Parcellite

Inactivity

If you haven’t noticed, there has been a period of inactivity with development. This is mostly due to the amount of time I spend in other areas of my life such as work, girlfriend, family, etc. and also somewhat do to lack of interest. I do plan to sit down and iron out some bugs that are way past due, but I don’t plan to significantly develop Parcellite much further than its current state. There will be another project that I plan to work on soon and I hope the community will embrace it like they did Parcellite.

I appreciate the free software community’s support, especially those of you who have submitted patches and translations. Thank you again.

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Version 0.9.1 Released (Finally)

…And here’s the ChangeLog:

New
+ Several new translations.
+ Print primary contents command line option.
+ Clipboard and primary synchronization (by Wolfgang Schnerring).

Changes
+ Updated translations.
+ Eliminated redundant disk activity.
+ Control-click patch for actions menu.
+ Selected items are bumped to the top of the history.
+ Improved (once again) new clipboard/primary contents handling.
+ Piping clipboard contents no longer truncates new line character.
+ New Edit Clipboard dialog. Old dialog had strange behavior under different window managers.

Download it!

P. S. - Coments have been re-enabled from this post on.

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Memory Leak

There was a memory leak in the development version of Parcellite. Overlooking a single line of code is all it takes for your program to chomp at your memory like a hungry puppy. The following line fixes it:

g_free(element->data);

Fix has been commited. Please update your working copies pulled from subversion and recompile. Also, I will be fixing some bugs with the Edit Clipboard window which has some weird behavior in different window managers. Soon after that another release will be made.

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Comments

I’ve disabled comments because Akismet does not work on SourceForge and I don’t have time to look through 50+ comments to look for valid ones to approve. Please use the project tracker on SourceForge for bug reports, feature requests and patches. You can submit translations as a patch on the tracker or mail them directly to me (my email is in the About window).

Thanks.

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Clipboard Synchronization

Copy and Primary synchronization is now available in the svn thanks to Wolfgang Schnerring. Upstream development is not dead, only a little distracted

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Changes in SVN

The latest since 0.9…

• Does not truncate new line on contents piped in from a terminal.
• Deletes duplicate item before appending new item.
• Fix for control-click on some machines.
• Simplified chinese, portuguese and polish translations.
• Updated german translation.

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Updating to 0.9

There were changes done to the internal workings of the config file generation and parsing since 0.8. What this means is that some of your preferences may turn on or off when you upgrade, this is especially true for the “Use Copy” option. “Use Copy” is turned on by default in 0.9, but because of some variable name changes I did to improve readability in the code, it will turn off when you upgrade. Just remember to turn it back on

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Version 0.9 Released

Finally! The wait is over. Development has been slow, but it has not stopped. I will likely release smaller maintanence releases to add a number of smaller features and translation updates to this version before the big one point zero. Here is the ChangeLog for this release:

v0.9   Thursday, November 20 2008

New
+ Confirm clear option.
+ Parcellite menu hotkey.
+ Translated .desktop files.
+ Support for managing x-selection (primary).
+ Hungarian and turkish translation (disabled until tr.po is updated).
+ Prevent empty clipboard. Clipboard/Primary contents are backed up and recovered if they ever become NULL.

Changes
+ Fixed/updated daemon mode.
+ Changed preferences dialog.
+ Changed actions preferences to use GtkTreeView’s built in editing mode.
+ Fixed bug with icon showing up in –no-icon mode when you execute an action.
+ Fixed parcellite-startup.desktop to include “Type=Application” to prevent desktop-file-validate from failing.

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Translations

If you would like to submit a new translation or simply revise an existing one, please send the attached .po file to xyhthyx at gmail.com. Thanks everybody.

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Latest Changes

X-Selection (also known as mouse selection or PRIMARY) has made its way into subversion. The regular clipboard and x-selection work concurrently, you can enable or disable any at will. The history menu will mark the item currently in x-selection in italics if it is not the same as your clipboard contents.

In addition, Parcellite now checks the history to check if a newly copied item is already in history. I will later make it so if it is already in history it will get bumped up as the newest item and its older copies be deleted.

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