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- Bug fixes (#153006, #315209, #341228, #354322, #356591)
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- Partially fixed #357443.
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- Check for pyorbit >= 2.0.1.
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- Fixed deprecation warnings.
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- Fixed some annoyances related to Unit.
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- Also accept other units in the canvas, although this is rarely needed.
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- Removed Win32 support, since it never worked.
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- Usual cleanups of leftovers...
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- New translations (fi, gl, lv)
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New in release 0.35.3:
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- Implemented workaround to make gauges work with GTK 2.8
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New in release 0.35.2:
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- Float mode. Press a configurable key to bring your desklets to front
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- Fixed the issue with broken "shelve" module on some systems
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New in release 0.35.1:
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- Improved error dialogs pointing to the broken desklet
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- New and fast geometry engine for layouting elements
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- Support for custom menus
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- Support for custom mouse pointers
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- Support desktop struts (areas which cannot be covered by maximized windows)
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- Opacity support for text labels
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- New configuration element <button>
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- Desklets can be scaled freely to fit every desktop
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- gDesklets gives visual feedback while loading desklets
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- No longers depends on gtkhtml2 as we removed the deprecated half-working
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<html> element which was never used anyway, and wasn't portable at all
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- No longer depends on GConf (yes, your old config of the desklets will get
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lost, sorry about that)
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- Lots of code cleanups leading to better performance
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- In general, more robust
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- Plugged leaks (avoid to handle GdkPixbufs in Python)
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New in release 0.34.3:
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- Added "opacity" property for the <image> tag
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- Fixed / worked around leaks
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- Use vfs module in more places
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- More robust regarding broken Controls
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- Removed gconf in some places
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New in release 0.34.2:
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- Preview images in file selectors of the configuration dialogs
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- Improved handling of controls
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New in release 0.34.1:
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- New controls shipped with the core (ArrayBuffer, EventPipe)
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- Screen resolution (DPI) can by adjusted independently of the (often wrong)
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X server DPI value now
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- Configuration dialogs are scriptable now
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- Window shapes can be dynamically generated via SVG code
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- Improved/Feature enhanced canvas and plotter
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- Secure launch() command for the scripting sandbox
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- Hilighting of errors in inline scripts
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- Launch remote and local desklets via the shell using a dialog
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- Provide a dialog in the shell to enter a remote tarball
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- Add a nice banner to the configuration dialogs
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- Let the user decide which editor to use for viewing the source code
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- Another big performance boost
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- Memory optimizations
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- Lots of bug fixes and architecture improvements
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- NOTE: The old way of computing interface IDs had a bug, so that interfaces get
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a different interface ID now. gDesklets can still handle the old buggy
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IDs, but IDs generated by this version won't work with older releases of
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gDesklets. It is thus highly recommended to upgrade to 0.34!
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New in release 0.33.1:
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- SVG scripting capabilities and lots of other improvements in <canvas>
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- Added menu option "View Source" for viewing the source of a display
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- Removed deprecated part of libdesklets API (was deprecated for half a year)
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- Added "color" property to <frame>
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- Got rid of dependency on SWIG
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- Installs in $PREFIX/lib instead of $PREFIX/share to be more standard conform
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- fixed GConf critical error in the shell
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- check if DISPLAY variable is set
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- implemented <control> tag
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- made socket communcation more robust
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- tell the user if a python package isn't (correctly) installed
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New in release 0.32pre:
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- made dialogs HIG compliant
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- improved some shell plugins
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- improved the Makefile.am's
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- The graphical shell can deinstall .display files now
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- Colors in the logfile viewer make it easier to spot errors and warnings
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- Performance improvements
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- Better support for the Xcomposite X extension
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- A graphical shell for installing and managing desklets (finally!)
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- The tray icon features a popup menu
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New in release 0.30pre:
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- Sandboxed inline scripting in .display files
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- <prefs> tag and friends for creating config dialogs in the XML.
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- The geometry engine supports centimeter, inch, and DTP-point units for
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resolution independent desklets
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- <canvas> understands SVG
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- The daemon writes a logfile now and is started automatically when needed
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- Desklets can be opened as embeddables instead of windows for embedding them
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in other windows, e.g. panel applets
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- Controls replace the less flexible sensor concept. Sensors are deprecated.
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- New preferences system using XML and inline scripting
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- Increased performance
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- Tiling in utils is written in C
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New in release 0.26.2:
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- Fixes the positioning bug for anchored windows.
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New in release 0.26.1:
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- The systray icon is off by default; use the --tray-icon option to enable it
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- Fixes a broken file which caused problems with passwords
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- A systray icon shows if the daemon is running
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- A redesigned and more accurate geometry engine with better performance
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- Improved threading control mechanism makes broken desklets working again
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- Ready for GNOME 2.6
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- Add freedesktop.org-compliant MIME information
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- Add startup nofitication for displays
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- Remove crappy user installation
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New in release 0.25.1:
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- Survives and cancels bad sensors instead of crashing Xlib
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- Reworked the <frame> tag; it is no longer considered experimental
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- Support for gnome-session
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- Support for multiple user profiles
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- Desklets snap to other desklets
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- New target container <expander>
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- Automatic wrapping of <label> text with the "wrap-at" property
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- Ought to build with libgtop 2.5
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- Fixed transparency on GTK 2.3
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New in release 0.24.1:
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- Some significant performance boosts
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- libdesklets is now based on libgtop and is thus more portable and efficient
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- Support for GNOME VFS
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- Thumbnailer for creating previews of .display files in nautilus
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- Mouse wheel support
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- Window shape support
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New in release 0.22.1:
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- Compatibility improvements for sawfish
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- Removed Python 2.3 recommendation
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- Drag 'n Drop support
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- Callbacks for notifying about configuration changes in sensors.
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- Public admin module that other applications may use to add/remove/restart/
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New in release 0.21.2:
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- Fixed bug #121737 (relative-to + anchor)
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- Fixed default position bug that were introduced in 0.21
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- Fixed bug in <frame>
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- Fixed visibility bug for targets with percentual position or size
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New in release 0.21.1:
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- Setting EWMH flags works with older versions of PyGTK2 now
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- Fixed some memory leaks
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- Experimental <html> tag
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- Experimental <frame> tag
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- <plotter> tag for plotting graphs
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- gDesklets no longer appear in the Alt+Tab list on metacity
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- gDesklets stay visible when you do "show desktop" in GNOME
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- External and FontSelector sensors are in the core distribution now
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- libdesklets providing common functionality for sensors
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- Percentual positioning and sizing for resolution independent layout
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- Cool MIME icon by Waldgeist for .display files
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- Experimental (!) tag <embed> for embedding Bonobo controls such as
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- Stack trace output to help sensor programmers debug their sensors
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- "Restart display" menu option
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- Method for storing passwords in a more secure way
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- Further build system improvements. We now depend on automake/aclocal 1.6
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- SKIP_TASKBAR and SKIP_PAGER work on recent versions of sawfish
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- Implemented window flag "above"
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- Removed most FutureWarnings
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- Better support for non-UTF-8 encodings
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- Immediate program abort with Ctrl+C
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- Less memory usage; the garbage collector runs regularly now
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New in release 0.12.1:
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- Fixed a critical bug in the configuration dialogs
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- Popup menus work on XFCE now
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- Array elements no longer have to be the same size
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- Made the sematics of the 'relative-to' attribute more intuitive
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- Improved compatibility with old versions of PyGTK
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- User installation, i.e. data files are installed in user-specific dirs. This
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is great for people with limited access to their machine
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- Dropped excessive usage of data hooks, it caused problems and was obsolete
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New in release 0.11.1:
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- Build fixes, should work fine on Gentoo now.
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- More HIG compliancy
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- Arabic translation (ar.po)
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- Fixed the broken part of the autotools based installer
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- Solid colored backgrounds are now captured properly on GNOME
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- Implemented a workaround for a severe bug in the background redrawing of
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nautilus (in the 2.2.x series) that caused gDesklets to crash
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