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NEWS for kupfer
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kupfer v200
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Released Wednesday,  7 April 2010

* Add Keyboard Shortcut configuration (Karol Będkowski)
* Make it easier to copy and move files (William Friesen), while showing
  user-friendly errors when action is not possible (Ulrik) (:lp:`516530`)
* Collect results in a *Command Results* subcatalog, including results from
  asynchronous commands (Pro tip: Bind a trigger to *Command Results* →
  *Search Contents*, for quick access to copied files, downloaded files etc)
* *Last Result* proxy object implemented
* Add *Cliboards* -> *Clear* action (Karol)
* Add *Rescan* action for some sources (Karol)
* Add an icon in the plugin list search field to enable clearing it (Karol)
* Fix spelling (Francesco Marella)
* Fix bug `544289`:lp:
* Require python module ``keyring`` (since pandoras-box-1.99, but was not
  mentioned)
* Recommend python-keybinder version 0.0.9 or later

* Localization updates:

  + cs Marek Černocký
  + de Mario Blättermann
  + es Jorge González
  + pl Karol Będkowski
  + sl Andrej Žnidaršič
  + sv Ulrik
  + zh_CN Aron Xu

kupfer version pandoras-box-1.99
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Released Tuesday, 16 March 2010

* Plugins can be loaded at runtime, although not unloaded can they not
* Plugins can bundle icons, and plugins can be packaged in .zip files
* New plugins *Google Search*, *Textfiles* and *Thunar*
* New plugin *Deep Archives* to browse inside .zip and .tar files
* New plugins *Twitter*, *Gmail* and *Google Picasa* by Karol Będkowski
* New plugin *Evolution* by Francesco Marella
* New action *Get Note Search Results...* in *Notes* by William Friesen
  (LP#511954)
* New plugin capabilities (user credentials, background loader) by Karol
* Added *Next Window* proxy object to *Window List* plugin
* Allow saving Kupfer commands to .kfcom files, and executing them with
  the ``kupfer-exec`` helper script.
* Display error notifications to the user when some actions can not be
  carried out.
* Allow collecting selections with the *Clipboard* plugin (Karol)
* Include Gnome/Yelp documentation written using Mallard (Mario Blättermann)

* Make *Zim* plugin compatible with newer Zim (Karol, Ulrik)
* Detect multiple volume rar files (William Friesen) (LP#516021)
* Detect XFCE logout better (Karol) (LP#517819)
* Fix reading VirtualBox config files (Alexey Porotnikov) (LP#520987)
* Fixed module name collision in user plugins (LP#518958), favoriting "loose"
  applications (LP#518908), bookmarked folders description (LP#509385),
  Locate plugin on OpenSUSE (LP#517819), Encoding problem for application
  aliases (LP#537730)
* New French translation by Christophe Benz
* New Norwegian (Bokmål) translation by Kjartan Maraas

* Kupfer now requires Python 2.6

* Localization updates:

  + cs Marek Černocký
  + de Mario Blättermann
  + es Jorge González
  + fr Christophe Benz
  + it Francesco Marella
  + nb Kjartan Maraas
  + pl Karol Będkowski
  + pt Carlos Pais
  + sl Andrej Žnidaršič
  + sv Ulrik


kupfer version pandoras-box-1.1
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Released Monday,  8 February 2010

* Fix bug in contact grouping code that could cause unusable Kupfer with Pidgin
  plugin. Reported by Vadim Peretokin (LP#517548)
* Chromium plugin will index Google Chrome bookmarks as fallback, by William
  Friesen (LP#513602)
* Kupfer's nautilus plugin was changed to be easier to reuse for others
* Some minor changes

* Localization updates:

  + pt (Carlos Pais)


kupfer version pandoras-box-1
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"Pandora's box"

Released Monday, 1 February 2010

* Implement the famous "comma trick": Press , (comma) in the first or
  third pane to make a stack of objects to perform actions on. This allows
  actions on many objects and even many-to-many actions.
* New plugin: *Triggers*: Add global keybindings to any command you can
  perform in Kupfer.
* New plugin *Skype* by Karol Będkowski
* New plugin *Thunderbird* (or Icedove) (Karol)
* Implement merging of contacts and hosts: All contacts of the same name are
  merged into one object. (Karol, Ulrik)
* New plugin *Higher-order Actions* to work with saved commands as objects
* The *Favorites* plugin was reimplemented: you may favorite (almost) any
  object. Favorites get a star and a rank boost.
* *Window List* plugin was improved, most notably a *Frontmost Window* proxy
  object was added
* New proxy object *Last Command*
* The *Firefox* plugin now includes most-visited sites from browser history
  (William Friesen, Karol, Ulrik)
* The list of plugins has a field to allow filtering the list (Karol)
* New Czech localization by Marek Černocký
* Many smaller changes.

* Localization updates:

  + cs (Marek Černocký, Petr Kovar)
  + de (Mario Blättermann)
  + nl (Martin Koelewijn)
  + pl (Karol)
  + sv
  + sl (Andrej Žnidaršič)

kupfer version c19.1
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Released 31 December 2009

* New plugin: *Shorten Links* by Karol Będkowski
* Implemented *Ctrl+C* (and *Ctrl+X*) to copy (cut) selected object
* Fix bug LP #498542: restore window position code to c18
* Partial fix of bug LP #494237, window is sometimes blank
* Fix bug LP #500395, column order in *Top* plugin (Karol)
* Fix bug LP #500619, handle network errors in *Google Translate* plugin
  (Karol)

* Localization updates:

  + pl (Karol)
  + sv

kupfer version c19
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Released 18 December 2009

* New plugins:

  + *Gnome Terminal Profiles* by Chmouel Boudjnah
  + *OpenOffice* recent documents in OpenOffice by Karol Będkowski
  + *Top* show and send signals to running tasks (Karol)
  + *Truecrypt* show volumes in truecrypt history and allow mounting them
    (Karol)
  + *Vinagre* Remote Desktop Viewer (Karol)
  + *XFCE Session Management* (Karol)
  + *Audacious* by Horia V. Corcalciuc

* New Slovenian translation by Andrej Žnidaršič
* Some plugins will now explicitly require a D-Bus connection and fail to
  load if no connection was found.
* Add accelerators *Page Up*, *Page Down* and *Home* in the result list.
  (Karol)
* Use customized or localized desktop directory instead of hardcoding
  ``~/Desktop`` by default. It will not affect users who already customized
  which directories Kupfer indexes.
* It now is possible to favorite shell commandlines
* *Gajim* plugin now works with version 0.13 (Karol) (LP #489484)
* Basic support for Right-to-left (RTL) interface
* Fix bugs with "loose" Applications (not in system directories), reported
  by Chmouel.
* Add accelerator *Ctrl+Return* for **Compose Command**: You may compose a
  command object out of an (Object, Action) combination, to be used with the
  new action *Run After Delay...*.
* Added file action *Send by Email* to *Claws Mail* plugin (Karol)
* Added file action *Mount as TrueCrypt Volume* to *TrueCrypt* plugin (Karol)
* Many small bugfixes

Localization updates:

* de: Mario Blättermann
* es: Jorge González
* it: Francesco Marella
* pl: Karol Będkowski
* sl: new (Andrej)
* sv: Ulrik Sverdrup

kupfer version c18.1
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Released 20 November 2009

* Fix bug to toss out malfunctioning plugins properly (Reported by Jan)
* Fix bug in showing the shutdown dialog, reported by user sillyfofilly (LP
  484664)
* Fix bug in plugin *Document Templates*, reported by Francesco Marella
  (part of LP 471462)

kupfer version c18
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Released 18 November 2009

"Mímisbrunnr"

* New plugins:

  + *Pidgin* by Chmouel Boudjnah
  + *Google Translate* by Karol Będkowski
  + *APT* (package manager APT) by Martin Koelewijn and Ulrik
  + *Document Templates*
  + *Kupfer Plugins*
  + *Show Text*

* *Gajim* plugin matches contacts by jid as well as name, suggested by
  Stanislav G-E (LP 462866)
* Action *Rescan* on sources is now debug only (should not be needed)
* Kupfer installs its Python package into ``$PREFIX/share`` by default,
  instead of installing as a system-wide Python module.
* Kupfer can take input on stdin and pass as text to an already running
  instance
* Fix bug in *Services* for Arch Linux, reported by lh (LP 463071)

* Changes for plugin authors:

  + May use ``uiutils.show_text_result`` to show text
  + ``kupfer.task.ThreadTask`` is now a reliable way to run actions
    asynchronously (in a thread)
  + You can use item *Restart Kupfer* to restart (in debug mode)
  + Plugins may be implemented as Python packages, as well as modules

* Updated the dependencies in the README. pygobject 2.18 is required. Added
  gvfs as very recommended.
* Other bugfixes

Localization updates:

* de (Mario Blättermann)
* es (Jorge González)
* nl (Martin Koelewijn)
* pl (Karol Będkowski)
* sv
* zh_CH (lh)

kupfer version c17
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Released, 25 October 2009

"A fire lit by nine kinds of wood"

* 8 new plugins by Karol Będkowski:

  + *Claws Mail*, Contacts and actions
  + *Gajim*, Access to gajim contacts
  + *Opera Bookmarks*, for the web browser Opera
  + *PuTTY Sessions*, access to PuTTY sessions
  + *System Services*, start, stop or restart system services
  + *Terminal Server Client*, access to TSClient sessions
  + *VirtualBox*, control virtual machines, Sun or OSE version
  + *Zim*, access pages in the desktop wiki

* New plugin *Chromium Bookmarks* by Francesco Marella
* Plugins missing dependencies will be presented in the GUI with a clear
  error message.
* *Firefox Bookmarks* plugin: Workaround Firefox 3.5 writing invalid JSON
  (Karol, Ulrik)
* *Locate* plugin: Ignore case by default, add option to control this.
  (Karol)
* Kupfer is much more friendly and says "Type to search in *Catalog*" when
  it is ready to be used.

* Localization updates:

  + New Simplified Chinese localization (lh)
  + New Dutch localization (Martin Koelewijn)
  + New Portuguese localization (Carlos Pais)
  + Updated pl (Karol)
  + Updated es (Jesús Barbero Rodríguez)


kupfer version c16
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Released 5 October 2009

* Translation to German (Thibaud Roth)
* Polish translation updated (Maciej Kwiatkowski)
* Add search engine descriptions from ``firefox-addons`` (Francesco Marella)
* Speed up directory browsing by using much less system calls
* Improve documentation and put it together into a `Manual`.
* Generate man page from reStructuredText document `Quickstart`.
* Evaluate valid actions (per object) lazily to save work.
* Add accelerators *Ctrl+Q* (select quit) and *Alt+A* (activate)
* Parse even horribly wrong search engine descriptions (Bug reported by
  Martin Koelewijn)


kupfer version c15
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* Translation to Polish by Maciej Kwiatkowski
* Speed up the string ranker tremendously; 3x faster in common cases.
* All objects now have an alias in the basic latin alphabet (if possible) so
  that, for example, query `wylacz` matches item _Wyłącz_.
* Show notification icon by default
* Read XML with cElementTree (Faster.)
* Read Firefox 3's bookmarks (Python2.5 requires `cjson` module)
* New Plugin: Image Tools, with action _Scale..._ and JPEG rotation actions
  (_Scale_ requires ImageMagick (`convert`), JPEG actions `jpegtran` and
  `jhead`)
* Basic support for a Magic Keybinding: summon kupfer with current selection

kupfer version c14.1
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* Fix two bugs with new browisng mode (soft reset for text mode, backspace or
  left to erase a subcatalog search)

kupfer version c14
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* Rewrite and improve browsing mode:
  * Browsing the catalog or folders is much improved; it is easier to keep the
    overview and be oriented.
  * Returning to kupfer after having performed an action, the old object is
    still available, but without locking the catalog to its location.
    When spawning kupfer again, the previous context is available if you
    immediately browse; if you search, you search the whole catalog.
  * The search times out after 2 seconds if no key is typed. Now the highlight
    text will fade to show this.
* Add accelerators `Ctrl+G` and `Ctrl+T` to get current selection in nautilus
  and currently selected text (if available).

kupfer version c13.1
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* Fix two bugs with _Rename To..._ 

kupfer version c13
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* New Plugin: Calculator
* New Action: _Rename To..._ in File Actions Plugin
* Smaller changes (Stop learned mnemonics database from growing indefinitely,
  Catch SIGINT without python's handler, _Copy To..._ requires pygobject 2.18
  now)

kupfer version c12
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* Translation to Spanish by Leandro Leites
* Preferences. Display plugin settings and options beside the plugin list,
  and allow configuring included (and watched) directories.
* Support the new Gnome session protocol to save state on log out.
* Improve embarassingly bad shell command quoting for _Execute_ and Tracker tag
  actions.
* Specify user data locations with `X-UserData`
* Fix an AttributeError in Notes plugin reported by Francesco Marella
* Smaller fixes (Add/remove favorite could cease to work, Track intantiated
  sources better)

kupfer version c11
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The "this one goes to 11" release

* New plugin: Notes (Gnote and Tomboy support)
  * Access notes, Actions: _Create Note_ and _Append to Note..._
* New plugin: Selected File
  * Kupfer ships with a Nautilus python extension that once installed,
    you can access the currently selected file in Nautilus from Kupfer,
    as the _Selected File_ object

This release is localized in: Swedish (100%), Italian (90%)

kupfer version c10.1
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* Spanish Translation by Leandro Leites

kupfer version c10
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* Updated italian localization
* New plugins: Url Actions, Web Search (rewritten to use all Firefox' search
  engines)
* New actions: _Set Default Application_, _Create Archive In..._,
  _Restore_ (Restore trashed file)
* Add accelerators `Control+R` for reset, `Control+S` for select first
  (source) pane and `Control+.` for untoggle text mode.
* Only the bookmarks plugins can toggle "include in toplevel" now.
* Other smaller changes (Refuse invalid Application objects from the
  cache)

This release is localized in: Swedish (100%), Italian (93%)

kupfer version c9.1
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* User interface consistency and behaviour improvements. UI is simpler and
  better.
* Other improvements.

This release is localized in: Swedish (100%), Italian (60%)

kupfer version c9
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The "c9" release

* Search and browse perform better
* The interface is now modal. In command mode we can bind special keys to
  new functions. Type period `.` to enter free-text mode (just like in QS).
* Pressing kupfer's keybinding again will hide the window.
* Other smaller improvements

This release is localized in: Swedish (100%), Italian (60%)

kupfer version c8
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* Make the use of the indirect object pane much more fluid
* Apply interface polish (proper english capitalization of actions and
  other objects, other changes)
* Add `Copy To...` action
* Try `xdg-terminal` first in _Open Terminal Here_ (non-Gnome users can
  either install `xdg-terminal` or symlink it to their terminal program)
* Allow unbinding the keybinding
* Fix a bug with tracker tags

[Please file bug reports and feature requests.][lp]. Read the files in
`Documentation/` and see how you can add new plugins with object and 
application knowledge to kupfer.

This release is localized in: Swedish (100%), Italian (60%)

[lp]: http://launchpad.net/kupfer

kupfer version c7
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The "choice" release

This is a followup with some small changes after the c6 release, which
introduced lots of major changes, including a preferences window and
"application content."

* Allow wnck to be optional. Kupfer needs wnck to do application matching
  and focusing of already running applications, but can now run without it if
  wnck is not available. Window List plugin also needs wnck
* Rhythmbox plugin should not crash even if library is not found, now kupfer
  can run even if rhythmbox's files are not there.
* Applications will match names as well as the executables, so that "gedit"
  matches Text Editor regardless of what the displayed localized name is.


[Please file bug reports and feature requests.][lp]. Read the files in
`Documentation/` and see how you can add new plugins with object and 
application knowledge to kupfer.

This release is localized in: Swedish (100%), Italian (60%)

[lp]: http://launchpad.net/kupfer

kupfer version c6
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The "Sisyphus incremental improvements" release

* Preferences window
  * Allows setting keybinding on the fly
  * List and enable/disable plugins and set plugin options
* Everything was improved slightly, but steadily
* Understands more applications, provides more files and objects,
  and actions with **new plugins:** *Rhythmbox, Abiword, Clipboards, Dictionary,
  Favorites, Selected Text, Wikipedia*
* Connect applications with their related object sources and make it their
  content, such as Rhythmbox music for the Rhythmbox application.
  * Applications contain their recently used documents, if
    available.
  * Firefox and Epiphany bookmarks are identified with each application
* Miscellaneous improvements:
  * Kupfer object icon ("blue box")
  * _Some_ default application associations are installed (others
    are learned by launching applications).
  * Experimental UI with two-line title+description in browse mode
  * Thumbnails for files and albums in browse mode
  * Allow sending files and queries to kupfer from the commandline
    using `kupfer 'query'` or `kupfer docs/file.pdf`.
  * Even more plugins listen to change callbacks or filesystem monitors
    to be up to date to the instant.
  * Do not display nonexisting files as results
  * Fine-tune how sources are loaded and refreshed on load

This release deserves lots of testing. [File bug reports and feature
requests.][bug] Read the files in `Documentation/` and see how you can add
new plugins with object and application knowledge to kupfer.

This release is localized in: Swedish (100%), Italian (60%)

Future: part 2 of beautification is refactoring of the interface, so
that the UI can be modularized and exchanged in plugins.

[bug]: http://launchpad.net/kupfer

kupfer version c5
-----------------

The "Beauty from the inside, part 1" release

* Big refactorings of the whole data model
  * Move all of the data model to kupfer.data
  * Allow actions with indirect objects "threepane kupfer" (with
    means to configure which objects to use for an action etc)
  * Uses unicode internally, instead of UTF-8-encoded strings
* Some new actions using new possibilities (Open with any, Move file
  to new location, Add/Remove tracker tags) but more is possible.
* Basic manual page included
* Fileactions plugin includes unpack archive/create archive
* Ship extra and demonstration plugins in contrib/ and interals
  documentation in Documentation/
* Change learning algorithm to recognize an item's type as well
  (so that two objects named "project" can be ranked differently)
* Small fixes (alphabethic sorting for applications, sources, check
  if objects still exist after an action, rank_adjust default actions
  slightly)

This release deserves lots of testing. File bug reports and feature
requests. Read the files in Documentation/ and see how you can add
new plugins with object and application knowledge to kupfer.

This release is localized in: Swedish (100%), Italian (80%)

Future: part 2 of beautification is refactoring of the interface, so
that the UI can be exchanged. And preferences will hopefully be implemented

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