2018-11-21 meld 3.19.1

Features:

• Support comparing remote files (Kai Willadsen; initial work by Chris Mayo)
  

• Significantly improve folder comparison performance when comparing large
  trees (Hugo Sena Ribeiro)
  

• Improve folder comparison IO and memory use (Hugo Sena Ribeiro)
  

• Add recursive collapse/expand actions to folder comparisons (Jesus Arroyo)
  

• Add OARS metadata for software management (Nick Richards)
  

• Support file drag-and-drop directly on to textviews (Kai Willadsen)
  

• Refresh the application icon and add a processing pipeline (Kai Willadsen)

• Windows build improvements:

  • Build using msys2 on GNOME Gitlab infrastructure and update to using
    current GTK+ (Vasily Galkin)
    
  • Add simple zip-based Windows build output to pipeline (Vasily Galkin)
    
  • Improve Windows logging behaviour (Vasily Galkin)
    
  • Help launching now works (Vasily Galkin)
    
  • Shortcuts now work in non-English keyboard layouts (via GTK+)
    
  • Windows paths are shortened correctly (Kai Willadsen)
    

Fixes:

• Next/Previous Change actions correctly account for text filters (Heikki
  Ketoharju)
  
• Fix blank line ignoring in folder comparisons (Hugo Sena Ribeiro)
  
• Miscellaneous performance improvements (Hugo Sena Ribeiro)
  
• Fix initial focus pane for two-pane comparison (Kai Willadsen)
  
• Handle encoding failures on file load (Kai Willadsen)
  
• Fix surrogate problems in on-save encoding check (Kai Willadsen)
  
• Fix display of some encoding errors in folder comparisons (Kai Willadsen)
  
• Fix Git unpushed commit check for ambiguous filenames (Kai Willadsen)
  
• Fix committing a folder in Git (Kai Willadsen)
  
• Show errors for critical unhandled application failures, such as failed
  saves (Kai Willadsen)
  
• Work around GTK+ shortcut activation issues; see GNOME/gtk#140 (Kai
  Willadsen)
  
• Update Up/Down/Delete shortcuts to support numpad (Kai Willadsen)
  
• Fix copy-paste of GtkSourceView-highlighted text into Meld (Kai Willadsen)
  
• Don't open additional blank comparison tabs when using the --diff CLI
  argument (Kai Willadsen)
  
• Fix installation on Mint (Kai Willadsen)
  

Internal changes:

• File comparisons and CLI argument handling now use Gio.File and support
  URIs (Kai Willadsen; initial work by Chris Mayo)
  

• Many Python 3 deprecation cleanups (Claude Paroz)
  

• Rename icon/desktop/appdata for consistency with appid (Mathieu Bridon)
  

• Flatpak build updates (Mathieu Bridon, Kai Willadsen)
  

• Make XDG application ID match other application IDs (Kai Willadsen)
  

• Multiple pygobject/GTK+ deprecation cleanups (Kai Willadsen)
  

• Python 3.7 support (Kai Willadsen)
  

• PEP8 and style compliance (Jesus Arroyo, Stefan Erichsen)

• Bugs fixed: 152, 175, 177, 179, 193, 196, 197, 197, 203, 217, 225, 233,
  235, 239

Translations:

• Alan Mortensen (da)
  
• Anders Jonsson (sv)
  
• Claude Paroz (fr)
  
• Daniel Mustieles (es)
  
• Emin Tufan Çetin (tr)
  
• Jiri Grönroos (fi)
  
• Kukuh Syafaat (id)
  
• Marek Černocký (cs)
  
• Mario Blättermann (de)
  
• Matej Urbančič (sl)
  
• Mathieu Bridon ()
  
• Milo Casagrande (it)
  
• Piotr Drąg (pl)
  
• Rafael Fontenelle (pt_BR)
  
• Reginaldo Izidório (pt_BR)
  
• Yi-Jyun Pan (zh_TW)