skyjake/lagrange v1.3.0

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Localization

• Added the first set of UI translations: Chinese (Simplified, Traditional), Finnish, Russian, and Spanish. Many thanks to the translators!
• Added page content translation using a LibreTranslate instance running on xlt.skyjake.fi. This is somewhat experimental and may occasionally mess up Gemtext markup. Expect long pages to be quite slow to translate (more than a minute).

Resources

• Added Noto Sans CJK (Simplified Chinese) font.
• Added Noto Sans Arabic font. Note that right-to-left/bidirectional text rendering is not implemented yet.
• Added "about:about" that lists all the available "about:" pages.

Browsing

• Alt text is shown when hovering over a preformatted block.
• Clicking on a preformatted block collapses it, leaving only the alt text.
• Added option to collapse all preformatted blocks on page load.
• A server certificate can also be verified by Certificate Authorities. When "CA file" and/or "CA path" are set in Preferences, CA verification will mark a certificate as trusted.
• Relaxed TOFU certificate checking when it comes to domain names: domain.tld in a certificate is implicitly considered to also mean *.domain.tld.
• Fixed handling of IDNs when the user sets a server certificate as trusted via the UI.
• Fixed handling of unknown URI schemes. Previously they were forcefully converted to absolute URIs, breaking them.

Page content and rendering

• Color adjustments to the "Colorful Dark", "Colorful Light", and "Gray" themes. "Gray" looks different in dark and light UI modes.
• Spacing of bullet lists vs. link lists is more consistent.
• Links are shown in bold, and tinted with the page theme color for more coherent appearance.
• Custom link icons: Gemini links whose destination is on the same domain use as icon the Emoji or other pictograph at the start of the link label. (For example, see Astrobotany menus.)
• Added option to wrap lines in plain text files. This is on by default because there is no horizontal scrolling for plain text.
• Large images are downscaled to an appropriate size for presentation.
• Improved font glyph caching to reduce stuttering during scrolling. All required glyphs are cached after a page load finishes. This allows more efficient copying of glyphs as the operations can be batched.
• Larger content buffers for scrolling, reducing need to redraw content.
• Gopher: Handling the 'h' line type.
• Fixed minor issues with word wrapping.
• Fixed minor blending artifacts with the current heading shown on the right side of the page.

User interface

• Improved event handling to support touch screens on any platform (if supported by SDL).
• UI scaling factor is applied immediately when closing Preferences. Restarting is no longer necessary.
• Window rescaled automatically when moving it to a display with a different DPI.
• Added unread feed entry count to the sidebar.
• Added a context menu for toggling sidebars. The menu appears when right-clicking on the navbar or on the sidebar tab buttons.
• Double/triple click selection modes. Double click and drag will select by word, triple click by paragraph.
• Popup menus have icons for items to make it faster to find the item you're looking for.
• Soft shadows for popup menus.
• Scrollbars fade away on macOS/iOS and dim on other platforms.
• Reload button moved into the URL field.
• Narrow URL input fields will not display the default "gemini" scheme.
• Domain name is highlighted in URL fields.
• Added a cut/copy/paste context menu to input fields.
• Added an "Import..." button to the empty Identities sidebar.
• Preferences dialog was partially reorganized for clarity.
• Tabs in Preferences look the same as tabs in the sidebar.
• Cleaner appearance for unread feed items in the sidebar.
• Dialog buttons show the corresponding shortcut key.
• Fixed background activity indicators overlapping each other.
• Fixed glitches when widgets extend beyond the left edge of the window.
• Fixed use of plurals in UI strings, enabling support for three or more plural forms.

Keybindings

• Default page scroll keybindings changed: PageUp/Down scroll a whole page, and Space/Shift+Space scrolls half a page. If you're changed these bindings, note that they will be reset to defaults.
• Added keybinding for subscribing to a page.
• Keyboard modifiers can be remapped using the modmap.txt configuration file.
• Caps Lock can be used as a modifier key.
• Internet hot keys (if present on a keyboard) can be used to navigate back/forward and reload the page.

Command line use

• Added conventional --help, --version options.
• A previously started instance can be controlled with command line options.
• --list-tab-urls prints a list of the currently open URLs in the running instance.

Bug fixes

• Only one instance of Lagrange is allowed to run per user directory. This prevents instances from overwriting each other's data.
• Fixed use of multiple search terms for quick lookup.
• Fixed handling of multiple feeds having an entry with the same URL.
• Fixed percent-decoding of URLs on the command line and coming in via system URL handlers.

NOTE: When compiling from source, get the lagrange-1.3.0.tar.gz tarball because it contains all the required source files. The "Source Code (ZIP/TAR.GZ)" items below are generated by Gitea and contain only this repository (the_Foundation is required as well).

The Intel Mac binaries require macOS 10.13 or later, and the Apple Silicon binaries require macOS 11.0 or later.

The Linux AppImage has been built on Ubuntu 18.04.

The Windows binaries require 64-bit Windows 7 or later. The portable ZIP archive can be extracted and run as-is — user files will be stored under the "userdata" subdirectory.