MakagigaSee also: Previous releases 2018-03-15 5.99 Beta (6.x) Codename: Lorem Ipsum Read before upgrade: * REMOVED: Windows XP/Vista support; the application will probably fail to launch on such OS * REMOVED: 32-bit support: - "makagiga-linux-i586" binary package is no longer provided (only 64-bit "makagiga-linux-x64") - Installer for Windows will abort the installation on 32-bit system - Installer for Windows will install in "C:\Program Files\Makagiga" by default (you may want to uninstall the older version from "C:\Program Files (x86)\Makagiga" folder) - Makagiga .exe launchers are now 64-bit * REMOVED: Mac OS X and Solaris support (it may still work OK but the overall quality may be lower than in versions for Linux/Windows) * CHANGED: Plugins designed for Makagiga older than 5.99 Beta are disabled (marked as incompatible). The plugins will be updated soon (click menu -> Tools -> Plugins to check for updates). * CHANGED: Many internal APIs were rewritten or removed which may break your JavaScript toolbar actions. See PORTING.txt for a brief list of API changes. * CHANGED: Requires Java 9 or newer (included in binary packages) Known Issues: * BUG: After RSS Feeds refresh some old/read articles may re-appear as "New" * BUG: Some malformed RSS Feeds may fail to display * REMOVED: Some standard icons were removed. If you used such icon (e.g. in Tree) it will be displayed as grey rectangle. Workaround: Choose a different icon * BUG: The new application "Restart" functions may not work on Windows * CHANGED: Custom Nimbus color will reset to it's default value Workaround: Set a custom color again and it will be saved correctly * BUG: Some minor user interface things that are currently missing in this Beta version will be restored in the future versions. * Wiki documentation is outdated * Minor things will be corrected in final version 6.0 * Bigger things will be corrected in the next Beta version (6.1 Beta) Other features should work as before. If not, it may be a "regression" or other bug. Please report any issues here Modern Metal Look and Feel: * Updated progress bar, table, and tabs User Interface * Updated buttons, check box, and radio buttons UI * Updated menu and tool bar UI * + Various minor tweaksTasks: * NEW: Table: Added "Adjust Column Width" function (right-click on table header) * NEW: Added "Indent" (Tab) and "Unindent" (Shift+Tab) actions. It allows you to create a basic subtasks. * NEW: Table: Added Properties action to the Edit menu * NEW: Added basic Anniversary (e.g. Birthday date) support (see task properties) * CHANGED: New colors in "Complete" column (Modern Metal LAF only) * Show Task hashtags in the Tags menu * Table: Show hashtags in "Filter" menu * Table: Easy filtering by Priority:
* Improved tool tips * FIXED: Replace invalid control characters before saving XML files * Improved Tasks menu in system tray * Improved duration display format and sorting * Better plain text format * CHANGED: Gray-out finished tasks; bold high priority tasks * CHANGED: "Categories" column renamed to "Tags" * Faster tasks loading on application startup * Improve "Complete" and "Priority" fields in task properties window * CHANGED: System Tray: Show the number of tasks by default (can be changed in "Tasks" settings) * CHANGED: New default Date and Priority colors (can be customized in "Tasks" settings) * Show settings button in tab tool bar * Improved export to HTML: - Added "Save Font Size" and "Show Grid" options - Show Task hashtags * Improved month calendar view Widgets: * NEW: Snap widgets to grid * NEW: Added "Fit to Window" wallpaper option * CHANGED: Title bar in Note widget now matches background color * CHANGED: Internet Search widget color matches selected engine "brand" color:
* Added "Mint" color theme * Todo Widget: A more compact UI by default * REMOVED: Drop shadow border and rounded corners * CHANGED: Auto hide workspace switcher if there is only one button with default "1" name * Do not require application restart after border size change * Windows: Fixed title font * Show Settings button in the tool bar * FIXED: Save Todo file only if modified * Updated titlebar UI * Clock widgets: Hide deprecated "SystemV" time zones * Updated widget colors Color Picker Dialog: * NEW: Use arrow keys to move mouse cursor when picking a color from screen * Fix "rgb(r,g,b)" format parsing in HTML tab * NEW: Add Copy and Paste buttons * Improved color preview Color Picker Menu: * NEW: Added "Paste" action to "Create Color" submenu * REMOVED: Other color palettes (it's still in the color chooser dialog) Color Pickers: * NEW: Drag and drop support * NEW: Added light colors column to the default color palette ("Oxygen") * REMOVED: Redundant/old/rarely used color palettes * + Various UI tweaks and improvements Tabs: * NEW: Tabs drag and drop (contributed by Fábián Krisztián, feature request #26) * CHANGED: Move Zoom In/Out and Reset Zoom actions to "View|Zoom" submenu * Improved "Copy" context menu Notepad: * CHANGED: Show "Snippets" pane by default Image Editor/Viewer: * REMOVED: "Filters and Effects" action (it may be available as a new plugin in the future) * NEW: Basic TIFF image read/write support * NEW: Show editor actions in Tools menu * Improved tool icons and keyboard shortcuts * REMOVED: Preloading of the next image * Improve "Scale/Resize Image" dialog layout Text/HTML: * Fixed Ctrl+T/Ctrl+Shift+T keyboard shortcuts RSS Feed Viewer: * NEW: Added "Underline Link" option (disabled by default) * Performance optimizations * CHANGED: Show "Connect" question if working in Offline mode * FIXED: Handle "301" error in RSS enclosure downloader * NEW: Clickable/copyable RSS links in Properties|Information tab * Better "Add RSS Feed" dialog window * NEW: Add RSS Feed: Auto detect and paste youtube RSS URL * Add "EFF" sample RSS * FIXED: Handle image URLs without both schema and base (bug #28) * FIXED: Parsing of some non-wellformed XMLs Tree: * CHANGED: Search Bar: Disable text autocompletion due to confusing keyboard shortcuts * CHANGED: Disable file drag & drop from Makagiga into an external application (due to Makagiga bug moved files are handled incorrectly) * NEW: Now it is possible (again) to set tags directly in "New File" and "New Folder" dialogs * NEW: Added "Mark New Items" option * NEW: Added "Show File Extension" option * CHANGED: Enable "Meta Info" option by default * CHANGED: Underline hovered items (instead of blue text color) * CHANGED: Move advanced Tree settings to the Tools|Settings|Advanced * CHANGED: Randomize "String.id" property (in .properties file) when exporting a file (for privacy reasons) * REMOVED: File permissions settings (it was rarely used, too buggy, and not very well tested) * CHANGED: Show tags under item name instead of alongside * Clickable links in Properties|Information tab Tags: * NEW/CHANGED: "Categories" and "Tags" were unified into one consistent "Tags" UI. - Old/current categories will be automatically imported as tags. - Everything what was previously called "Category" it's a "Tag" now. * NEW/CHANGED: Redesigned Tags editor in Properties Bar/Properties Dialog - Tags field in Properties Bar (bottom of the tab) now requires explicit Enter key press to accept entered tags - Tag separator changed from Space to Comma (,)
* REMOVED: Hashtags ("Current Tab" section) from the Tags menu * REMOVED: "Import from Evolution" function Misc.: * + Various minor bugfixes, improvements and optimizations * + Various UI tweaks, usability and accessibility improvements * NEW: Hi-dpi support (fonts, UI, and icons):
* CHANGED: Show tool bar separator lines * REMOVED: Text fields/editors: Ctrl+H (same as Backspace) and Ctrl+U (KDE only) shortcuts * FIXED: Always use "text" (i-beam) cursor in text components * Linux/OpenJDK: Use nicer/less blurry font by default (can be customized in Settings window). The new font is set only on first Makagiga startup with fresh profile. * Upscale makagiga.png icon to 48x48 * Updated the Polish translation * README.html -> README.md * Linux: Workaround for all gray dialog windows * NEW: Drag and drop support in Link buttons * NEW: Linux: Added menu shortcut installer: install-menu-shortcut.sh * Date input fields: Improve cursor positioning on mouse click (do not select all text on focus gain) * Directory content preview in file chooser * Location Bar: now you can right click to display file/folder context menu * Improve File Overwrite confirmation window * Date/Time input: Show date/time format in tooltip * Table: Select an item under mouse on right click if no selection * Cleanup --version and --help options * Improve window titlebar icons * Update file chooser UI (bigger window, better tool bar buttons):
* REMOVED: Razor-qt support * Show warning if running as "root" user * XML: Do not read local/remote external entities during XML parse * CHANGED: Increase drag (and drop) threshold to 10px to avoid accidental drag and drop * Every text field/editor (except password field) has now a More|Print action in context menu * Improve diagnostics and error messages for --portable/profile/user-files command line options * Linux menu shortcut: Added "Run in Safe Mode" action * Delete Private Data: Show data size alongside checkbox text * Added "--force-security-manager" command-line option * CHANGED: Sidebar: Small button icons by default (right click to set large icons) * REMOVED: "Animations" option * REMOVED: Checking for Java updates (in Update plugin) * Look and Feel settings: Add "Custom Font..." button (shortcut) (this will be replaced by a new dedicated "Fonts" settings page in v6.1 Beta) * Show warning when opening an external Jar/VBScript/*.scr/PowerShell (*.ps1)/*.js file * REMOVED: Application version from HTTP User Agent (for privacy reasons) * NEW: Added "Restart" buttons - a convenient way to restart application after plugin update or settings change (feature request #28) System Tray: * FIXED: Always show main window on system tray icon click (feature request #37) * FIXED: Make sure the panel and popup menu does not overlap * CHANGED: Do not use system tray icon if running in "safe mode" About window: * Show additional diagnostic info in System tab: "AES Maximum Key Length", "Module", "Program CPU Time", screen HiDPI scale, Wayland Display, APPDATA, LOCALAPPDATA, JAVA_HOME and JDK_JAVA_OPTIONS environment variables * NEW: Show info if OS is not fully supported Help: * Cleanup "Keyboard/Mouse Shortcuts" list * Added Help|Topics|Command Line Options menu item * REMOVED: Help|Command Line Options entry * REMOVED: "Actions" section Link plugin: * REMOVED: Export to Mozilla Prism * NEW: Support local file paths (e.g C:\foo\bar or /home) Internet Search: * REMOVED: "Answers.com" Internet Search plugin * OpenSearch: Fixed favicon images * OpenSearch: Bugfixes Console: * Improved help * debug command: Show all threads, Priority, Daemon and Lock Owner columns Plugin SDK: * Updated i18n tools and related documentation * CHANGED: build.xml: "ant i18nnew" -> "ant i18n-new" * NEW: Add "ant test-deps" (report deps and use of deprecated/internal APIs) * NEW: Added icon-small.png template * CHANGED: README.txt -> README.md * REMOVED: Support for plugins written in JavaScript * CHANGED: Rename makagiga-commons-*.jar to makagiga-core-*.jar * REMOVED: Support for "Library" plugin type * REMOVED: "Boolean.default.enabled", "Boolean.systemClassPath" and "String.iconOverlay" plugin properties * Improve keyboard shortcuts and "Project" menu * Faster compilation and testing * REMOVED: WebStart(tm) support Source: * CHANGED: Major API overhaul/rewrite/cleanup - see PORTING.txt * REMOVED: "ant test-quick" (use "ant test" instead) * Improved "ant help" * REMOVED: Makefile wrapper (use ant instead) * CHANGED: build.xml: Remove "prog_file_version" property (the new file version format includes extra dash: e.g. makagiga-5.99beta -> makagiga-5.99-beta) * CHANGED: tools/pmd.sh -> ant pmd (also runs cpd) * NEW: Colorized unit test output (ant test) * REMOVED: Built-in support for Debian/RPM package build (removes builddeb/buildrpm/installdeb/installrpm/release ant targets) * Javadoc: Update CSS, include source code, generate HTML 5 * NEW: Added ./tools/jshell.sh (JShell helper script) * Updated Eclipse IDE and NetBeans IDE project files * NEW: Added IntelliJ IDEA project files * Update i18n tools and related documentation * CHANGED: build.xml: "ant i18nnew" -> "ant i18n-new" * Auto show warnings reported by POFileChecker (need gettext-lint package) when building language translations (ant i18n) * Move various license/copyright info into one ./LICENSE.txt