File Release Notes and Changelog
Release Name: 1.3.0
Notes: The final version of v1.3.0 has been released! The major highlights of this release include some new features, much more GNOME integration (session management, libglade, popt), and various improvements and bug fixes.
Changes: New Features: <ul> <li> New preferences for limiting the number of undo levels.</li> <li> Session management (saving opened files on exiting gnotepad, and automatically opening them when starting again).</li> <li> Wheeled-mouse support.</li> </ul> Improvements: <ul> <li> Update man page to reflect new command line options.</li> <li> Use new pixmap icon, taken from the unused GNOME icon set.</li> <li> Updated Japanese translation (Yoichi Asai).</li> <li> Updated Danish translation (Birger Langkjer).</li> <li> For GNOME, use popt to parse command line. For non-GNOME, use getopt() or getopt_long() if available.</li> <li> Use GNOME properties box, so that the preferences dialog looks consistent with other GNOME applications.</li> <li>Minor cleanups of search/replace code.</li> <li>Use libglade for building a number of the dialogs (preferences, about, search, search/replace, goto line, doclist, winlist, message box, and HTML tag chooser).</li> <li>GNOME help files (HTML) for the Preferences/Properties dialog box.</li> <li>Saving preferences is a LOT faster now.</li> <li>Provide options to put username and/or hostname into the window title.</li> <li>Search and replace now reports how many replacements were made.</li> </ul> Fixes: <ul> <li> Changes in print command were never saved (Jim Clark). <li>"Tab Stop Width" had incorrect French translation (Roland Baudin).</li> <li>Always save window size, but disallow user to specify size in prefs, and only allow user to toggle it on/off.</li> <li>Newly created Untitled docs didn't get correct fonts and color settings if a GTK theme is used which already sets them (Yoichi Asai).</li> <li>Regular expression searches were always enabled/used by default.</li> <li>Undoing replaced text whose initial search was not case sensitive resulted in restoring the text initially searched for, not the text actually replaced (initial text and actual text may have different cases).</li> <li>Repeated undos after HTML tag insertion on highlighted characters results in a crash (James LewisMoss).</li> </ul>
