huynhsontung/Screenbox v0.18.0

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What's Changed

This release is all about playlists and polish. We've introduced powerful new playlist management features, improved privacy controls, and refined the user experience with smoother animations, and under-the-hood optimizations. Plus, we've squashed bugs and streamlined the codebase for future updates.

New Features

• feat: playlist management support by @huynhsontung in #514
• feat: add settings privacy section by @United600 in #700
• feat: add Open With context menu for media files by @Copilot in #754
• feat: hide redundant caption for videos when it only adds file extension by @Copilot in #782
• feat: add success notifications for playlist create, rename, and delete by @Copilot in #798
• feat: add current play queue to a new or existing playlist by @huynhsontung in #803
• feat: handle Open with command on cached library item by @huynhsontung in #810

Bug Fixes

• fix: Delay playlist parsing until LibVLC is initialized by @Copilot in #745
• fix: subtitle auto-loading regression from PR #676 by @Copilot in #746
• fix: combobox popup position by @United600 in #752
• fix: RTL repeat glyph directionality by @United600 in #769
• fix: forward frame stepping position sync by @United600 in #795
• fix: media returned without media info when restoring from cache by @huynhsontung in #805

Localization

• l10n: Crowdin updates by @huynhsontung in #726
• l10n: Crowdin updates by @huynhsontung in #811
• fix(l10n): minor grammar fix for some privacy-related strings by @huynhsontung in #812

User Experience

• style: add titlebar control by @United600 in #784
• style: adjust player page animation offsets and transitions by @United600 in #796
• style: minor playlist dialogs tweaks by @United600 in #800
• style: improve playlist button design in the play queue selection bar by @United600 in #804
• style: fix playlist page header text overlap by @United600 in #809

Other Improvements

• chore: migrates Newtonsoft.Json to System.Text.Json by @United600 in #669
• chore: minor clean up to NavigationView by @United600 in #723
• chore: update keyboard accelerator helper constants documentation by @United600 in #737
• chore: add lottie generation script by @United600 in #776
• chore: add powershell script to generate custom icons fonts by @United600 in #779
• chore: bump C# language version and copyright year by @United600 in #785
• chore: replace command bar extension with control by @United600 in #797
• refactor: player controls playback and subtitle keyboard accelerator events by @United600 in #724
• refactor: move all behaviors to a new Behaviors namespace and folder by @United600 in #731
• refactor: player page keyboard accelerator events by @United600 in #733
• refactor: LibVlcService into stateless IPlayerService with PlayerContext by @Copilot in #755
• refactor: decouple casting from VLC via stateless CastService and CastContext by @Copilot in #760
• refactor: make LibraryService stateless via LibraryContext and LibraryController by @Copilot in #761
• refactor: ResourceNameToResourceString converter by @United600 in #762
• refactor: add playback rate message by @United600 in #775
• refactor: NavigationViewEx property change logic and simplify control by @United600 in #780
• refactor: ThicknessFilterKinds location and improves converter XML documentation by @United600 in #781
• refactor: replace view-layer error forwarding with typed failure messages from ViewModels by @Copilot in #794
• refactor: language model and remove layout direction converter by @United600 in #801
• refactor: control visibility logic for open popups by @United600 in #802
• ci: Add automated Winget package submission workflow by @Copilot in #747
• ci: Change release type from 'published' to 'released' by @drshtmstry in #750
• ci(copilot): Update Copilot setup to use Windows host by @huynhsontung in #789

New Contributors

• @drshtmstry made their first contribution in #750

Full Changelog: v0.17.0...v0.18.0