Timeline View
The highlight in this release is the new timeline view. Just as the map view shows all places on a two-dimensional map, the timeline shows all events on a one-dimensional time axis. You can zoom out and see the distribution (density) of events over the course of centuries, or zoom in to individual years, months and days to see details of specific events.
This feature becomes particularly useful in combination with the person and place filter: use it to only show events that happened at a given place, or only events related to a specific person.
Every event page now also has a "show in timeline" button that opens the timeline around that date.
Improved Object Picker Dialog
Many dialogs in Gramps Web allow selecting specific objects, like people, places, or events. So far, these dialogs had a search field and displayed the most recently changed objects of the given type by default.
In this release, this dialog has become much more powerful: whenever you select an object, you can now easily switch between most recently changed objects, most recently browsed objects, bookmarks, or search. This should make it much faster to find the object you're looking for.
Main Menu Improvements
With the new timeline view in this release as well as the tag manager and notification views added recently, the main menu was getting unwieldy. To improve the situation, this release makes a couple of changes.
- The tag manager has moved to the recently reorganized admin settings page, so it doesn't have a main menu entry anymore.
- The menu items are more compact, so they take less vertical space
- The order has changed to group similar menu items together
- The AI assistant's menu item was renamed from "Chat" to "Assistant" to make it clearer and the icon was changed from a speech bubble to an AI sparkle
AI Assistant Improvements
Apart from the backend improvements to the AI Assistant in Gramps Web API v3.14, also the interface has seen some smaller improvements. Especially, it now fully supports displaying Markdown formatted AI responses, such as bullet lists and ordered lists, boldface, and italics.
Other Improvements
- Places with GPS coordinates now have an "Open in map" button that opens the place in the big map view
- A bug with formatting of notes containing emoji was fixed (#1187)
- An issue leading to an empty page after an app update was resolved
Full Changelog: v26.5.2...v26.5.3