GNOME Documents Changelog

What's new in GNOME Documents 3.34.0 Beta

Aug 19, 2019
  • Translation updates:
  • Basque
  • BokmÃ¥l, Norwegian
  • Catalan
  • Chinese (China)
  • Croatian
  • Danish
  • French
  • Icelandic
  • Karbi

New in GNOME Documents 3.32.0 (Mar 19, 2019)

  • Documents and Books are now separate apps
  • New icon
  • Replaced app menu with primary menu
  • Bugs fixed:
  • #11 Documents hangs if any of the XDG_*_DIR vars are not defined
  • #12 Doesn't show any documents when started through search provider
  • #24 Present checkbox doesn't do anything
  • Translation updates:
  • Afrikaans
  • Catalan
  • Chinese (Taiwan)
  • Czech
  • Danish
  • Dutch
  • Esperanto
  • Finnish
  • French
  • Friulian
  • Galician
  • German
  • Greek, Modern (1453-)
  • Hungarian
  • Indonesian
  • Italian
  • Japanese
  • Kazakh
  • Korean
  • Latvian
  • Lithuanian
  • Malayalam
  • Persian
  • Polish
  • Portuguese (Brazil)
  • Romanian
  • Russian
  • Serbian

New in GNOME Documents 3.32.0 Beta (Feb 13, 2019)

  • Updated menus for 3.32 recommendations
  • Bugs fixed:
  • #11 Documents/Books hang if any of the XDG_*_DIR vars are not defined
  • #12 Doesn't show any documents when started through search provider
  • #21 Flatpak builds broken due to meson
  • #30 Night/black mode should also invert color of black/white paper pages
  • Translation updates:
  • Greek
  • Spanish
  • Swedish
  • zh_TW

New in GNOME Documents 3.30.1 (Jan 21, 2019)

  • allow libgdprivate-1.0.so to find libgd (Special thanks to Jan Tojnar)
  • search: be more careful when constructing a GFile
  • Update Basque translation (Iñaki Larrañaga Murgoitio)
  • Update Esperanto translation (Carmen Bianca BAKKER)
  • flatpak: Tell Tracker not to use a media extractor (Mathieu Bridon)
  • build: Update to latest libgd
  • flatpak: Build liboauth against NSS (Jordan Petridis)
  • Update dependencies of flatpak to use meson (Thomas Coldrick)
  • build: Ensure that the Git submodules are kept updated
  • build: Remove unused variable

New in GNOME Documents 3.30.0 (Sep 12, 2018)

  • Update the Git submodule URL after GitLab migration (Abderrahim Kitouni)
  • Remove usage of conditional catch statements (Tim Lunn)
  • Don't crash when selecting a local collection
  • Translation updates

New in GNOME Documents 3.30.0 Beta 2 (Aug 17, 2018)

  • Remove Autotools and various Meson improvements (Iñigo Martínez)
  • Add OARS metadata (Nick Richards)
  • Initialize the getting started PDF only when presenting a UI, and before any SPARQL has been submitted
  • Be nice to the garbage collector during shutdown

New in GNOME Documents 3.28.2 (Aug 17, 2018)

  • Insert the getting started PDF only when showing a window
  • Be nice to the garbage collector during shutdown

New in GNOME Documents 3.28.0 (Mar 19, 2018)

  • Make the Meson build require libgepub-0.6 (Iñigo Martínez)
  • Translation updates

New in GNOME Documents 3.28.0 RC (Mar 14, 2018)

  • Port to Meson

New in GNOME Documents 3.26.2 (Feb 14, 2018)

  • Use 'var' for symbols that are exported
  • Use the standard dialect of String.prototype.replace
  • Explicitly specify the Gepub API version
  • Translation updates

New in GNOME Documents 3.26.1 (Oct 25, 2017)

  • Translation updates.

New in GNOME Documents 3.26.0 (Sep 18, 2017)

  • Translation updates.

New in GNOME Documents 3.26 Beta 2 (Sep 7, 2017)

  • Modernize the Autotools build and move away from Intltool
  • Translation updates

New in GNOME Documents 3.24.3 (Jul 23, 2017)

  • Enable printing only for documents that support it
  • Avoid CRITICALs if a primary instance is already present

New in GNOME Documents 3.25.4 (Jul 23, 2017)

  • Use Tracker 2.0
  • Translation updates

New in GNOME Documents 3.25.3 (Jun 24, 2017)

  • Show more info in epub preview, like number of chapters (Daniel Garcia)
  • Restore the accelerators for going back
  • Exit selection mode only after printing has begun
  • Use GtkRevealers for faders instead of Tweener
  • Enable printing only for documents that support it
  • Avoid CRITICALs if a primary instance is already present
  • Translation updates

New in GNOME Documents 3.24.2 (May 11, 2017)

  • Unbreak previews of LOKDocView-supported documents from OneDrive
  • Unreak caching of LOKDocView-supported documents from ownCloud
  • Support previews of encrypted PDFs from Google
  • Pass the right number of arguments to LOKDocView.View.new
  • Translation updates

New in GNOME Documents 3.24.1 (Apr 29, 2017)

  • Use LOKDocView for pre-OOXML MS Office formats (Pranav Kant)
  • Unbreak opening in external application
  • Fix regression that prevented comics from being previewed
  • Make sure that load jobs are cancelled
  • Fix double menus in fullscreened evince view
  • Support fullscreening the e-pub view
  • Don't leak the URI when thumbnailing
  • Translation updates

New in GNOME Documents 3.24.0 (Mar 31, 2017)

  • Translation updates.

New in GNOME Documents 3.22.0 (Oct 24, 2016)

  • Translation updates

New in GNOME Documents 3.22.0 Beta (Aug 31, 2016)

  • Add initial epub support in Books (Cosimo Cecchi, Daniel Garcia Moreno)

New in GNOME Documents 3.19.3 (Dec 18, 2015)

  • Change to selection mode when pressing ctrl+a (Alessandro Bono)
  • Don't hide navigation controls when hovering (Alessandro Bono)
  • Don't invert the content of Books in night-mode (Bastien Nocera)
  • Show a spinner while creating the first collection (Alessandro Bono)
  • Rename "Recent" view to "Documents" or "Books" (Alessandro Bono)
  • Restore separate collections for Books and Documents (Alessandro Bono)
  • Add the ability to change the sort order of the view (Alessandro Bono, Arnel A. Borja)
  • Disable Print menu item when unsupported (Bastien Nocera)
  • Update the layout of the selection toolbar (Alessandro Bono)
  • Link preview searchbar with next and previous buttons (Alessandro Bono)
  • Add screenshots to AppData (Alessandro Bono, Bastien Nocera)
  • Show DjVu files as being eBooks (Bastien Nocera)
  • Fix lost keypresses when searching in fullscreen (Bastien Nocera)
  • Fix possible warnings exiting fullscreen (Bastien Nocera)
  • Fix installation on some systems (Bastien Nocera)
  • Fix the background of tagged entries
  • Don't show an extra menu when the app menu is disabled
  • Add a help overlay
  • Translation updates

New in GNOME Documents 3.18.2 (Nov 15, 2015)

  • Restore separate collections for Books and Documents (Alessandro Bono)
  • Translation updates

New in GNOME Documents 3.18.1 (Oct 15, 2015)

  • Change to selection mode when pressing ctrl+a (Alessandro Bono)
  • Don't hide navigation controls when hovering (Alessandro Bono)
  • Don't invert the content of Books in night-mode (Bastien Nocera)
  • Show a spinner while creating the first collection (Alessandro Bono)
  • Fix the background of tagged entries
  • Don't show an extra menu when the app menu is disabled
  • Translation updates

New in GNOME Documents 3.18 Beta 1 (Aug 23, 2015)

  • New collections dialog (Alessandro Bono)
  • Don't show the places dialog if there is only one page (Alessandro Bono)
  • Port to package.js (Alessandro Bono)
  • Unbreak activating documents from the search provider
  • Adapt the sharing dialog to work with latest Google Drive changes
  • Translation updates

New in GNOME Documents 3.16.3 (Aug 4, 2015)

  • Collections are not displayed in the collections dialog (Alessandro Bono)
  • Fix the sharing dialog to work with the latest Google Drive changes
  • Unbreak activating documents from the search provider
  • Translation updates

New in GNOME Documents 3.17.2 (May 25, 2015)

  • Handle inability to load unsupported e-book formats (Bastien Nocera)
  • Use the trash while deleting (Bastien Nocera)
  • Fixed partially visible text in collections dialog (Muhammet Kara)
  • Hide "Contents" tab when no TOC is available (Muhammet Kara)
  • Prevent multiple about dialogs from opening (Alessandro Bono)

New in GNOME Documents 3.16.2 (May 12, 2015)

  • Implement night mode in the content (Alessandro Bono)
  • Use the trash while deleting (Bastien Nocera)
  • Add placeholder text for PostScript files when the no TOC is available
  • Restore the search criteria when we move back from the preview or collection view to the search results
  • Adapt to changes in nao:identifier syntax for Google items
  • Unbreak loading Google and SkyDrive items from the cache
  • Prevent WebKit2 from blowing away our cache
  • Translation updates

New in GNOME Documents 3.16.0 (Mar 24, 2015)

  • Fixed bugs and regressions caused by having separate views for documents and collections
  • Translation updates

New in GNOME Documents 3.16.0 Beta 2 (Mar 9, 2015)

  • Handle inability to load unsupported e-book formats (Bastien Nocera)
  • Fixed partially visible text in collections dialog (Muhammet Kara)
  • Prevent multiple about dialogs from opening (Alessandro Bono)
  • Make the overlaid preview controls work nicely on touchscreens
  • Stop search provider from spawning miners and setting the tracker priority
  • Translation updates

New in GNOME Documents 3.16.0 Beta 1 (Feb 20, 2015)

  • Separate views for documents and collections
  • Fix edge hit detection to use edge-reached instead of edge-overshot
  • Add man page and AppData for Books
  • Documentation updates (Ekaterina Gerasimova)
  • Translation updates

New in GNOME Documents 3.15.2 (Jan 30, 2015)

  • Add support for "Night mode"
  • Add new "Books" applications (Note that viewing ePub and Mobi formats isn't implemented yet)
  • Port to WebKit2
  • Fix some documents getting opened in the Archive Manager
  • Fix a number of interaction problems related to fullscreen and controls
  • Use GTK+' search bar widget instead of our own

New in GNOME Documents 3.14.2 (Nov 13, 2014)

  • Disable SSLv3 to prevent POODLE attacks

New in GNOME Documents 3.14.1 (Oct 18, 2014)

  • Pass the correct arguments to pdf_loader_load_uri_async (Pranav Kant)
  • Fix crash in places and bookmarks dialog
  • Translation updates

New in GNOME Documents 3.14.0 (Sep 24, 2014)

  • Translation updates

New in GNOME Documents 3.14 RC (Sep 17, 2014)

  • Fix use of gdata_documents_service_get_primary_authorization_domain
  • Fix drag and drop of items in the view
  • Update for new Adwaita/GTK style changes
  • Use schema_id instead of deprecated schema for GSettings (David King)
  • Translation updates

New in GNOME Documents 3.14 Beta 2 (Sep 2, 2014)

  • Use a GtkPopover for the search options dropdown (Marta Milakovic)
  • Add a notification when an item is deleted
  • Fix HiDpi support in the preview floating window
  • Fix HiDpi support in the search entry tags
  • Fix handling of back key in preview mode (Paul Martin)
  • Fix RDF type of text and HTML files (Bastien Nocera)
  • Fix CSS style for latest GTK (Saurav Agarwalla)
  • Translation updates

New in GNOME Documents 3.13.4 (Jul 29, 2014)

  • Appdata fixes
  • Single-binary setup for DBus activation
  • Update menu icon to use a hamburger instead of a gear
  • Disable bookmarking if metadata is unsupported
  • Update for new RefreshDB API
  • Translation updates

New in GNOME Documents 3.13.1 (May 2, 2014)

  • Use X close buttons in presentation dialogs (Felipe Borges, Marta Milakovic)
  • Scale the thumbnails on HiDpi displays
  • Overlay scrub bar (slider) disappears while using it
  • Unbreak the contents and bookmarks dialog
  • Make the thumbnailing robust against theme failures
  • Prioritize relevant RDF types
  • Translation updates

New in GNOME Documents 3.12.0 (Mar 25, 2014)

  • Fix crash when list view is destroyed
  • Translation updates

New in GNOME Documents 3.12 RC1 (Mar 18, 2014)

  • Use header bars in dialogs
  • Allow Enter to activate first search result (Pranav Kant)
  • Don't make "edit" active for documents that can't be edited
  • Fix zoom in not working with certain keyboards (Daniel Goetz)
  • Fix multiple stacked indexing in-app notifications (Marta Milakovic)
  • Fix toolbar behavior for GTK changes
  • Fix possible crash due to UTF-8/bytes mismatch
  • Focus search entry after changing filters (Rohit Agarwal)
  • Improve getting started turorial (Jakub Steiner, Ekaterina Gerasimova)
  • Improve user help for 3.12 (Ekaterina Gerasimova)
  • Translation updates

New in GNOME Documents 3.12 Beta 2 (Mar 15, 2014)

  • Add user help (Ekaterina Gerasimova)
  • Point Getting Started to user help (Jakub Steiner)
  • Allow enter to activate first search item (Pranav Kant)
  • Disable the sharing dialog for non-Google content
  • Use margin-{start,end} instead of deprecated margin-{left,right}
  • Disable invalid UI controls in the preview toolbar
  • Handle the password dialog being deleted
  • Show the navigation bar after pointer movement
  • Translation updates

New in GNOME Documents 3.11.5 (Feb 6, 2014)

  • Fix invalid thumbnails when downloading from remote sources
  • Casefold search strings instead of lowercasing
  • Protet against spurious view-as changed signals
  • Fix back key behavior in RTL locales

New in GNOME Documents 3.11.4 (Jan 15, 2014)

  • Hide the search bar when moving from overview to preview
  • Move the Grid/List controls to the toolbar
  • Use GtkActionBar for the selection toolbar (William Jon McCann)
  • Settings is the new name for gnome-control-center
  • Simplify the PreviewNavButtons show/hide code
  • Translation updates

New in GNOME Documents 3.11.3 (Dec 21, 2013)

  • Fix CRITICALs when loading a document from Google or SkyDrive
  • Support building against Tracker 0.18 (Dominique Leuenberger)
  • Standardize Help/About/Quit in the app menu (Michael Catanzaro)
  • Translation updates

New in GNOME Documents 3.11.2 (Nov 22, 2013)

  • Prepare for E4X removal (Tim Lunn and Colin Walters)

New in GNOME Documents 3.10.1 (Nov 14, 2013)

  • Update the URL of the website (Alex Gibson)
  • Thumbnail Google content on freshly installed systems
  • Translation updates

New in GNOME Documents 3.10.0 (Oct 25, 2013)

  • Translation updates.

New in GNOME Documents 3.10 Beta 2 (Sep 3, 2013)

  • Remove emphasis on Cancel button (Arnel A. Borja)
  • Fix presentation mode for GnomeRR API change

New in GNOME Documents 3.8.4 (Aug 31, 2013)

  • Fix the properties dialog for local collections (Debarshi Ray)
  • Ellipsize the source label in the properties dialog to deal with long paths (Debarshi Ray)
  • Wrap the secondary error label to deal with long messages (Debarshi Ray)

New in GNOME Documents 3.10 Beta 1 (Aug 21, 2013)

  • Use the new selection toolbar pattern
  • Use a GTK headerbar for titlebar
  • Add support for documents on an OwnCloud share

New in GNOME Documents 3.9.4 (Jul 11, 2013)

  • Support previewing of password-protected PDFs (Debarshi Ray)
  • Port to gnome-online-miners for remote accounts (Debarshi Ray)

New in GNOME Documents 3.9.3 (Jun 18, 2013)

  • Revamp Organize Collections view for new designs (Debarshi Ray)
  • Port to GtkListBox (Giovanni Campagna)
  • Add tooltips for preview navbar buttons (Alessandro Campagni)
  • Add page navigation with Left/Right buttons (Alessandro Campagni)
  • Port the search provider to use serialized GIcons
  • Port to GtkHeaderBar, GtkStack and GtkRevealer

New in GNOME Documents 3.8.3.1 (Jun 17, 2013)

  • Ignore Google documents without a thumbnail URI (Debarshi Ray)

New in GNOME Documents 3.8.3 (Jun 11, 2013)

  • Show thumbnails for Google Documents (Debarshi Ray)
  • Add a manual page (Debarshi Ray)
  • Don't forward key events to search bar on error (Debarshi Ray)
  • Fix crash when trying to load links on a document that does not support them (Debarshi Ray)
  • Fix crash when trying to search into a document that does not support it (Debarshi Ray)
  • Fix hang when going back to overview after disabling a GOA account while previewing or editing (Debarshi Ray)
  • Fix stray unoconv process when loading is cancelled in-flight (Debarshi Ray)
  • Fix a not working in overview (Debarshi Ray)
  • Fix user input being incorrectly overwritten with the lowercase version used internally (Debarshi Ray)

New in GNOME Documents 3.8.2 (May 14, 2013)

  • Flip navigation buttons in RTL
  • Update to latest libgd
  • Translation updates

New in GNOME Documents 3.8.1 (Apr 19, 2013)

  • Support rubberband selection in views (Alexander Larsson)
  • Fix default response in Properties (Debarshi Ray)
  • Fix prev/next page buttons not working in dual mode
  • Fix bugs when launched from a search provider result
  • Fix PDF from Google Drive not using the right document type
  • Fix icon for Google Drawings
  • Fix a crash when closing the preview soon after show

New in GNOME Documents 3.8.0 (Mar 26, 2013)

  • Translation updates.

New in GNOME Documents 3.7.92 (Mar 19, 2013)

  • Validate desktop file during make check
  • Translation updates

New in GNOME Documents 3.7.91 (Mar 5, 2013)

  • Install a translatable Getting Started with Documents tutorial PDF
  • Use a linked style for the search dropdown button
  • Use a revealer animation for the search dropdown
  • Make page switch widgets insensitive for single-page documents
  • Fix search dropdown stuck after view mode switch
  • Fix back keybinding not working when going back from collections
  • Fix mouse back button not working
  • Fix searchbar appearing when fullscreen in edit mode

New in GNOME Documents 3.7.90 (Feb 20, 2013)

  • Add a presentation mode (William Jon McCann)
  • Add Previous/Next overlay buttons in preview (William Jon McCann)
  • Add support to launch external links from documents (Fabiano Fidêncio)
  • Add support for PDF documents from Google (William Jon McCann)
  • Remove clutter and clutter-gtk dependencies
  • Fix a bug in the positioning of the preview overlay window
  • Lots of minor cleanups and bugfixes

New in GNOME Documents 3.7.5 (Feb 8, 2013)

  • Add an embedded edit mode for Google documents (William Jon McCann)
  • Add a Bookmarks page in preview mode (William Jon McCann)
  • Improve the error dialog layout (William Jon McCann)
  • Use more human readable messages for GData errors (William Jon McCann)
  • Don't use the dark theme in fullscreen preview (William Jon McCann)
  • Add some padding around the preview navigation bar (William Jon McCann)
  • Fix double search entry in fullscreen preview
  • Fix crash when going back from a Google document under some circumstances
  • Fix double and misspelled indexing notifications

New in GNOME Documents 3.7.4 (Jan 16, 2013)

  • Use a new page navigation bar in preview (William Jon McCann)
  • Add a sharing dialog for GDocs (Meg Ford)
  • Use new automatic page sizing and page layout modes (William Jon McCann)
  • Respect zoom limits for preview zoom actions (William Jon McCann)
  • Install unoconv trough PackageKit when missing
  • Fix finding text in page when in fullscreen mode
  • Set a minimum size request for the main window

New in GNOME Documents 3.6.2 (Jan 16, 2013)

  • Don't flicker overview when launching a preview from the search provider
  • Don't start GOA miners for account types we don't have
  • Add keyboard accelerators for help, print and the gear menu (Jeremy Bicha)