI improvements


Alpha 2


Tree:

* NEW: Cut, Copy and Paste actions in context menu
* NEW: Option to show last modified time (Tree Settings button -> Date)
* NEW: File -> Import -> Import Folder... action
* NEW: Black, blue, and brown folder icons (see folder properties)

Task List:

* EXPERIMENTAL: Custom task colors
  (see context menu -> Modify Selected -> Set Color...,
  or click the "circle" column)

Task Summary panel:

* NEW: Tasks settings (menu -> Tools -> Settings -> Tasks)
* NEW: Filtering by category and new filter bar
* Updated task alarms (popup notifications)

Text/HTML Editor:

* NEW: Open linked Makagiga documents in a new tab
* NEW: Edit/View HTML function (see menu bar -> Edit)
* NEW: Context menu: "Open" menu item to open links in external browser
* Fixed: Open relative file links
* Fixed Enter key (inserting new lines)
* Fixed default CSS
* Fixed: Hide comment tags in edit mode

Notepad:

* HTML Preview: Settings -> Download and Show Images option

Feed Reader:

* NEW: Improved keyboard navigation for RSS articles (see menu -> File)
* Icons in blue, less distracting color theme

User Interface:

* NEW: Keyboard support for popup notifications
  (see menu -> View -> Notifications)
* Fixed: Larger minimum font size in A03 LAF

Misc.:

* NEW: Update Plugin: Automatically check for updates.
  This function is disabled by default.
  See menu -> Tools -> Settings -> Update for more info.
* Improved various settings windows
* Misc.optimizations
* Fixed plugin installer and uninstaller
* Wikipedia Browser: Fixed external link handling and content parsing
* Removed verbose log messages

Linux:

* GNOME Shell: Fixed multiple lines in window titlebar
* Menu shortcut: Added "Java" category, fixed icon name warning
* Basic support for LXDE
* Improved error/tip text in launcher

Scripting:

* Added workaround for OpenJDK packages without JavaScript engine
* Improved error messages

SDK/Source:

* Fixed Web Start build script
* i18n.sh: MAKAGIGA_LINGUAS environment variable option
* SDK wizard: Validate plugin ID

Javadoc API documentation:

* Run javadoc in offline mode
* Use en_US locale
* Improved CSS for "a" and "code" tags

Security Manager (experimental, disabled in this version):

* Basic API for master/login password
* Improved Security Manager dialog
* Fixes, stabilizations, and other improvements


Alpha 1


Task List:

* NEW: Option to hide completed tasks
  (see Filter Panel -> "+" button -> Show Completed Tasks)
* NEW: Option to show tool tips (menu -> View -> Tool Tips)
* Removed distracting indicator icons from the Summary column

Feed Viewer:

* Fixed RSS article scrolling using Up/Down keys

Widgets:

* Fixed: Do not steal global input focus during application startup

User Interface:

* Updated Russian translation
* Search boxes: Now you can press Up/Down key to select previous/next item
  in the related list view
* Fixed: Highlighting of selected UI component associated with menu item
  (see View -> Tool Bars)
* Dialog window: Drag tool bar to move window

Image Editor:

* EXPERIMENTAL: Added "Edit -> Create: Blueprint" action
  (an image with blue background, grid, and predefined brush properties)
* Improved printing quality

Tree:

* NEW: Improved item selection using mouse
* Auto select imported files

Misc.:

* NEW: Statistics window: Show free disk space.
  It's useful if you are using Makagiga on a USB stick with limited capacity.
* NEW: Calendar Tab (menu -> Tools -> Calendar): Added printing support
* Improved "New Folder" dialog

Console:

* NEW: Added Ctrl+S and Ctrl+I keyboard shortcuts (command history)
* NEW: Added "Net.connectTimeout" and "Net.readTimeout" variables.
  Set higher value (in milliseconds) if you have connection errors.

API:

* API changes

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