Goby / News: Recent posts

Bugfix release:

* Saving/restoring window size and position with exact accuracy; due to the differences in the way various WMs manage their windows, there is no universal solution. The current implementation will work "correctly" with only Metacity. With Compiz the windows will be misaligned by their borders.

* Fixed bug: statusbar setting is not saved
* Fixed bug: accelerators blocking key press events to the path entry bar
* Fixed bug 1580530: Weird window resizing behavior
* Some minor bugfixes
* Fullscreen and maximized window states are saved (when "Save state on exit" is set)
* Title bar shows an image index (i.e. position of the current image out of all the images in the folder) and the number of all the images in the folder
* Added single instance support; the application is managed as single instance by default; to launch additional windows, pass --new-window as an argument
* Path entry bar accepts both URI (e.g. file:///...) and local path format
* Added partial support for Extended Window Manager Hints (EWMH); work area of the desktop (i.e. desktop area without docks and panels) is maintained by the application
* Updated autotools setup

0.3.7.* branch is an experimental branch to test new features:

* added an option to show/hide the file tree (View->Show File Tree)
* added an option to enlarge small images according to the application's current zoom mode; for example, when the zoom mode is "Fit to Width", an image smaller than its window will blow up to fit to the window's width (this option is found in the preferences dialog under the "View" tab)
* bug: config file adding empty lines (already fixed in the 0.3.6.* branch)

Bugfix release:

* bug: config file adding empty lines

* bug 1572295: goby_image_cache_add() with invalid pixbuf
* bug 1572965: multiple list_view_cursor_changed_cb() calls with keyboard
* memory leak fixes

Bugfix release:

* bug 1568038: Lag when switching from view mode to browse mode; note that the bugfix needs refinement, as the current solution is too hackish
* bug 1568039: Crash upon modifying last open directory
* bug: the application keeps adding blank lines to the config file
* config file is now saved at $HOME/.config/goby instead of $HOME/.config/.goby (note the removal of the dot)

* Fixed some issues with saving/restoring window size and zoom mode
* The internals of folder tree has been simplified; GtkTreeModelFilter is no longer used

* Gentoo ebuild of Goby has been kindly provided by Robert Wolf
* Some of the UI settings are maintained separately between the browse mode and the view mode
* Filesystem error messages are flashed on the statusbar

* handle filesystem errors (e.g. permissions denied) gracefully
* statusbar is derived from GtkStatusbar; the statusbar displays a resize grip
* changes in the menu layout

* new, faster GobyImageView
* session management based on config file
* added preferences dialog
* added path entry bar

* Command line support; passing a path to an image or a folder will start Goby in view mode or browse mode, respectively (path must be encoded in UTF-8)
* Small fixes to the UI behavior
* I/O is minimized when moving up/down the cursor in the file list

* Read-ahead and caching support
* Improved response
* Mouse cursor turns into a watch cue when loading directories

* Support for mouse-based navigation and zooming
* Window resizes correctly on mode change
* Fixed some bugs with file monitoring