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Makagiga Changelog

What's new in Makagiga 5.5 Beta

Jul 16, 2015
  • Notepad: Do not show auto completion popup after cut/paste
  • Add "Draft" sample category
  • Better plugin download error messages
  • Improve error handling in internal HTML viewer
  • Tweak tabs width (issue #27)
  • Link plugin: Refresh UI layout
  • Minor UI fixes

New in Makagiga 5.4 (Apr 2, 2015)

  • Plugins designed for Makagiga older than 4.6 are now disabled
  • (marked as "Incompatible").
  • You can periodically check for updates in menu|Tools|Plugins|Update Plugins
  • USER INTERFACE:
  • Fixed: Missing text labels in some number input fields
  • Improve monospace (fixed-width) font in some UI elements
  • Larger color chooser buttons
  • A bit more friendly Security dialog window
  • TEXT EDITOR:
  • Fix HTML paste
  • TREE:
  • A more strict checking for a reserved names in new files and folders(for compatibility with Windows platform)
  • MISC.:
  • Fix crash on some Xinerama multiscreens
  • Update Polish translation
  • Show screen devices in About|System tab
  • Update bundled JRE
  • SOURCE:
  • Add "ant error-prone" command (need Google Error Prone 2.x library)
  • Remove deprecated UI._ methods (see PORTING.txt)

New in Makagiga 5.3 Beta (Mar 3, 2015)

  • Show program PID in About|System tab
  • MISC.:
  • New: Redesigned and updated Statistics plugin:
  • Removed Tools|Statistcs menu item
  • Added Help|About|Statistics tab
  • Added View|Statistics tab
  • New: Tasks statistics for a selected files/folders (see context menu)
  • (feature request #20)
  • New: Add "--at" command-line option to enable Screen Reader (Windows only)
  • Get More Plugins window: Text auto completion in search box
  • Update "New File" window
  • Update "Backup" wizard window
  • Minor bugfixes
  • NOTEPAD:
  • "Email" syntax highlighting (quoted text only)
  • TASKS:
  • Improve "Edit Repeat Rule" window
  • Improve summary edit window
  • Removed export to XHTML and HTML 4.x (export to HTML 5 is now the new default)
  • Improve Duration Editor window
  • HTML TEXT EDITOR:
  • New: Insert Image: Option to copy the original file into Makagiga folder
  • IMAGE EDITOR:
  • Resize Dialog: Fix app freeze during image resize
  • Resize Dialog: Update window UI
  • FEED VIEWER:
  • Properties window:
  • Remove "Feed address" pane (the address now can be found in "Information" tab)
  • Rename "Advanced" tab to "Feed"
  • Add How-To Geek sample RSS
  • Fixed: Do not download RSS feeds content if application is in offline mode
  • (bug #22)
  • Fixed: Mark all as read and preview filters w/o RSS downloading
  • USER INTERFACE:
  • New titled menu separators
  • Metal LAF: Bigger keyboard shortcut font in menus
  • Update/fix UI in "wizard" dialogs
  • Settings window: Smaller input field width
  • Windows: Better fixed-width font
  • Clean up tool bars in tabs
  • Reduce saturation in some Oxygen icons
  • Various tweaks

New in Makagiga 5.2 (Dec 29, 2014)

  • Use secure "https" instead of "http" by default
  • Minor User Interface tweaks
  • Look and Feel settings: Windows 8.x preview image
  • Fixed: Do not change Notepad settings after Cancel button press
  • Tasks: New check mark icon in "Properties" column
  • Updated the Polish translation
  • + minor bugfixes

New in Makagiga 5.1 Beta 1 (Oct 23, 2014)

  • Fixed: Do not save settings if user cancelled dialog window
  • Metal Look and Feel: New check box gradient
  • Fixed: Add missing "Menu" key support in Category editor, Proxy list, and Console settings
  • Increase minimum required password length to 12 characters
  • Updated Java JRE to version 8u25

New in Makagiga 5.0 (Aug 4, 2014)

  • User Interface:
  • Update password dialog window; new online password generator link
  • Various bug fixes and improvements
  • RSS Viewer:
  • Warn if an URL contains a 202e (Unicode right-to-left override) character
  • Fixed: Resolve HTML Entities in "Add Feed" dialog window (e.g. show ">" instead of ">")
  • Notepad:
  • EXPERIMENTAL: Java source and Patch/Diff syntax highlighting
  • Tasks:
  • Fixed: Show items in Tasks summary panel again after password protection remove
  • Task table view optimizations
  • Tree:
  • NEW: Search Bar: Add "Back" button which can be used to switch between Tree and search results
  • Misc:
  • New old icon
  • Linux: Basic Enlightenment and LXQt desktop environment support
  • Fixed: Ignore system tray icon clicks if a modal dialog window is visible
  • Fixed: Do not show "Add Task" menu in password fields
  • NEW: Color choosers: Add "System" color palette (current Windows colors)
  • Updated Polish translation
  • Scripting: Temporarily hide script snippets that don't work with Nashorn and Security Manager
  • Image Viewer:
  • EXPERIMENTAL: Image Info: Add "Copy as data: URI" action
  • Source:
  • Fixed Javadoc warnings and errors
  • Fixed minor issues reported by PMD tool
  • Fixed warnings and errors reported by Eclipse Compiler
  • SDK Wizard:
  • NEW: Add "Look and Feel" settings

New in Makagiga 4.99.1 Beta (Jun 17, 2014)

  • Notepad:
  • NEW: Added View|Syntax Highlighting menu. This feature is experimental and currently supports only HTML and JavaScript syntax.
  • NEW: Added option to disable Text Auto Completion
  • NEW: Auto completion of month/day names
  • Tasks:
  • New task color chooser in table context menu
  • Feed Viewer:
  • NEW: Show RSS favicons in Tree
  • Fixed XML parsing errors
  • Widgets:
  • Calendar: Use narrow (one letter) day name format if widget size is small
  • Clocks: New time zone chooser
  • NEW: Snap to other widgets during drag and drop
  • Tree:
  • NEW: Show folder content ("Items:") in tool tip
  • Fixed: Do not add encrypted tasks to the "Recently Completed" list
  • User Interface:
  • NEW: Updated and modernized the standard Metal theme
  • Fixed: Windows OS: Use OK-Cancel-Apply layout in dialogs (instead of OK-Apply-Cancel)
  • NEW: Highlight search results in table views
  • Smooth scroll animations in various views
  • Minor UI tweaks and improvements
  • NEW in Color Choosers:
  • Added "Retro" color palette
  • Added black and white colors to the default "Oxygen" color palette
  • Added History menu
  • Show "Current" color in dialog window
  • Misc.:
  • NEW: Console Settings: Added "Copy" and "Revert" menu items
  • Updated bundled/private Java to version 8 Update 5
  • NEW: Added Help|Check for Updates menu item
  • + Bug-fixes and minor improvements
  • NEW in Scripting:
  • New output/error console
  • Configurable font in built-in script editor
  • Syntax Highlighting is now available by default (the old Syntax Highlighting plugin is no longer supported in Makagiga 5.x)
  • Source:
  • Fixed/Updated Eclipse and NetBeans project files
  • Added "ui/run" stock icon

New in Makagiga 4.99 Beta (Apr 11, 2014)

  • NEW: Press Ctrl+Up/Down in text editor to scroll up/down without changing the current selection
  • NEW: Category name auto completion in task filter panels
  • NEW: Preview in RSS Filters window
  • General Settings: Added "Insert" button instead of context menu
  • Fixed: Correct month name format in some UI elements
  • Updated Java-related links and documentation
  • Updated the Polish translation
  • SDK:
  • Added File|Settings menu item
  • Removed internal "--test-sdk" command line option (use "ant run-sdk" command instead)

New in Makagiga 4.12 (Dec 6, 2013)

  • Tasks: Move selection related actions to the "Selection" submenu
  • Image Viewer: Use nicer background color in full screen "presentation mode"
  • Updated the Polish translation
  • Simplified Windows uninstall wizard
  • Minor bug-fixes and improvements
  • Console:
  • Settings panel: Also filter by type and info column
  • Disable plugin installer/downloader/updater if the "Kiosk.Plugin.manager" option is turned off
  • Various "Kiosk.*" option fixes
  • Added "Kiosk.Action.help" option to disable "Help" menu/buttons
  • Source:
  • Improved compatibility with JDK8-ea
  • API Changes

New in Makagiga 4.11 Beta (Nov 21, 2013)

  • Tasks:
  • NEW: "Add Task" in system tray icon menu
  • NEW: Show categories in "Summary" column by default
  • NEW: Show "Recently Completed" tasks in sidebar panel
  • Improved table view header and its context menu actions
  • Month Calendar: Highlight active fields in date editor (highlighted fields can be modified with Up/Down key)
  • Fixed/improved export to HTML
  • Source:
  • Improved compatibility with Java 8

New in Makagiga 4.10 (Sep 24, 2013)

  • Tasks:
  • NEW: Added "Set Duration..." action to the context menu
  • NEW: Use colors in Alarm notification window
  • Properties sidebar: Removed "Edit Summary..." button; show summary of all selected tasks
  • Better task sorting in Alarm notification
  • Feed Viewer:
  • Improved "Save As" function
  • Podcast downloader: Use article title as default save file name
  • Misc:
  • NEW: Text Fields/Editors: Added "Add Task" action to the context menu
  • Fixed: Do not accidentally render plain text as HTML
  • Updated Polish translation
  • Minor UI updates and tweaks
  • Minor bug-fixes
  • Source/Build System:
  • Fixed minor issues reported by FindBugs and PMD
  • Simplified and faster build process: - Drop *.properties compiler and related API - Translations: Message_xx.class moved to org/makagiga/commons/i18n/xx.properties - build.xml: Removed "compile-properties" and "compile-properties-quick" targets - Removed temporary makagiga-blob.jar file; makagiga.jar now contains all the makagiga-blob.jar content - Use "yyyy-MM-dd" date format in build info

New in Makagiga 4.9.1 Beta (Sep 5, 2013)

  • Tasks:
  • Alarm: Put recent overdue tasks on top
  • Misc.:
  • Notifications: Show a small animation whenever a new message is added
  • Wikipedia viewer: Fixed language list sorting; show recently used language on top
  • Security Manager:
  • Run user scripts with security manager
  • Auto block all security policy changes
  • Better permission descriptions
  • Source:
  • Compatibility with JDK 8 (see PORTING.txt)

New in Makagiga 4.8 (Apr 10, 2013)

  • NEW: MATE Desktop Environment support
  • NEW: Show "Refresh All RSS Feeds" action in system tray menu
  • NEW: Image Editor: Added "Colors/Hue-Saturation-Brightness" image filter
  • NEW: Tasks Summary: Group tasks by Year/Month and Start Date/Time
  • NEW: Table sorting and filtering in Proxy and Console settings
  • Fixed: Better text cursor color in customized text editors
  • Minor User Interface tweaks
  • Updated Polish translation
  • API changes

New in Makagiga 4.6 (Feb 9, 2013)

  • NEW: Notepad: Word Count preview
  • Internet Search widget: better menu icon color
  • NEW: Plugin Installer: Show author, license type, and home page in confirmation window
  • Optimized image loading in icon chooser window
  • Improved security manager
  • Improved tasks menu in system tray
  • Updated Polish translation
  • Minor bugfixes and UI improvements
  • Image Viewer:
  • Fixed: Preserve image transparency on file export
  • Fixed background color in copied BMP image
  • Delete Private Data:
  • Show directory size in tool tips
  • Sort document list by date; show document type
  • SDK:
  • Clean up plugin examples and documentation links
  • Updated and fixed unit tests
  • API Changes

New in Makagiga 4.5 Beta (Jan 17, 2013)

  • Tasks:
  • New plain text format based on Org mode
  • Hint: you can export Makagiga tasks as
  • Org mode text via menu Edit -> Copy or File -> Export
  • Fixed multiline summary rendering in UI
  • Tasks Summary:
  • Fixed: Collapse/restore tree nodes on filter clear
  • Bold font in summary text
  • Improved printing
  • Misc. bugfixes and UI tweaks
  • Feed Reader:
  • Fixed Atom feeds autodiscovery
  • Viewer Tab: Quick RSS Feed configuration via "Settings" button
  • "Add Feed" window: Convenient "Block Images" and "Exclude from..." options
  • MS Windows:
  • Fixed application shortcuts and launchers (run.exe and run-portable.exe)
  • Use "Consolas" as monospaced font if possible
  • Fixed "Cancel" button in dialog windows
  • Misc.:
  • Fixed: Show text completion window above text field if validator message
  • is visible; do not hover validator text messages
  • Show list action buttons in Plugins tab and in font chooser dialog
  • New and updated icons in many UI elements
  • Fixed: Show error message if plugin download failed
  • Improved security manager
  • CDE/Motif Look and Feel is back
  • Scripting: Updated JavaScript snippets
  • Minor updates and fixes

New in Makagiga 4.3.1 Beta (Aug 14, 2012)

  • Updated Polish translation
  • RSS Viewer: Show actual link address instead of "Complete Story" text
  • Improved support for JGoodies Looks and Sea Glass Look and Feels
  • Scripting: Improved built-in script editor

New in Makagiga 4.3 Beta (May 23, 2012)

  • Tasks:
  • NEW: EXPERIMENTAL: Repeat rules for recurring tasks:
  • 1. Click Task Properties -> Edit Repeat Rule
  • 2. Click Task Properties -> Apply Repeat Rule or mark task as "done"
  • NEW: Added "Task Properties" toolbar button
  • NEW: Day Tags. Click on a day button in Calendar widget or Calendar tab
  • to add a small icon and text.
  • NEW: Group tasks by week and month ("This Week", "This Month")
  • Improved value editing using Enter key
  • Updated date/time chooser window
  • New date/time display format in task lists
  • Alarms: Do not popup alarm notification after every window unlock
  • Disable animations in some Month Calendar panels to improve performance
  • Renamed the "o" column (it's now called "Task Properties")
  • Hide Tasks-related UI if all Todo plugins are disabled
  • Security:
  • NEW: EXPERIMENTAL: Security Manager. SM can detect and block suspicious plugin
  • activity such as unauthorized file system or Internet access.
  • NEW: EXPERIMENTAL: Master/Login Password support.
  • Allows you to encrypt and decrypt Makagiga documents with single click.
  • Currently this feature requires "login" plugin version from the SVN repository.
  • User Interface:
  • NEW: Tabs: Show text alongside icons in all tab tool bars
  • NEW: Improved "color" rendering in various views:
  • Task List, Task Summary, RSS Articles, Tabs...
  • Search/Filter panes: Paint "stripes" to indicate input erro
  • KDE: Changed "Full Screen" keyboard shortcut to F11
  • Various hacks and fixes for Sea Glass LAF v0.1.7.4svn
  • Support for custom colors in A03 Look and Feel
  • Misc.:
  • NEW: menu bar -> Help -> Topics -> What's New?
  • RSS Reader: Improved error messages in Feed Viewer tab
  • RSS Viewer: Fixed error caused by articles with quote character in title
  • Tree: Show file import progress
  • Location Bar: Create a more standards-compliant URI locations (e.g. file:///foo)
  • NEW: Added "Work Offline" option (menu bar -> File -> Work Offline).
  • If this option is selected some Internet operations
  • (e.g. checking for updates or fetching RSS feeds) are suspended.
  • Optimized logging
  • Optimized configuration saving
  • Text Editors: Restore correct "text" mouse cursor after lengthy operation
  • Fixed incomplete stack trace info in "Error Details" window
  • Fixed Undo/Redo in Network Proxy settings
  • Thumb preview in file chooser: Show preview for all text files;
  • optimized Zip archive preview
  • Color Chooser: Improved "Color Picker" tab
  • Links plugin: Improved UI layout
  • Properties Bar: Show large tool tips above input fields
  • (no more mouse input blocking)
  • Console:
  • NEW: Added "Kiosk.Action.bookmark" option
  • to disable any Tree and Font bookmark modifications
  • NEW: Type "help " to display additional command options
  • debug: Do not print file cache info by default
  • Windows: Use "Lucida Console" as default fixed-width font
  • Windows: Fixed text zoom in/out
  • Backup:
  • Always backup RSS Archive; do not backup "cache" directory
  • Added "Backup Profiles" option
  • Added backup restore instructions
  • (see "MAKAGIGA BACKUP INFO.html" file in backup zip archive)
  • SDK:
  • Simplified Editor plugin templates
  • Disk Free example: Fixed double entries in advanced settings
  • Fixed "Could not find the main class: makagiga.sdk.SDK. Program will exit" error
  • Windows: Fixed Ant launcher
  • Updated API documentation
  • Source:
  • Improved compiling/building on Windows platform
  • Updated 3rd party libs (commons codec 1.6, DropShadowBorder)

New in Makagiga 4.2 (Mar 5, 2012)

  • Tree:
  • NEW: Option to hide/display item colors (e.g. folder color).
  • Currently this option does not apply to RSS articles.
  • Import image URLs via drag and drop
  • NEW: Searching by color (see Search dialog)
  • Added Ctrl+F7 keyboard shortcut (Search dialog)
  • Internet Search Widget:
  • Open main web page if no text
  • Install OpenSearch addons using autodiscovery (see examples)
  • Fixed small favicons
  • Updated OpenSearch installer
  • Image Editor/Viewer:
  • NEW: "Blur / Black Edges" filter
  • Updated tool bar and Edit menu
  • Link Plugin:
  • NEW: Full support for *.url (Internet Shortcut) and *.desktop files
  • Misc.:
  • Updated Polish translation
  • Updated Oxygen Icon Theme
  • Faster application startup (optimized plugin language translation loading, optimized RSS Archive loading...)
  • Widgets: Repaint background after wallpaper change
  • Feed Viewer Tab: Added Settings button
  • Text/HTML Editor: Generate a nice thumb preview image on document save
  • NEW: Update Plugin: Added "Show Java Updates" option
  • Console Tab: Sane Edit/View menus
  • Updated status bar
  • Various bugfixes and improvements
  • SDK:
  • New "stock" icons: ui/color, ui/feedback, ui/tags, ui/random, ui/filter
  • NEW: Initial support for language translation plugins
  • Fixed: Always use Java 7 to avoid Ant errors
  • and java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError exception
  • List of API Changes (auto-generated, 4.0 -> 4.2)

New in Makagiga 4.1.1 Beta (Feb 2, 2012)

  • Tree:
  • Fixed: Correctly validate maximum new file/folder name length
  • Properties Bar: Fixed annoying tool tip popups on bottom of the screen that blocked mouse input
  • Feed Reader:
  • Wide List View: Hide filtered articles, show custom article colors
  • Text/HTML Editor:
  • NEW: Superscript and Subscript support (see Edit menu and Designer panel)
  • Designer panel: Font chooser dialog, Highlight button
  • Fixed the default document CSS
  • Image Viewer:
  • Added "F" keyboard shortcut (auto fit in window)
  • Fixed: Update scroll bars in all open documents after zoom in/out
  • User Interface:
  • Improved color choosers (example: Note widget settings):
  • "Swap Color" action
  • "Automatic Color" action
  • Nimbus Look And Feel: Custom font support
  • (see Settings -> Advanced -> Look and Feel)
  • Improved support for Pgs Look and Feel
  • Substance Look And Feel: Better support for dark color themes
  • Misc.:
  • Updated Polish translation
  • Improved built-in help; see Help -> Topics menu
  • Linux: Print colored logs to stderr (red errors, green infos, etc.)
  • Script editor: Show "Syntax Highlighting" install button
  • Tags menu: "Open All in Tabs" action for items with categories
  • Calendar panel: Improved current day indicator
  • Text editors: Paste plain text if HTML content is not available
  • Show widget names in "What's This?" (Shift+F1) mode
  • Simplified URL addresses in link buttons and tool tips
  • (http://example.com/ -> example.com)
  • Category preview in Category editor
  • Color choosers: Added "Android" color palette
  • + Various bugfixes and minor improvements
  • Console:
  • "clear" command: Do not remove command history (clear output and logs only)
  • Source:
  • Updated and fixed unit test
  • SDK:
  • Hide useless "heap memory" button

New in Makagiga 4.1 Beta (Dec 6, 2011)

  • Text/HTML Editor:
  • EXPERIMENTAL: Insert Table action (Edit -> Insert -> Insert Table...)
  • Insert Image action (Edit -> Insert -> Insert Image...)
  • File Cache:
  • Smaller disk usage in "portable" mode
  • Fixed: Correctly remove unused cache entries
  • Image Viewer:
  • Show JPEG comments in the Info panel
  • Search files by JPEG comment (Tree panel)
  • Misc.:
  • About box: Draw large logo in right-bottom window corner
  • Various animations in dialog windows
  • Limit dialog window size on large screens
  • Linux:
  • E17 Desktop Environment support
  • GNOME 3: Fix \r and \n (new line) in window titles

New in Makagiga 4.0 (Sep 9, 2011)

  • Calendar widget: Added Page Up/Down keyboard shortcuts (previous/next month)
  • Color Picker: Fixed color palette selection
  • Color Dialog: Improved "Color Picker" tab
  • Widget/Document list button: Fixed "double" popup menus
  • More readable Java version number in Update tab
  • Shorter and more readable home page URLs in About window
  • Use "hand" mouse cursor in all tables
  • Backup Wizard: Do not reset entered zip file name after directory change
  • Widgets: Disable Ctrl+F4 (Close) and Ctrl+F9 (Minimize) keyboard shortcuts
  • if widgets are locked
  • Notification window: Improved window resizing on mouse click
  • Updated Polish translation
  • Plugin Settings tab:
  • Focus search field by default
  • Auto reopen tab on application startup
  • SDK:
  • Plugin Framework: Detect slow plugins and print report to stderr (developer mode only)

New in Makagiga 3.99.0 Beta (Aug 9, 2011)

  • Binary Packages (zip, rpm, etc.):
  • Removed i18n.jar and images.jar files;
  • merged all jars into one makagiga.jar
  • User Interface:
  • NEW: New splash screen image and progress bar
  • Color Pickers:
  • Improved User Interface
  • Removed "" color palette
  • Updated Oxygen Icon Theme
  • Mouse Gestures: Removed middle mouse button support
  • Paint focus border using dashed lines
  • Updated color palette and gradient style
  • (Task Table, Task Summary panel, and more)
  • Removed main menu -> View -> Main Tool Bar option
  • Removed main menu -> View -> Tool Bars -> Status Bar option.
  • The status bar is now hidden by default.
  • Fixed: Respect "Show Button Icons" option in all Makagiga UI
  • See also: Blog posts with label 4.0
  • Plugins:
  • NEW: Show Plugin Settings in a Tab instead of modal dialog window
  • Removed full screen "Presentation" mode;
  • it is now available as an external plugin
  • Improved Plugin Updater
  • Todo List Plugin:
  • NEW: Full screen Calendar tab with visible task list for each day
  • (see menu -> Tools -> Calendar)
  • Improved Task summary panel (Sidebar)
  • Improved column sorting
  • NEW: Press Ctrl+Enter to display a date/time dialog window and add a new task
  • NEW: Sidebar: Show big hour/minute text for Today and Tomorrow tasks
  • Due Date/Time column:
  • NEW: Show modal dialog with date/time chooser on click
  • Fixed text auto completion in "Due Date/Time" editor
  • Larger default column width
  • Fixed export to CSV / HTML
  • Fixed Ctrl+C/V/X keyboard shortcuts
  • Fixed: Added workaround for Java Bug #6440214 (XML parsing error)
  • Context Menu:
  • (Re)added "Done" menu item
  • Simplified menu items
  • A less distracting strike-through (horizontal line) color for completed tasks
  • Notepad Plugin:
  • Fixed: Do not steal editor input focus on Ctrl+Shift+H press (HTML Preview)
  • Image Viewer/Editor Plugin:
  • Scale Image Dialog: Added more size templates
  • Fixed: Accept and paste dropped image
  • Fixed image location and background color in full screen Presentation mode
  • Fixed
  • "javax.imageio.IIOException: JFIF APP0 must be first marker after SOI" error
  • Link Plugin:
  • Improved .desktop file format support
  • Faster file load
  • Widgets:
  • Load widgets "in background" for faster application startup
  • NEW: Show/hide tool bar and Close/Minimize buttons on mouse hover
  • Fixed: Use "Custom Font" in title bars
  • Faster drag-and-drop and animations
  • Todo Widget:
  • NEW: Added option to change widget title/name
  • (see widget context menu -> Settings)
  • Internet Search Widget:
  • Updated look
  • Fixed Up/Down keyboard shortcuts
  • RSS Feed Reader Plugin:
  • NEW: Smaller and faster RSS archive format. You can find the backup of the OLD
  • archive in "RSS Archive Backup (for Makagiga 3.x).zip" file.
  • NEW: List View: Middle-click to open an article in a new tab
  • Images: Show title/alternate text in a tool tip
  • Fixed: Wrap long tool tip texts
  • Tree:
  • NEW: Search Query dialog: Added Preview panel
  • Updated RSS samples
  • Create Category samples on first application launch
  • Create Tree samples on first application launch
  • Fixed: Do not render Tree item names as HTML content
  • Tree Settings button: Added Advanced... menu item
  • Improved thumbnail generator
  • Tabs:
  • Show warning if file in open tab was modified by external application
  • Improved tabs header layout
  • Fixed: Hide/show text cursor after "Lock" button click
  • Improved and fixed Links button
  • Misc.:
  • Optimized application startup speed
  • Fixed: Suppressed "Missing Application resource" error messages
  • Properties Bar: Enable Star/Todo buttons by default
  • Delete Private Data:
  • Clear the clipboard system "selection"
  • Removed "Delete RSS Feeds Archive" option
  • Tags Menu:
  • NEW: Show Categories
  • Fixed: Correctly handle upper and lower case characters in tag names
  • Fixed: Limit menu height
  • Fixed a very long menu item text in Help menu
  • Added --test-time command line option (for testing only)
  • Date/time editor: Do not popup auto completion window on Up/Down key press
  • NEW: Clickable links in Plugins -> About -> License tab
  • Fixed automatic link detection for "file:///" and "" URLs
  • Fixed: Handle systems with unsupported System Tray
  • Paste actions: Disabled faulty clipboard content detection.
  • The Paste button is now always enabled.
  • Added function to re-enable all "Tips of the day" messages
  • (see menu -> Settings -> Advanced -> General)
  • Improved Font preview and Font Chooser dialog
  • Fixed: Do not show OS warning on every application startup
  • NEW: Rewritten cache system
  • Fixed text selection color in text editors and Note widget
  • + A lot of smaller updates and bug fixes
  • Linux:
  • Settings -> General -> Open Links With:
  • Added context menu with predefined Linux commands
  • System tray icon: Fixed ugly "gray" background color
  • Fixed: Larger mouse double-click interval
  • Shortcut: Added "StartupWMClass" property (experimental)
  • Upgraded xdg-utils to version 1.1.0-rc1. The xdg scripts are now included
  • directly in makagiga.jar and makagiga-commons.jar packages.
  • Windows:
  • Installer: Fixed encoding in Polish translation
  • Uninstaller
  • Correctly repair menu shortcuts
  • "Cancel" button to the confirmation messages
  • Updated .exe launchers
  • Console:
  • NEW: Added "Print Debug Messages" option to control "stderr" flow (see Tool Bar)
  • Added "Console.printStdErr" (see above) and "Console.printStdOut" variables
  • Scripting:
  • Handle errors if default JavaScript Engine does not exist
  • Script Editor: Fixed text selection color
  • Documentation:
  • README.html: Added Troubleshooting section
  • SDK/Source:
  • Migration to JDK 7 and NetBeans IDE 7.0
  • Added basic support for signed plugins
  • (see README.txt in a plugin project directory)
  • API clean up and refactoring - see PORTING.txt for details
  • Removed deprecated/unused code
  • Removed "ant validate" command
  • Updated CSS file for the new Javadoc tool

New in Makagiga 3.8.10 (Dec 28, 2010)

  • Tree:
  • Fixed: Quick Paste: Always save pasted text in UTF-8 encoding
  • NEW: Secure file deletion (experimental option)
  • Properties Bar:
  • (Re)Added Bookmark and Lock buttons - click "+" button to configure...
  • Added "Add Star" and "Todo" button.
  • Items with star or todo icon are now displayed in the "Bookmarks" menu.
  • Show text auto completion popup window for recently added tags
  • RSS Reader Plugin:
  • Fixed duplicated RSS articles
  • Add Feed window: Automatically paste and preview a new RSS address
  • Misc.:
  • Todo List: Improved export to HTML
  • Widgets: Better default location for new widgets
  • Task Summary: Show task categories
  • Color choosers: Remember and restore the previously selected color palette
  • GTK+ Look And Feel: Fixed combo box arrow button width
  • Links Button: Detect and show all URLs in the current document/tab
  • Improved GTK+ Look And Feel support
  • Updated Polish translation
  • Updated Oxygen Icon Theme
  • Added workaround for a slow UI in OpenJDK
  • + Small updates and fixes
  • Console:
  • Fixed stability issues
  • More readable output listings
  • Added "Kiosk.Notification.locked" option to lock Notification window position
  • Added "Kiosk.Table.columnReorderingAllowed" option to disable table column
  • reordering/resizing

New in Makagiga 3.8.9 (Nov 23, 2010)

  • User Interface:
  • NEW: Added Drop Shadows (based on the SwingX project)
  • A03 Look And Feel: Improved list, tree and table rendering
  • Misc.:
  • NEW: Show plugin preview image in file chooser
  • Help browser: Added "Forward" tool bar button
  • Print Preview: Improved page format options
  • Text fields: Show auto completion popup window on Up/Down key press
  • Tree Settings button: Improved thumbnail size configuration menu
  • Tree: "New Folder..." menu item is now always enabled
  • Widgets: Show "About" menu item in a widget context menu
  • Wikipedia Viewer: Show current page title in tab
  • Fixed memory leaks in New Folder and Properties dialog windows
  • Updated Polish translation
  • Console:
  • NEW: Added "jvisualvm" command
  • Speed optimizations
  • SDK:
  • Removed Makefile (Ant/build.xml wrapper)
  • Source:
  • Code and API clean up
  • API Changes

New in Makagiga 3.8.8 (Nov 8, 2010)

  • Calendar Widget:
  • NEW: Show day info and News in internal Wikipedia viewer
  • Month chooser menu: Added a nice icons with month numbers
  • Internet Search:
  • NEW: Show Wikipedia article in internal viewer
  • Widgets Tab:
  • Fixed text in View -> Lock menu item
  • Fixed close and minimize buttons in locked mode
  • Fixed: Never show Properties Bar or Text Search panel
  • RSS Viewer:
  • NEW: Added "Save As..." button
  • Fixed support for local files (file:// URLs)
  • Image Viewer:
  • Fixed UI layout in the Designer panel
  • Rich Text/HTML editor:
  • NEW: Added password protection support
  • User Interface:
  • NEW: Russian translation by Danil
  • NEW: Resizable modal dialog windows
  • Show LAF preview images in combo box
  • NEW: Show color palettes in color chooser dialog window
  • Updated color pickers
  • Improved "Quick Paste" dialog window
  • Always paint "prompt text" in empty focused text fields
  • Fixed Esc key and Tab-key navigation in "Add or Remove Plugins" window
  • Dialog window: Paint "tail" arrow above input validator message
  • Removed Previous/Next navigation buttons from the status bar area
  • EXPERIMENTAL: Mac: Use Mac OS X-like "?" button in dialog windows
  • A03 Look and Feel 4.0.4 is no longer supported;
  • please upgrade to version 4.0.5 or newer
  • Tabs context menu: Added "Copy File Location" menu item for files and documents
  • Misc.:
  • Task List: Fixed pasting of plain text
  • Updated Polish translation
  • NEW: Text editors: Added option to insert a "Ballot box" Unicode symbol.
  • See context menu -> More...
  • Fixed full screen window mode on Linux
  • (the full screen window is now always on top)
  • Fixed text auto completion popup window in some dialog boxes
  • Task Summary: Show total number of tasks in each group
  • Todo List statistics: Show numer of tasks
  • Backup: Show date of the last backup
  • Installer for Windows: Do not create Desktop shortcut
  • SDK:
  • NEW: Merged "sdk" and "platform" (7)zip packages into one file
  • Updated and fixed findbugs.xml template
  • i18n.sh file moved to the "po" subdirectory
  • A detailed comparison between the current and previous APIs
  • Sources:
  • build.xml: Fixed destination directory in the "validate" target
  • build.xml: Removed "platform" target; use "sdk" instead
  • Added tools/bugs-xml-to-txt.sh script
  • Java Web Start launchers: Changed update policy from "background" to "always"
  • Javadoc: Added links to external API docs

New in Makagiga 3.8.7 (Sep 28, 2010)

  • User Interface:
  • NEW: Added Widgets tab
  • NEW: Tab area is now on top; above editor tool bar
  • NEW: Added support for tab colors
  • NEW: Look and Feel preview in Settings window
  • NEW: Added "Internet Search" widget.
  • This replaces the old "Internet Search" panel on the main tool bar.
  • NEW: Re-Added option to hide the main tool bar
  • (menu -> View -> Tool Bars -> Main Tool Bar)
  • Screenshots
  • Changed location of the "Import" and "Export" menus;
  • added better info/error messages
  • Improved paste from clipboard (Ctrl+Shift+V) and drag and drop support
  • Task Summary: Show tasks for Tomorrow in a separated group
  • Tag Editor: Use standard background and foreground colors
  • for better integration with various color schemes
  • Added drop shadow plugin support for widgets without border
  • New side tool box in Image Viewer and Text Editor
  • Widgets: Fixed Ctrl+F4, Ctrl+F6 and Ctrl+F9 keyboard shortcuts
  • Removed "Print" button from the tab tool bar.
  • You can still use File|Print instead.
  • Update Plugin:
  • Added "Update Plugins..." button
  • Improved UI
  • RSS Reader:
  • New tool bar
  • Removed bottom tool bar and other redundant UI elements
  • Tab/Widget List button (Ctrl+Shift+G):
  • NEW: Added "Up" mouse gesture; see Help for more info
  • Button moved to the menu bar area (upper-right window corner)
  • Added Alt+1..0 keyboard shortcuts
  • Misc.:
  • Misc. fixes in File Properties dialog window
  • Internet search widget: Removed redundant "Are you sure?" confirmation message
  • Tree: Show error if new file name contains whitespace only
  • Updated Polish translation
  • SDK:
  • Fixed: Include required META-INF/trident-plugin.properties file
  • in the makagiga-commons.jar
  • Added ui/complete and ui/conversation stock icons
  • A detailed comparison between the current and previous API:

New in Makagiga 3.8.6 (Aug 10, 2010)

  • Widgets:
  • NEW: Added option to lock all widgets
  • RSS Reader:
  • Show link to embedded Flash movie (or descriptive error message)
  • instead of red "??"
  • The "Load the Complete Story" option is now enabled
  • only if "modern" HTML renderer is available
  • Image Viewer:
  • Added Color Opacity option
  • Show image load progress
  • Improved "Filters and Effects" window
  • Automatically collapse unused tool panels
  • Improved full screen "Presentation" view
  • HTML Text Editor:
  • This is now enabled by default again
  • Fixed keyboard shortcut for "Strike Through" action
  • Fixed "Show HTML" window
  • Updated "Designer" panel
  • Added "Highlight" tool
  • Todo Manager:
  • A new column view settings menu (see upper-right table corner)
  • Export to HTML 5 by default, generate more human-readable HTML code, ...
  • Improved Paste dialog
  • User Interface:
  • New animations (calendar, font chooser, widget close/move). You can disable
  • all animations in menu -> Tools -> Settings -> Advanced -> Look And Feel.
  • Tabs: Middle-button click to close a Tab under mouse cursor
  • Tool Bars: Show text alongside icons for small (16x16) icons
  • Properties Bar: Customizable view (see the "+" button)
  • System Tray Icon: "Add Sticky Note" replaced with "Paste Text as Sticky Note"
  • Link Button: Removed "Post to del.icio.us" menu item
  • Notification popup window is now always on top
  • Added option to hide "Internet Search" panel:
  • menu -> View -> Tool Bars -> Internet Search
  • Display "Cancel" button as hyperlink in dialog windows
  • Removed File -> Tabs menu
  • File -> Export menu moved to the Tree context menu
  • Removed duplicated Edit -> Settings menu item
  • (use Tools -> Settings instead, sorry GNOME users :)
  • Tree:
  • Optimized and fixed thumbnail preview generator
  • Misc.:
  • Updated Polish translation
  • Updated Oxygen Icon Theme
  • Plugin Downloader: Cache downloaded plugin list
  • Small updates and fixes
  • Console:
  • Added option to disable history limit (history --limit -1)
  • SDK:
  • Improved input field validators in project Wizard
  • Fixed UI layout in Wizard dialog
  • Source Files:
  • Javadoc/SyntaxHighlighter: Updated to version 3.0.83,
  • changed default theme to "Eclipse", added "Plain" brush
  • API:
  • Added Trident animation library (org.pushingpixels.trident package)
  • Added org.makagiga.Tab class
  • Added org.makagiga.commons.it package (iterator utilities)
  • Added org.makagiga.commons.transition package
  • Added MGraphics2D class
  • Added MURLButton.linkColor property
  • Added PropertyPanel.highlightFocusedEditor property
  • Added TK.maxLength(Iterable)
  • Added TK.capitalize(String)
  • Updated org.makagiga.db package (still experimental ;)
  • Re-implemented link checker (DefaultPageChecker class); MURLAction.secureOpen
  • and MURLButton.secureOpen properties are now "false" by default.
  • A detailed comparison between the current and previous API:

New in Makagiga 3.8.5 (May 27, 2010)

  • User Interface:
  • NEW: More small icons in tabs and menu items
  • NEW: Tree: Added option to set small icons
  • (see main tool bar -> Tree Settings -> Small Icons)
  • Removed "Special Effects" option
  • Refreshed "Look and feel" settings panel
  • A03 Look and Feel: Squeeze long text to fit in tab title
  • Todo List:
  • Added export to iCalendar (tasks only)
  • Improved "Paste" action
  • (now it's possible to paste multiple text lines as single task)
  • RSS Feed Viewer:
  • Removed unused Back and Stop buttons
  • Added Ctrl+L keyboard shortcut for the "Complete Story" button
  • UI cleanup
  • Improved footer printing
  • Fixed: Do not display old (duplicated) articles as new
  • Changed default color of unread RSS articles
  • Misc.:
  • Updated Polish translation
  • Splash Screen: Added progress bar
  • Added PAD file support
  • Better fixed-width font in Console and in Script Editor
  • Document search: Show spaces as "" in "Text not found" message
  • OpenSearch plugins: Fixed small icon in popup menu
  • Linux launchers: Handle space characters in command line options
  • Fixed wrong tab icon on mouse exit
  • Fixed: Close splash screen window on main window show
  • + small UI improvements and bug fixes
  • Plugin Installer:
  • Auto set as default newly installed Look And Feel
  • Auto enable previously disabled plugin after reinstallation
  • Console:
  • NEW: Added "history" command
  • Press Up/Down arrow to bring previous/next command
  • Added color and icon support

New in Makagiga 3.8.4 (May 3, 2010)

  • Misc.:
  • Delete Private Data: Improved confirmation dialog for
  • "Delete previous document versions"
  • Show alternate keyboard shortcut (e.g. Ctrl+Y and Ctrl+Shift+Z)
  • in tool bar button tool tip
  • Updated Polish translation
  • Console: Removed "Todo.newTaskPanelPosition"
  • and "Todo.priorityPrimaryColor" options
  • UI: New configuration for "OK/Cancel" buttons layout
  • (menu -> Tools -> Settings -> Advanced -> Look And Feel)
  • Changed default cache policy for downloaded HTML images
  • (this will improve performance and bandwidth usage
  • in RSS viewer and in the internal HTML browser)
  • Image Editor: Improved Effects/Filters window
  • Todo List: Fixed Tab key navigation in "Add" panel
  • UI: Fixed link foreground color in dark look and feel themes
  • Load RSS archive on startup (offline)
  • Show tagged RSS articles in "Tags" menu
  • Fixed: Get More Plugins: Stop network activity on dialog close
  • Fix for bug #2988499 - error on LINUX XFCE
  • Fixed background and text color in script editor
  • Fix for bug #2980182 - Makagiga does not see javaw.exe on 64 bit windows
  • Plugins:
  • New File dialog: Added "Get More Plugins" button
  • Added "Get more plugins" button for Notepad Designer panel and Script editor
  • Tags Menu:
  • Removed "Items without Tags" submenu
  • Separate "System tags" submenu from user tags
  • Show tagged RSS articles

New in Makagiga 3.8.3 (Mar 30, 2010)

  • RSS Reader:
  • NEW: Feed Properties: Added convenient "Global Settings" button
  • Show number of new/unread articles for each feed
  • Removed "Mark As Read/Unread" menu
  • Removed "New Articles" folder
  • Fixed: Handle link addresses with malformed URI
  • RSS Filters: Added "Copy" button
  • RSS Filters: Improved user interface
  • Auto close notification window on tab open
  • Todo List:
  • Show "Priority" column by default
  • Show "warning" icon for High and Very High priority
  • Added export to HTML 5; fixed export to XHTML
  • Task Summary panel:
  • Improved print button
  • Improved user interface
  • Fixed: Do not automatically expand/collapse tree items
  • Show number of items

New in Makagiga 3.8.2 (Mar 8, 2010)

  • Widgets:
  • NEW: "To-Do" widget is now included in the base Makagiga package
  • RSS Viewer:
  • NEW: RSS Filters
  • RSS Filters
  • NEW: Added "Author" column (wide list view);
  • removed "Show the author of each article" option
  • Notepad:
  • (Re-)added Ctrl+Shift+H keyboard shortcut for "HTML Preview"
  • Image Editor:
  • NEW: Added "Marble" filter
  • Misc:
  • Better support for Sea Glass Look And Feel
  • File|History menu moved to the "Tab/Widget List" button (see main tool bar)
  • File|Quick Open menu item moved to the "Find Files" panel
  • (click the "+" button or press Ctrl+O)
  • Accessibility: Use "radio button" instead of bold font
  • Properties Bar: Added "Color" button
  • Color Button
  • Internet Search: Press Alt+Down to change search engine
  • Fixed small memory leaks
  • Updated Polish translation
  • Updated Oxygen Icon Theme
  • Minor improvements in the "Summary" panel
  • Color Chooser: Improved "HTML" tab
  • Console: Removed "UI.decorated" option
  • Mac OS X: Fixed some keyboard shortcuts
  • Mac OS X: Removed "This operating system (...) is not fully supported" message
  • + small UI improvements and bug fixes
  • Source:
  • Fixed "ant buildrpm builddeb" on Ubuntu Karmic
  • Removed obsolete/experimental Arch package builder

New in Makagiga 3.8.1 (Dec 29, 2009)

  • RSS Reader:
  • NEW: Wide list view: Added "Open" column
  • Collapse folder with articles on tab close
  • Fixed: Do not print "FileNotFoundException" error message
  • if favicon is not available
  • Fixed Ctrl+T ("Tabs" menu)
  • and Ctrl+Shift+T ("History" menu) keyboard shortcuts
  • Fixed "entity" errors in some RSS XMLs
  • Notepad:
  • New "HTML Preview" panel (see Designer)
  • HTML Preview: Cache downloaded images
  • Todo List:
  • Fixed location of the "statistics" tool tip popup
  • Improved perfomance in GTK+ Look And Feel
  • Image Viewer:
  • Improved zoom in/out
  • Added Ctrl+Insert (Copy) and Shift+Insert (Paste) keyboard shortcuts
  • Misc.:
  • Tree: Better small icons in "location bar"
  • Console: debug: Show "line.separator" value as "
  • " and " "
  • UI: Smaller and less distracting color chooser button
  • UI: Main tool bar is now always visible
  • UI: Removed View|Go To menu
  • (see Help or press Shift+F1 to display old keyboard shortcuts)
  • Summary: Allow node collapse
  • Summary: Do not print headers for empty task list
  • Main Tool Bar: Added "Tab/Widget List" button
  • Calendar: Show "blue" border for selected day
  • Updated Polish translation
  • Console: "debug" command: print logs and swing-timer info
  • Applet Support: Improved status bar implementation
  • Optimization: Disable file-cache for small icons
  • UI: Disabled background trasnsparency for cell tips
  • UI: Fixed layout in "Designer" panel
  • File Import: Create backup of the previous/existing file
  • Automatic plugin update after Makagiga upgrade
  • UI: Show application name in the notification popup title
  • Improved tag editor
  • NEW: Color Chooser: Added Undo/Redo buttons
  • Use "Ki", "Mi", and "Gi" symbols in size format
  • (example: 5,5 MiB instead of 5,5 MB)
  • Fixed "Find Files" plugin
  • Updated Oxygen Icon Theme
  • UI: Better icons and text in "clear" actions
  • Removed deprecated "boot.jar" file (use makagiga.jar instead)
  • Fixed color chooser tool tips
  • Fixed bugs discovered via FindBugs(tm)
  • Password Dialog: Show minimum required password length
  • Notification window: Disable "Settings" menu item if feature is not supported
  • GTK+ Look And Feel is now available again. It's not used by default.
  • However, you can change it via Tools -> Settings -> Look And Feel
  • Improved "Designer" button text
  • Print Preview: Fixed memory leaks
  • Fixed image printing
  • System summary (About|System tab):
  • faster display
  • include "Toolkit" info
  • do not append "[]" if build info is empty