What's new in Q7Z 0.9.1
Jan 10, 2011
- Added the ability to toggle the Auto-Quit state
- Enhanced the information notification techniques
- Improvements were made to the update checking code
- Made several minor changes to the code structure
New in Q7Z 0.9.0 (Dec 16, 2010)
- Upgraded the source code for Python v3 support
- Custom volume sizes can be specified and saved
- Added MRU lists to text fields for convenience
- Contents of MRU lists can be cleared if desired
- Moved 'Name' fields to add room for 'Dir' fields
- The dialog box sizes are now fully adjustable
- Dialog widgets are now auto-spaced for clarity
- The main form size is remembered between sessions
- The Makefile enforces building before installing
- Made some structural improvements to the Makefile
- Added basic build and installation instructions
- Deprecated distribution-specific build scripts
- Improved the clarity of the licensing conditions
- Added a link to each license in the 'Help' menu
- Made several minor changes to the code structure
New in Q7Z 0.8.0 (Apr 23, 2009)
- All:
- Main dialog: redesigned to reduce clutter
- Switches option: to add custom command-line arguments
- Icons: borrowed from the Oxygen theme when possible
- Menu entries: added 'Verbose' and 'Review' for debugging
- Verbose mode: now more consistently implemented
- Tarball option: removed to simplify the execution code
- Code structure: several minor changes
- Linux:
- Options files: to choose preferred external apps
- Autopackage script: is now available for all distributions
- Help menu: added a link to the Autopackage website
- XZ format: is now also available for compression
- KDE4 Service Menus: now feature the proper separators again
- GNU Tar: is now used to create BZip2 and GZip archives
- Permissions: are now preserved when extracting archives
- Destination folder: is now created before archiving
- Python processes: now use the new 'subprocess' module
New in Q7Z 0.7.5 (Dec 4, 2008)
- Paths: Now looks beneath "~/.config/" for 'Lists' and 'Profiles'
- KDE config script: now used to find user paths
- Makefile: now checks for existence of dependencies
- Context menu: initial integration in Gnome and Xfce
- Documentation: now available in HTML thanks to Zim
- KDE 4: improved support for Dolphin and Konqueror
- KDE 3: is no longer officially supported
- Write access: to source dir for packaged installations
- Help menu: added a link to the Zim website
- Extraction: UDF, XAR, LZMA and DMG/HFS archives are now recognised
- Cron jobs: worked around new Qt 4.4 event-loop limitation
- Licensing: Now using the GNU General Public License v3
- Dependencies raised: due to bugs below Qt 4.4.1 and PyQt 4.4.3
- Recommendation: everyone should switch to Arch Linux