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@gsemet gsemet released this 11 Apr 21:36
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Release Summary

This version of Guake brings mostly bug fixes, and some new features like "Quick Open on selection". I have also reworked internally the Quick Open so that it can automatically open files from logs from pytest and other python development tools output. However, there might still some false positive on the hovering of the mouse in the terminal, the most famous being the output of ls -l which may have the mouse looks like it sees hyperlinks on the terminal everywhere. Click does nothing but its an annoying limitation.

Package maintainers should read the "Notes for Package Maintainers" of this release note carefully.

New Features

  • New "start at login" option in the settings (only for GNOME) #251

  • Add --verbose/-v parameter to enable debug logging. Please note the existing -v (for version number) has been renamed -V.

  • Support for hyperlink VTE extension (described here ) #945 (Untested, as it requires VTE 0.50)

  • Add great color palettes from Guake Color Scheme, thanks for @ziyenano :

    • Aci,
    • aco,
    • Azu,
    • Bim,
    • Cai,
    • Elementary,
    • Elic,
    • Elio,
    • Freya,
    • Gruvbox Dark,
    • Hemisu Dark,
    • Hemisu Light,
    • Jup,
    • Mar,
    • Material,
    • Miu,
    • Monokai dark,
    • Nep,
    • One Light,
    • Pali,
    • Peppermint,
    • Sat,
    • Shel,
    • Tin,
    • Ura,
    • Vag.

  • Allow application to capture right click (ex: Midnight commander). #1096. It is still possible to show the contextual menu with Shift+right click.

Bug Fixes

  • delete tab even without libutempter (#1198)

  • Fix crash when changing command file #1229

  • fix import sys in simplegladeapp.py

  • change scope of which_align variable in pref.py (#1225)

  • Fix user interface translations #1228

  • Fix several issues on Quick Edit:

    • quick open freezes guake

    • support for systems with PCRE2 (regular expression in terminal) disabled for VTE, like Ubuntu 17.10 and +.

      This might disable quick open and open url on direct Ctrl+click. User can still select the wanted url or text and Cltr+click or use contextual menu.

      See this discussion on Tilix, another Terminal emulator that suffurs the same issue.

    • quick open now appears in contextual menu (#1157)

    • bad translation update on the contextual menu. This causes new strings that was hidden to appear for translators.

    • Fix quick open on pattern "File:line" line that was not opening the wanted file.

  • Some systems such as Ubuntu did displayed Guake with a translated interface (#1209). The locale system has been reworked to fix that.

  • There might be broken translations, or not up-to-date language support by Guake. A global refresh of all existing translations would be welcomed. Most has not been updated since the transition to Guake 3, so these languages support might probably be unfunctional or at least partialy localized.

  • A big thank you for all the volunteers and Guake enthousiats would often update their own translation to help guake being used world-wide.

    • Help is always welcomed for updating translations !

  • Support for vte 2.91 (0.52) #1222

Translation Updates

  • fr_FR
  • pl
  • de

Notes for Package Maintainers

  • The setup mecanism has changed a little bit. Some maintainers used to patch the source code of Guake to change the pixmap, Gtk schema or locale paths directly in the guake/globals.py file. This was due to a lack of flexibility of the installation target of the Makefile.

    The make install target looks now a little bit more familiar, allowing distribution packager to set the various paths directly with make flags.

    For example:

    sudo make install \
    prefix=/usr \
    DESTDIR=/path/for/packager \
    PYTHON_SITE_PACKAGE_NAME=site-package \
    localedir=/usr/share/locale

    The main overrides are:

    • IMAGE_DIR: where the pixmap should be installed. Default: /usr/local/share/guake/pixmaps
    • localedir: where locales should be installed. Default: /usr/local/share/locale
    • GLADE_DIR: where the Glade files should be installed. Default: /usr/local/share/guake
    • gsettingsschemadir: where gsettings/dconf schema should be installed. Default: /usr/local/share/glib-2.0/schemas/

    I invite package maintainers to open tickets on Github about any other difficulties encountered when packaging Guake.

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