This is new release of Kupfer, slightly refactored, optimized and updated.

Changes

• New features:

  • For grouping leaves (like hosts, contacts) add "copy to clipboard" action for each slot (email, adress, etc). Close: #169
  • After launch some action for leave next time this action get some bonus that make it higher on the list. Also, this action get (smaller) bonus for each same type of leaves.
  • URL-s can be opened with selected application ("Open with..." action)
  • User can configure preferred text editor; list is loaded from application registry.
  • List of terminals is loaded from application registry (applications with "terminal" tag). Some terminals are still preconfigured.
  • In plugins settings user can choose files and directories by appropriate dialog instead of type path manually.
  • Kupfer can more frequent refresh items in background and cache result; this make searching and browsing faster.
  • If more than one action have the same accelerator pressing key navigate between them; previously first action was activated.
  • Hosts and services have additional aliases "service:hostname"; this allow user to fast find items by entering e.g. "sshmyserverhostname".
  • Add text representation to leaves representing songs (rhythmbox and audacious plugins) and leaves representing services; user can i.e. copy it to clipboard or use whenever text is acceptable.

• Fix:

  • Make Kupfer window rounded again. Close: #83
  • After repoen Kupfer window, if current leaf has qf_id (leaf like selected dir, file, etc), update this leaf (research) and show current value. Close: #172
  • Fix error on group merge when source was updated in background.
  • Fix "mark as default" action broken in beta1. Close: #170
  • Add some missing icons (stock_person, stock_mail)
  • Strip whitespaces from url-s when calling "show url"
  • Do not decorate leaves in third panel as there is no way to "enter" to it.
  • If actions have the same name, make it unique by adding plugin name; previously module name was added.
  • Improve detecting URLs, files path, and emails addresses in text.
  • Fix not working "select clipboard text" accelerator.
  • Fix presenting first line from Text leaves: now really show first line.
  • Browser track history of selected leaves and allow return to parent leaf instead of top of list.
  • Make sure that file opened in plugins are closed after load.

• Plugins:

  • New:

    • Aria2: download files be remote aria2 instance.
    • Librewolf: load bookmarks from Librewolf web browser
    • NetworkManager: manage network connections
    • Screenshot: take desktop screenshot using 'scrot' or 'flamegraph'.
    • Show QRCode plugin: generate qrcodes from text.
    • Textutils: various tools that convert, format and generate text content (i.e. generate random strings, convert case, encode base64,
      format json and xml).
    • Tmux: support tmux session and tmuxp workplaces.
    • Tracker3: full-text search in Tracker 3 application.
    • Vim: recent files opened in vim and quick access to configured VimWikis.
    • Zoxide: load most used directories from zoxide database.

  • Updated:

    • Application:

      • Add additional aliases do application: executable name and original (English) name.
      • New action "Open With...": open file with one of application that support given file type.
      • New action "Launch here": start application in selected folder.
      • User can enable loading additional application aliases. This make possible to select application by application comment, keywords or generic name but may have impact on overall performance.

    • Apt: add new actions: "Search for file in packages..." and "Browse packages.debian.org".

    • Archive manager: user can select 7zip (7z or 7za) to use instead of file-roller.

    • Audacious: use D-Bus for interaction with audacious.

    • Chromium: monitor and load changes in bookmarks.

    • Clipboard: detect URLs and files path in clipboard items and selected text.

    • Dictionary: add support for GoldenDict

    • Favorites: allow user to add to favorite only leaves than can be added.

    • File actions: new action "Edit file content" that open configured text editor

    • Image: detect images files by mime type, not by extension.

    • Libvirt: monitor state of virtual machines; fix icons

    • Rhythmbox: fix errors when no mpris module available.

    • Session gnome, Session lxqt, Session xfce: user must confirm "logout" and "shutdown" actions

    • Session xfce: load favorite applications defined in Whisker Menu.

    • Show Text: bring back "Large Type" action. Close: 91

    • Ssh_hosts:

      • Fix loading Match rules from ssh config file.
      • Fix monitoring for configuration changes.
      • Load and use host name from ssh .config file
      • Update icons

    • Textfiles:

      • New action "Copy content" (with "C" accelerator): copy content of text file to clipboard
      • "Write To" action allow user to enter destination file name.
      • Fix selecting destination directory
      • Fix encoding on write files

    • Thunar: add "Open Trash" action

    • URL Actions: check response status code (accept only 2xx); if there is not exact filename in response or url, try to guess filename with extension by url and content type.

    • Web Search: allow user to define custom search engines by provide appropriate URLs.

    • Volumes:

      • New "Mount" action
      • Separate "Eject" and "Unmount" action.

    • Wikipedia:

      • User can configure more than one language for Wikipedia search; action "Search in Wikipedia" allow user to select Wikipedia language.
      • Add "S" accelerator for "Search in Wikipedia" action.

    • Windows: better detection of Kupfer windows.

    • some plugins now report error (import error) when required command or application is missing in system.

• Dev:

  • BREAKING: refactor & modernize code; Python 3.9+ is now required.

  • BREAKING: reorganise and rename some modules, functions. Split long files into smaller.

  • BREAKING: there is no backward compatibility with old/external plugins.

  • Simplify, optimize code; remove legacy and duplicated code; drop unnecessary list creation (use iterators whenever possible); remove redundant caching. This improve performance and memory usage.

  • Add types to most core objects.

  • When run in "debug" mode, when available, use typeguard for checking types. This may slowdown Kupfer.

  • Add pyproject.toml file.

  • Refactor ui: remove deprecated components, fix layout.

  • Upgrade WAF v 2.0.25; fix & update wscript files.

  • Add icons.get_gicon_from_file: quick load gicon from file.

  • Add kupfer.support.validators with some useful functions (validate URLs, etc).

  • Add some debugging tools to debug.py (ic, etc).

  • FileLeaf accept Path object.

  • FilesystemWatchMixin provide function to monitor single files.

  • Add some caching for icons (esp. ComposedIcons)

  • Add simpler caches in kupfer.support.datatools and some statistics to existing. Add get_or_insert method to LruCache.

  • Plugin preferences may use list of string (type list) and helpers (select directory, file). For int-type preferences can be set min and max value. See zoxide, firefox plugins for example use.

  • Dialog like preferences are destroyed on close.

  • Action may reload leaves list in browser as result of execute. See Volumes plugin and "Mount" action.

  • Refresh action do not duplicate sources in browser.

  • Sources can define minimal interval between background load data (source_scan_interval). mark_as_default method have new parameter postpone (default False); when true, mark source to update in next rescan campaign but not clear cache.

  • Purge mnemonics remove first oldest entries.

  • Plugins can register "favorite" items. See Session XFCE plugin.

  • AsyncFileResult wait limited time for file result.

  • Add some tests.

  • Add new dbus method - FindObject.

  • Cache KupferObject repr value

  • Colors in console output.

• Update translation: pl