Variety Changelog

What's new in Variety 0.5.2

Jan 29, 2015
  • More logging by default, no need for -v argument.
  • Missing XDG directory definitions were causing Variety to fail. Fixed now.

New in Variety 0.5.0 (Jan 9, 2015)

  • Smart: updated again some texts
  • Removed some unnecessary delays in Timer calls
  • Trashing was slow due to smart-reporting: update queues and wallpaper first, report and delete in an outer thread afterwards
  • Added TestRedditDownloader
  • Initial registration screen: Register link instructs user to look for a new browser tab
  • Smart: updated some welcome screens texts
  • Smart: try to load user in init to avoid exception related to creating RecommendedDownloader
  • Updated variety.pot
  • Bumped version to 0.5.0
  • Merged variety-smart branch, preparing for 0.5.0 release
  • MediaRSS: use variety:author info when present
  • Merged in Simotek's Enlightenment related fix
  • Minor refactor: added VarietyWindow.register_downloaded_file
  • Show Next and Previous in main menu only in non-Unity DEs (Unity supports indicator scroll, no need for them there)
  • Make sure to delete metadata json when purging downloaded folder
  • Unicode: Make _u and _str transparent for None
  • Util.get_xdg_pictures_folder uses GLib.get_user_special_dir(GLib.USER_DIRECTORY_PICTURES), not subprocess call to xdg-user-dir
  • Merge in multi-screen Enlightenment-related changes from Simotek
  • set_wallpaper: Do not call unity-greeter gsettings command, it is causing issues on some machines
  • Use another server options URL, specific for the current version.
  • Merge changes to indicator.py from variety-smart
  • Merged in some changes from variety-smart
  • Merged in updates to Downloaders from the variety-smart branch
  • Next and previous options in main menu
  • Bumping the version number to 0.4.21
  • Added forgotten RedditDownloader.py
  • Added support for Reddit as an image source
  • Refactored out some duplicate code in AddXXXDialogs, added AbstractAddByQueryDialog
  • Option to search image with Google Image Search
  • More structured throttling of do_set_wp and scroll handling. Fix to ThumbsWindow when showing bad file
  • Autostart desktop file: use bash || command to run Variety wherever it is located. Create autostart entry on first run. Update it on every version upgrade
  • Minor fix to the desktop file
  • Ensure Variety starts and works OK when there is no wallpaper image
  • Fetch and save in EXIF SFW rating from Wallhaven
  • Update to Wallhaven search
  • Fixed some failing tests
  • Removed some outdated quotes-related tests
  • View at... option in right-click thumbnail menu as well
  • Updates related to Wallbase->Wallhaven change, not possible anymore to add Wallbase sources
  • Wallbase -> Wallhaven update to default sources
  • Adding Wallhaven.cc support
  • Merging changes to reading/writing metadata from variety-smart
  • Bugfix: do not remove delete wallpaper file in cleanup_old_wallpapers()
  • Faceboook sharing: do not include link to full image, let Facebook choose image itself
  • Bugfix: Make sure all dialogs require just one click on the X button to close
  • Bugfix: Add image source dialogs required two clicks on the X button to close
  • Use proper origin URL for Desktoppr images
  • Fix Unicode error related to non-ascii font names