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Workrave NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. 13 Jan 2013
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Copyright (C) 2001-2013 Rob Caelers, Raymond Penners, Ray Satiro
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See the end for copying conditions.
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http://www.workrave.org
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** Split "show 'postpone' and 'skip'" checkbox into two checkboxes. (Egbert Teeselink)
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** Add the capability to delete all stored statistics (Ray Satiro)
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** Workrave now supports DBus on window.
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DBus can be used to control Workrave by an external program.
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** Workrave now offers a Gnome 3 applet. Applets for both Gnome 3
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classic and the Gnome shell are available.
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** Workrave now offers an application indicator (applet) in Unity.
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** On Windows, Workrave does not stay in the 'suspended' mode after
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resuming from hibernate/sleep.
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** On Unix, Workrave adds a new activity monitoring method that can be
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used instead of the XRECORD based monitoring. XRECORD monitoring
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appear be causing X crashes for some people
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(See http://issues.workrave.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1066)
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** Infrastructure update. Workrave now supports:
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- Gtk3/Gtkmm3 (only on Gnome 3; Gtk2/Gtkmm2 is still used on Gnome 2)
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- Configuration in GSettings (instead of GConf)
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- GIO based DBus (instead of freedesktop.org DBus)
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** Obsolete KDE3 support has been droppped.
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** Translation updates:
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- Mykola Rykov translated Workrave into Ukrainian.
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- Ivan Barkovic translated Workave into Croatian.
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- Moein Gh translated Workave into Persian.
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- Jyri-Petteri Paloposki translated Workrave into Finnish
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- Goran MariÄiÄ translated Workrave into Serbian.
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- Igor Zinovik updated the Russian translation.
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- Gabor Kelemen updated the Hungarian translation.
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- Alick Zhao updated the Chinese translation.
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- Andrey Bondrov updated the Russian translation.
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- PaweÅ Szerszon updated the Polish translation.
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** Plus many small fixes and improvements (Ray Satiro, Rob Caelers)
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** The automatic start of a restbreak when the screen is locked is now
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** Fixed crash when the 'mute all audio during breaks' option is enabled.
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** The skip and postpone button now have keyboard shortcuts (Alt-S
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and Alt-P in the English version).
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** Fixed issue where Workrave remains suspended after
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hibernate/standby on Window 7.
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** Fixed issue where the reading mode was reset after changing settings.
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** On Windows, Workrave shows a reminder balloon when Workrave starts up
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in suspended or quiet mode.
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** The (un)installer now automatically shuts down Workrave before
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** It is no longer possible to disable both the notification icon and
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** SeanĆ”n Ć CoistĆn translated Workrave into Irish.
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** ź¹ģ¬ģ© translated Workrave into Korean.
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** Workrave now stops all timers when the screen is locked. When the
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screen in unlocked, a natural restbreak is started.
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** Audio muting improvements:
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- Audio is now muted after the start break sound is played.
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- Audio is now unmuted when the user becomes active after the break
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has ended instead of immediately after the break ended.
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** By default, the RECORD extention is now mandatory on X windows systems.
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*** Fixed crash on Windows systems without audio installed.
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*** Fixed translucency of Deskband applet on Windows 7/Vista.
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*** Fixed Reading mode menu entry in Windows and Gnome applet.
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*** Networking now supports IPV6 addresses.
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*** Activity monitor should now filter out mouse jitter.
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*** Fixed monitoring of (Wacom) tablets.
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The activity insensitive breaks have been replaced by a 'reading
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mode'. This mode can easily be activated from the menu.
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** Workrave can now mute all audio during breaks.
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** Workrave now properly remembers the Window hide/show notification
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** The Workrave applet is functional again on Windows 7
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** Updated tranlations:
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- Brazilian Portuguese
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** Updated translations
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*** new Romanian translation (Alexandru Szasz)
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*** new Estonian translation (Marko VƤljaots)
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*** Removed extra "2" character in the Hungarian translation (MƔrton NƩmeth)
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*** Update of Hungarian translation
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*** Update of Swedish translation
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** Many bug fixes. Including:
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*** Fix saving the username in the networking preferences (Francois Marier)
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*** Fix KDE compilation errors (Stanislav Brabec)
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*** Fixed issue where autostart settings on Windows was not stored
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*** Fixed crashes when trying to add a host in networking preferences
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*** User activity is now recognized on Xorg 1.6.0
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*** Fixed color in dark UI themes on Gnome.
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*** Workrave no longer shows two icons on GNOME notification panel
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*** Fixed tray icon tranparency
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*** Fixed issue on Vista where the break window is not on top of other
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*** Improved volume control on Windows
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** Many small bugfixes
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** Fixed transparency of tray icon on Linux.
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** New alternate activity moniting for Windows (Ray Satiro)
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** Additional tooltips (Ray Satiro)
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** Improved 64 bit support (Ray Satiro)
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** Improved Vista support (Ray Satiro)
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** Exercises are now randomized
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** On Windows, the language can now be selected in the preferences
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** The option 'Start Workrave when windows starts' has been added to
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** Extended DBUS support on Unix
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** Networking supports can now be enabled without accepting incoming
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connections from other Workraves (Francois Marier)
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*** A sound has been added that indicates a next step in the exercise.
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*** The volume can now be configured
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*** All sounds can now be configured
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*** A new sound theme has been added (Ruairi Fullam)
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** Lots of changes by Ray Satiro.
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** Task manager is never blocked by Workrave (Ray Satiro)
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** Workaround for focus loss on Vista (Ray Satiro)
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** Vanja Cvelbar translated Workrave into Slovenian.
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** Many bug fixes, the most visible ones:
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*** Fixed breaks that have 'suspend timer when inactive' disabled (Ray Satiro)
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*** Improved Windows responsiveness under high load.
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(by reverting a 1.8.4 change)
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*** Gnome applet no longer 'hangs'.
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*** Gnome applet no longer crashes Workrave.
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*** Fixed crashes during startup on Windows.
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*** Fixed 'end-of-microbreak' sound.
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*** Fixed bug in multi-head support where Workrave showed
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multiple windows on a single screen.
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*** Fixed locking on Gnome with xscreensaver installed (Philipp Kern)
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** Eraldo Girardi translated Workrave into Italian.
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** Better support for vertical applets on Unix.
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** Tao WEI translated Workrave into simplified Chinese.
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** Peter Tuharsky translated Workrave into Slovak.
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** Prokopis Prokopidis translated Workrave into Greek.
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** The status window used to appear empty, only to be resized and
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filled with the timers shortly thereafter. Now it appears right
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away in the proper size.
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** The operation mode (normal/quiet/suspended) now persists across
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** Enver Altin translated Workrave into Turkish.
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** Masanobu Yokota translated Workrave into Japanese.
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** Ivan Dimov translated Workrave into Bulgarian.
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** ORY Mate translated Workrave into Hungarian.
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** Fixed KDE sound events (Phuah Yee Keat)
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** Fixed Gnome sound events
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** Fixed negative mouse usage when date is changed.
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** Fixed text color on Gnome themes with dark backgrounds (i.e. high
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** Gnome applets now support transparency.
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** The 'datadir' configuration option in workrave.ini can now be a
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This will store all Workrave data in the 'Data' directory below the
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Workrave root directory.
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(Note the double backslash)
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** Daily limit now properly resets when hibernated.
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** Daniel Nylander translated Workrave into Swedish.
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** Jordi Mallach translated Workrave into Catalan.
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** Support for storing configuration in a .ini file
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This feature can be enabled by creating an empty 'workrave.ini'
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file in '~/.workrave' (on Unix) or in 'c:\Program files\Workrave\etc'
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(on Window, assuming Workrave is installed in this directory)
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** Support for configuring the data storage directory.
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Add the following two lines to your workrave.ini
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datadir=C:\\Workrave\\Data
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This feature can be used to run Workrave from an USB memory stick.
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Note: On Windows, you have to use double backslashes like in the
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** Support for Gnome screen saver added (Matt Zimmerman).
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** Workrave no longer consumes 100% CPU is if a break is started while
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the screen is locked.
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** The applet popup menu is now accessible when all timers hidden.
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** Fix czech translation (Jiri Palecek).
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** Fixed a bug that could cause breaks to stop running when 'suspend
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timer while inactive' was disabled.
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** Fixed a crash when a third party gtk runtime is used.
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** Fixed bug that caused status windows to be disabled when the
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microbreak timer was hidden.
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** Fixed translations.
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** Better hibernate/standby support on Unix.
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** System tray menu on Windows now disappears when focus is lost.
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** Fixed a crash when blocking mode is set to 'none'
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** Jon Otegi translated Workrave into Basque.
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** Artūras Šlajus translated Workrave into Lithuanian.
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** Morten Lunde translated Workrave into Norwegian.
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** Juraj Kubelka translated Workrave into Czech.
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** Haggai Eran translated Workrave into Hebrew.
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** Workrave now gives additional feedback when becoming active
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during a break by flashing the break window border.
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** Workrave now uses the system tray icon to visualize the current
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mode (normal, suspended or quiet).
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** Added "Restbreak now" button to microbreak window.
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** KDE improvements. Workrave now has a native KDE applet and
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supports KDE sound events.
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** Decent tooltips for Workrave system tray icon.
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** Miscellaneous distribution improvements.
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** Added a Brazilian Portuguese translation, thanks to Claudio
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** Workrave now respects the "gtk-button-images" property.
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** Upgraded GTK runtime to version 2.4, fixing some minor UI quirks.
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** Fixed some high-profile bugs, especially activity monitoring
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problems when running X.
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** A bug was introduced in version 1.6.0 which could cause the status
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window to disappear. Version 1.6.1 is only a minor bug fix release
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that addresses this problem.
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** Workrave has been translated into Chinese thanks to Rex Tsai, into
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Russian thanks to Sergey Kirkinsky, and into French thanks to Thomas Basset
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** The explanation of an exercise is now scrollable, if it does not
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** The Windows version now includes a taskbar applet version of the
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status window. After installation of Workrave, right click your
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taskbar and select "Workrave" from the list of toolbars.
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** Timers can be configured to ignore activity.
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** Bloat removal: removed the "Resets at" option from the daily limit
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** Exercises are no longer read at program startup, and are released
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from memory when not needed anymore.
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** Terminology: we now use the term "micro-break" instead of "micro-pause".
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** When block mode "Block all" is used, we display the break window on
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top of your current desktop background (wallpaper), instead of on a
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semi-transparent screen snapshot.
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** Fixed screen locking on X11: previously only xlock was detected and
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used without passing a display parameter. Now, the proper screen
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lock command is invoked on the right display. For example, if KDE is
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detected its kdesktop_lock is executed.
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** High-profile bug fixes (Windows): activity monitoring when working
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in Exceed has been restored, and ZoneLab interaction problems
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(hangups) have been corrected.
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** Replaced the "Block input" setting (which was available per break)
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by a global "Block mode" setting, located in the GUI preferences. The
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available block modes are "None" (NEW: no input is blocked and break
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windows have a title bar and can be dragged), "Block input" (blocks
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input, break windows are fixed), "Block all" (NEW: blocks input and
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** The Windows installer now offers the option to install Workrave
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using the standalone Dropline GTK+ runtime. For more information, see
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http://www.dropline.net/gtk/.
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** Removed the "Force break after maximum preludes" option. It is now
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** Some strings in the German translation were too long, fixed.
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** Added multihead support for Windows.
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** Improved suspend (to ram) support. Workrave now assumes that you
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are idle while suspended instead of assuming that no time passes.
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** Improved multihead support. The status window is now automatically
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relocated when the monitor on which it is displayed is removed. It
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moved back to its original location when the monitor returns.
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** Exercises navigation can now be used without causing Workrave to
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remove the break window and show the warning windows again.
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** If supported by your system, the daily limit window includes a
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** There now is a "Lock" button on the rest break, so that you can
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safely lock your display while you are taking breaks. If the daily
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limit window does not include the "Shut down" button, it includes the
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"Lock" button instead.
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** Workrave has been translated to Polish, Danish and Spanish. Many
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thanks to Mikolaj Machowski, Christian Vejlbo, and Pablo Rodriguez!
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** Multihead support for X11. Workrave now shows break windows on
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** Workrave can now cope with changes in system time and OS features
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** Previously, the end time that showed up in the stats dialog equaled
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the time at which the clock reset (typically equal to the start of the
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next working day). This lead to weird from/to times, as in: "From
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8:46 to 9:10". Fixed.
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** Added an icon to the skip/postpone buttons on break windows.
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** Many laptop pointer devices "drift" over time. This used to cause
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Workrave to detect activity when there was in fact none. Fixed,
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thanks to Chung-chieh Shan.
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** On Windows, Workrave now notices when Explorer crashes and will try
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to reinsert the tray icon in the new Explorer taskbar that is created
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when Explorer restarts.
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** Rewrote the user input blocking mechanism on Windows. You should no
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longer experience visual quirks (like flashing windows or unexpectedly
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focusing random windows) during breaks.
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** On Linux, Workrave now notices when the gnome-panel crashes and
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will reinsert the applet in the new panel.
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** The content of the status window can now be configured.
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** Breaks can now be disabled.
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** If you stopped working during a prelude just before it was about to
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disappear, the prelude would still go away because Workrave assumed
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you wanted to continue working. This behaviour has been changed now:
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if there is no activity when the count-down has reached zero, Workrave
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waits a couple of seconds to see if you are really idle. If that is
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the case, a break window appears. If not, you can continue working.
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** Redesigned the preferences panel. It used to have nested tabs,
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these have been replaced with an icon shortcut bar.
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** The break windows have been given a title.
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** The Window version now included GTK-Wimp. This makes the visual
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appearance of Workrave blend much better into the Windows desktop
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environment (http://gtk-wimp.sourceforge.net).
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** Beter support for Gnome session management. Workrave is now
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properly restarted by the gnome session manager.
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** The applet can now be configured to show only the Workrave sheep.
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Clicking on the sheep will toggle the visibility of the main window.
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** Some errors in the build process have been fixed. Only a new source
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tarball is released, as this does not effect binary releases.
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** Johannes Rohr provided a german translation, thanks!
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** Added applet support. Workrave now supports both a native Gnome
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applet, as well as a system tray applet that *should* also work on
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** Added statistics. Workrave shows break statistics and daily usage.
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More statistics will be added later.
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** A leaflet promoting Workrave is now available. Please spread it as
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far as possible. For example, distribute several copies at the
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office. (http://workrave.sourceforge.net/leaflet/)
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** Last but absolutely not least: increased sheep size in the about
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** Removed the monitoring preferences. Good defaults is all you want
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here, and it was far too difficult to try and explain these settings
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** Added the daily limit break window.
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** Added internationalisation support. Currently, only a Dutch translation is
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provided. We are still looking for volunteers to translate Workrave
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into other languages.
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** The "Collective" has been renamed to "Network", which is far more
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meaningful to non-geek users.
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** A network log window has been added. This window shows informational
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messages about the communication between different Workrave instances.
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** Added experimental(!) distribution support, dubbed "The
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Collective". What this means is that you can now create a network of
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Workrave instances running on several computers. All instances that
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are part of "the collective" share the same timer information, meaning
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that if one computer informs you to take a break, it is futile to flee
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to another computer as it will also tell you to take a break.
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** Added sound support. You can configure the samples that are played
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through the standard sound control panel provided by Gnome and
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Windows. For office PCs that do not have a sound card, you can choose
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to play sounds through the internal PC speaker.
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** The window prompting you to brake now moves earlier to the top of
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the screen so that it does not interfere too much. Furthermore, the
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window has a new and improved "evasive manouvers" algorithm.
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** Activity during a persisted break is no longer ignored. Instead,
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the timer is stopped whenefer the user is active.
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** Microsoft Windows specific changes
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*** Added taskbar tray support. When the main window is closed, the
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program remains active in the tray. In the user interface preferences,
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you can select to hide the program when started.
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*** The main window is now opened at the position where it was during
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the last program exit.
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** First public release.
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Copyright (C) 2001-2010 Rob Caelers & Raymond Penners
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