kupfer v208

Released Friday, 1 June 2012

• Fix bug with nonexisting catalog directories (Karol) (1000980)
• Fix sending to many with Thunderbird (Karol) (955100)
• Fix history file for OpenOffice/LibreOffice (Karol)
• Audacious plugin: Work with Audacious 3 (Ulrik)
• Localization updates:
  • cs, Marek Černocký
  • es, Daniel Mustieles
  • fr, Alexandre Franke, Bruno Brouard
  • ru, Nikolay Barbariyskiy
  • sl, Matej Urbančič

kupfer v207

Released Sunday, 26 February 2012

• Documentation translated to French by Bruno Brouard
• New translation to Brazilian Portuguese by Djavan Fagundes
• New translation to Hungarian by SanskritFritz
• Handle large text objects a bit better
• Introduce proxy objects Clipboard File and Clipboard Text. These objects are implemented in the Clipboard plugin, just like the Selected Text object which has changed home to this plugin. Accordingly, deactivating the clipboard plugin will deactivate these proxies.
• Support copying and pasting files from/to the clipboard, which allows much easier integration with file managers.
• Add an information text detailing which keyring backend is used to store passwords, visible in the user credentials dialog.
• Vim: Expand the vim plugin to use a helper process to track running server instances of (G)Vim. Each running session is exported as an object, and most importantly, files can be opened in a session using the action Open With.
• Multihead Support: This new plugin will start the "keyboard shortcut relay" service on additional screens, if it is needed. It is active by default, and does not do anything on configurations with a single X screen.
• Send Keys: Allow sending key sequences using comma trick.
• Thunar: Add action Symlink In...
• Quicksilver Icons: New plugin with a few icons from Quicksilver
• Use themable custom icon names kupfer-execute, kupfer-catalog, kupfer-launch. Also allow plugins to choose to supply icons when the icon theme lacks them, or always override the icon theme.
• Fix passing zero-length arguments to programs (Fabián Ezequiel Gallina) (863349)
• Gmail: Expose more contact info fields (Adi Sieker, Karol Będkowski)
• Add plugin DuckDuckGo (Isaac Aggrey)
• Add quick note action to Zim (Karol Będkowski)
• Add Edit Contact in Gmail to Gmail (Karol)
• Fix version detection in Gajim (Karol)
• Google Translate: Since Google no longer provides this API (for free), this plugin is no longer included in Kupfer.
• Fix compatibility with dbus-python version 1.0 (921829)
• Fix loss of window shape when centering (David Schneider) (779845)
• We are now using the format .tar.xz for the distribution tarball.
• The git repository and tarball now includes a local copy of waf (1.6.11), unmodified but with unused in Tools/ and extras/ removed.
• Localization updates:
  • (cs) Marek Černocký
  • (de) Mario Blättermann
  • (fr) Bruno Brouard
  • (es) Daniel Mustieles
  • (hu) SanskritFritz
  • (pl) Piotr Drąg
  • (pt_BR) Djavan Fagundes
  • (sl) Andrej Žnidaršič
  • (sv) Ulrik

kupfer v206

The longest changelog ever—the best Kupfer ever?

Released Thursday, 14 April 2011

These are changes since the v205 release. Below this I have included, the full changelog for all the features introduced in v205, since it was not published in whole together with the v205 release.

I would like to thank all contributors for patches, bug reports, comments and translations. A special thanks to those who have contributed to the user documentation; it is now complete in both Polish and Spanish.

If you like my work with Kupfer, you can support me by donating. There are instructions how to do so on the web page. –ulrik.

• Thunderbird: fix double create email windows (747198)
• Thunderbird: fix problem with loading contacts (Karol Będkowski) (747438)
• Use rst2man as it was configured (747500)
• Reduce runtime memory use for substantially by reimplementing the icon cache (expectations vary btw. 10 to 30 percent).
• Prefer gnomekeyring over kwallet, and don't load keyring support if it is not requested by a plugin (747864)
• Make the "folder" icon take precedence over "inode/directory"
• Fix a regression in Go To that would not focus minimized windows.
• In Go To action, cycle application windows (if they are all on the same workspace).
• Fix 671105: the user's home is aliased as Home Folder and the "lookalike" application is hidden.
• Use GTK+ as default icon set, the ASCII icon set remains as a plugin
• Fix regression 749824, kupfer used a GTK+ 2.20 feature. Kupfer should now run under GTK+ 2.18 (2.16?). GTK+ 2.20 is recommended and needed for full input method support.
• Remake .desktop file parsing to be much more lenient, so that we can launch all applications again. Affected were especially launcher files written by wine.
• Make sure the Home key works in text mode (750240)
• Rhythmbox: Fix omission of .jpg extension when searching cover art (William Friesen)
• Support xfce4-dict in Dictionary plugin (David Schneider)
• Make sure kupfer.svg can be mimetype-detected (NAKAMURA Yoshitaka) (750488)
• Fix regression that prevented mimetypes and icon cache from being updated properly when installing from source.
• Focus the plugin list search box by default in the preferences window.
• Fix regression in XFCE Session Management that had a broken logout command.
• Install kupfer as a Thunar 'sendto' object.
• Fix a bug in the autostart file we installed, it was including a '%F' which broke --no-splash when autostarted on XFCE.
• LibreOffice: support their newer recent documents file (Karol Będkowski)
• Notes: Insert newlines after the new note title (748991)
• Commands: Recognize absolute paths with arguments as shell commands (for example /bin/grep --help. (152093)
• GNU Screen: check if sessions are still active (756449), don't give up even if $SCREENDIR is missing when we are started (753376)
• Notes: support the program kzrnote as well
• Renamed the two like-named command actions in spanish (Daniel Mustieles)
• Localization updates for v206:
  • sl Andrej Žnidaršič
  • es Daniel Mustieles
  • de Mario Blättermann

This is the changelog for the v205 release, which was released previously.

• Changes to the interface
  • Add a small menu button on the window for explicit access to context actions, preferences window, and help.
  • Increase icon size to 128px
  • Always show description field
  • Use an undecorated window with rounded corners
  • Let the frame be slightly transparent if supported
  • Themable colors and properties by using GTK+ styling, see Documentation/GTKTheming.rst, and the plugin Custom Theme that shows how to use custom styles.
• Add context action "Set X as default action for object Y"
  • For example, you can make Launch Again default for Terminal, and our default configuration uses this setting for two common terminals (GNOME and XFCE).
• Updated Kupfer's technical documentation (in Documentation/), including the Plugin API reference.
• Implement a preedit widget for input methods, also resolving the incompatibility with ibus (David Schneider) (696727)
• Re-implement launching of applications
• Allow the user to configure which terminal program is used. Applies to all of Run in Terminal, Open Terminal Here, for .desktop files that specify Terminal=true etc.
• Implement an "alternatives" mechanism so that plugins can register mutually exclusive alternatives. Currently implemented are Terminals (see above) and Icon Renderers.
• Thunar: Use Thunar 1.2's Copy and Move API.
  • These allow copying and moving anything through thunar, and it will show progress dialogs for longer transactions.
• Add Ascii & Unicode Icon Set for fun
• Add simple plugin Quick Image Viewer to show images in a simple way.
• Add Send Keys plugin that can send synthetic keyboard events, and prominently can be used for the Paste to Foreground Window action on text. Requires xautomation package. (621453)
• Volumes: treat mounts as regular folders, so they can be targets for file operations.
• File Actions: the action Move to Trash switches home to the Trash plugin, the archive actions go to new Archive Manager plugin. Archive Manager also updated to recognize more archive file types, including .xz.
• Activate current selection on double-click in the interface. (700948)
• Update the preferences window and move the folder configuration to the Catalog tab.
• Add initialize_plugin to the plugin interface.
• The D-Bus interface has been extended with X screen and timestamp-aware versions of all methods:
  • PresentOnDisplay, PutFilesOnDisplay, PutTextOnDisplay, ExecuteFileOnDisplay all act like their similarly-named predecessors, but take $DISPLAY and $DESKTOP_STARTUP_ID as their last two arguments.
  • kupfer-exec activation sends the event timestamp so that focus can be carried along correctly even when running .kfcom files (if activated as an application by startup-notification-aware launchers, this works with most standard desktop components).
• Internally, change how actions are carried out by allowing the action execution context object to be passed down the execution chain instead of being a global resource. This also allows plugins to cleanly access current environment (event timestamp, current screen etc).
  • Support running kupfer on multiple X screens (614796), use the command kupfer --relay on each additional screen for global keyboard shortcut support. This is experimental until further notice!
• The Tracker 0.8 plugin supports version 0.8 and 0.10 alike. Because of that and the expected compatibility with one version after this too, it's now called Tracker.
• The Favorites plugin lists Kupfer Help and Kupfer Preferences by default (for new users), so that it's not empty and those items are ranked higher.
• In free-text mode, show a character count in the text entry.
• The action Go To on applications has changed implementation. It will first bring to front all the application's windows on the current workspace, and upon the next invocations it will focus the other workspaces, in order, if they have windows from the same application. For single-window applications, nothing is changed.
• Localization updates for v205:
  • (cs) Marek Černocký
  • (de) Mario Blättermann
  • (es) Daniel Mustieles
  • (ko) Kim Boram
  • (nb) Kjartan Maraas
  • (pl) Karol Będkowski
  • (sl) Andrej Žnidaršič
  • (sv) Ulrik

kupfer v205

Congratulating ourselves

Released Friday, 1 April 2011

• Changes to the interface
  • NOw we have a teh awsum interface
• Add context action "Set X as default action for object Y"
  • You can finally make Kupfer do what you want.
• Implement a preedit widget for input methods, also resolving the incompatibility with ibus (David Schneider) (696727)
  • Ok, so that foreign people can enter text too.
• Updated Kupfer's technical documentation (in Documentation/), including the Plugin API reference.
  • Someone finally bothered
• The action Go To on applications has changed implementation. It will first bring to front all yada yada, etc...
  • Whatever, it finally works in a sensible way
• And tons of other stuff, enjoy!

kupfer v204

Released Friday, 18 March 2011

• Expand and improve upon Kupfer's User Documentation.
• Use and require Waf 1.6, which supports building using either Python 3 or Python 2.6+. Kupfer itself still uses Python 2.6+ only.
• Add Gwibber plugin that allows integration with Twitter, Identi.ca, Buzz etc. (Karol Będkowski)
• Add chat client Empathy plugin (Jakh Daven)
• Remove the plugin Twitter since it is incompatible and has no updated implementation.
• Add Show QRCode plugin by Thomas Renard (611162)
• Periodically save data from plugins so it's not lost if Kupfer can't exit cleanly at logout
• Commands: Add actions Pass to Command, Filter through Command, Send to Command which add a lot of shell script-related power to Kupfer. These actions, and Run (Get Output) as well, use a shell so that you can run shell pipelines.
• Search the Web: Fix bug in OpenSearch parser (682476)
• VirtualBox: Support vboxapi4 (Karol Będkowski)
• Thunderbird: Fix problems in the mork parser (Karol Będkowski) (694314)
• OpenOffice: Support LibreOffice too (Karol Będkowski)
• Fix "Y2011 bug" where the time parameter overflowed INT32 in keybinder
• Shorten Links: Use only services with stable API, added and removed services.
• Google Search, Google Translate and bit.ly in Shorten Links can use SSL for transport if a third-party plugin is installed.
• Fix bug if evolution address book is missing (Luca Falavigna) (691305)
• Fix Search the Web to use localized firefox-addons subdirectories for search engines (735083)
• Fix bug with integer division (Francesco Marella)
• APT: Workaround bug with subprocess (711136)
• Find cover art files just like Rhythmbox (William Friesen) (676433)
• Use readlink in kupfer-exec script too since realpath is not always available.
• Allow plugins to use update notifications (William Friesen)
• Bug 494237 is hopefully fixed once and for all.
• The Large Type action will work with anything that has TextRepresentation

• Localization updates:
  • (cs) Marek Černocký
  • (da) Joe Hansen
  • (de) Mario Blättermann
  • (es) Daniel Mustieles
  • (gl) Marcos Lans
  • (pl) Karol Będkowski
  • (sl) Andrej Žnidaršič
  • (sv) Ulrik
  • (zh_CN) Aron Xu, Yinghua Wang

kupfer v203

Released Saturday, 6 November 2010

• Center Kupfer on the monitor were the mouse pointer is (642653, 3d0ba12)
• Ignore the system's configured input manager by default (User can choose by pressing Shift+F10 in Kupfer). Kupfer is still not compatible with ibus 1.3. (601816, 4f029e6)
• Use readlink instead of realpath (656b32d)
• Opera Mail: Handle contacts with multiple e-mail addresses (Chris Parsons) (661893, 12924be)
• Google Translate: Fix language list (Karol Będkowski) (600406, 7afac2b)
• TSClient: Search recursively for session files (Karol, Freddie Brandt) (ad58c2e)
• Rhythmbox: Fix thumbnail lookup (William Friesen) (669077, b673f98)
• New Slovenian translation of help by Matej Urbančič (3b7df25)
• New Turkish translation by M. Deran Delice (bd95d2a)

kupfer v202

Released Sunday, 5 September 2010

• Add option to hide Kupfer when focus is lost (and enable by default) (Grigory Javadyan) (511972)
• Use application indicators when available (Francesco Marella) (601861)
• Python module keyring is now optional for Kupfer (but required for the same plugins that used them before)
• Update Google Translate for protocol changes (Karol, Ulrik) (600406)
• Disable saving window position until a better solution is found
• Use 'mailto:' as URL (630489)
• Fix UI glictch with empty Source (William Friesen) (630244)
• Small changes (Francesco Marella)
• New Czech translation of the help pages (Marek Černocký)
• New Italian translation of the help pages (Francesco Marella)
• New Polish translation of the help pages (Karol Będkowski)
• New Basque translation (Oier Mees, Iñaki Larrañaga Murgoitio)
• New Galician translation (Fran Diéguez)
• Localization updates:
  • cs (Marek Černocký)
  • de (Mario Blättermann)
  • pl (Karol Będkowski)
  • sl (Andrej Žnidaršič)
  • zh_CN (Aron Xu)

kupfer v201

Released Wednesday, 30 June 2010

• New Logo and Icon by Nasser Alshammari!
• New plugin Opera Mail by Chris Parsons
• New plugin SSH Hosts by Fabian Carlström
• New plugin Filezilla by Karol Będkowski
• New plugin Getting Things GNOME! (Karol)
• New plugin Vim (recent files)
• Clipboard: Option Copy selection to primary clipboard (Karol)
• Firefox: Option Include visited sites (Karol) (584618)
• Thunar: Action Send To... (Karol)
• New preferences tab for Catalog configuration
• Allow disabling and "unloading" plugins at runtime
• Support new tracker in plugin Tracker 0.8
• Shell Commands: New Action Run (Get Output)
• New plugin capabilities: ActionGenerator, Plugin setting change notifications (Karol)
• Use setproctitle module if available to set process title to kupfer (new optional dependency)
• Don't use a crypted keyring (partially addresses 593319)
• Fix 544908: Retain window position across sessions
• Fix 583747: Use real theme colors for highlight
• Fix 593312: About window has no icon
• More minor changes
• Localization updates:
  • cs, Marek Černocký
  • de, Mario Blättermann
  • es, Jorge González
  • it, Francesco Marella
  • pl, Karol Będkowski
  • sl, Andrej Žnidaršič
  • sv, Ulrik

kupfer v200

Released Wednesday, 7 April 2010

• Add Keyboard Shortcut configuration (Karol Będkowski)
• Make it easier to copy and move files (William Friesen), while showing user-friendly errors when action is not possible (Ulrik) (516530)
• Collect results in a Command Results subcatalog, including results from asynchronous commands (Pro tip: Bind a trigger to Command Results → Search Contents, for quick access to copied files, downloaded files etc)
• Last Result proxy object implemented
• Add Cliboards -> Clear action (Karol)
• Add Rescan action for some sources (Karol)
• Add an icon in the plugin list search field to enable clearing it (Karol)
• Fix spelling (Francesco Marella)
• Fix bug 544289
• Require python module keyring (since pandoras-box-1.99, but was not mentioned)
• Recommend python-keybinder version 0.0.9 or later
• Localization updates:
  • cs Marek Černocký
  • de Mario Blättermann
  • es Jorge González
  • pl Karol Będkowski
  • sl Andrej Žnidaršič
  • sv Ulrik
  • zh_CN Aron Xu

kupfer version pandoras-box-1.99

Released Tuesday, 16 March 2010

• Plugins can be loaded at runtime, although not unloaded can they not
• Plugins can bundle icons, and plugins can be packaged in .zip files
• New plugins Google Search, Textfiles and Thunar
• New plugin Deep Archives to browse inside .zip and .tar files
• New plugins Twitter, Gmail and Google Picasa by Karol Będkowski
• New plugin Evolution by Francesco Marella
• New action Get Note Search Results... in Notes by William Friesen (LP#511954)
• New plugin capabilities (user credentials, background loader) by Karol
• Added Next Window proxy object to Window List plugin
• Allow saving Kupfer commands to .kfcom files, and executing them with the kupfer-exec helper script.
• Display error notifications to the user when some actions can not be carried out.
• Allow collecting selections with the Clipboard plugin (Karol)
• Include Gnome/Yelp documentation written using Mallard (Mario Blättermann)
• Make Zim plugin compatible with newer Zim (Karol, Ulrik)
• Detect multiple volume rar files (William Friesen) (LP#516021)
• Detect XFCE logout better (Karol) (LP#517819)
• Fix reading VirtualBox config files (Alexey Porotnikov) (LP#520987)
• Fixed module name collision in user plugins (LP#518958), favoriting "loose" applications (LP#518908), bookmarked folders description (LP#509385), Locate plugin on OpenSUSE (LP#517819), Encoding problem for application aliases (LP#537730)
• New French translation by Christophe Benz
• New Norwegian (Bokmål) translation by Kjartan Maraas
• Kupfer now requires Python 2.6
• Localization updates:
  • cs Marek Černocký
  • de Mario Blättermann
  • es Jorge González
  • fr Christophe Benz
  • it Francesco Marella
  • nb Kjartan Maraas
  • pl Karol Będkowski
  • pt Carlos Pais
  • sl Andrej Žnidaršič
  • sv Ulrik

kupfer version pandoras-box-1.1

Released Monday, 8 February 2010

• Fix bug in contact grouping code that could cause unusable Kupfer with Pidgin plugin. Reported by Vadim Peretokin (LP#517548)
• Chromium plugin will index Google Chrome bookmarks as fallback, by William Friesen (LP#513602)
• Kupfer's nautilus plugin was changed to be easier to reuse for others
• Some minor changes
• Localization updates:
  • pt (Carlos Pais)

kupfer version pandoras-box-1

"Pandora's box"

Released Monday, 1 February 2010

• Implement the famous "comma trick": Press , (comma) in the first or third pane to make a stack of objects to perform actions on. This allows actions on many objects and even many-to-many actions.
• New plugin: Triggers: Add global keybindings to any command you can perform in Kupfer.
• New plugin Skype by Karol Będkowski
• New plugin Thunderbird (or Icedove) (Karol)
• Implement merging of contacts and hosts: All contacts of the same name are merged into one object. (Karol, Ulrik)
• New plugin Higher-order Actions to work with saved commands as objects
• The Favorites plugin was reimplemented: you may favorite (almost) any object. Favorites get a star and a rank boost.
• Window List plugin was improved, most notably a Frontmost Window proxy object was added
• New proxy object Last Command
• The Firefox plugin now includes most-visited sites from browser history (William Friesen, Karol, Ulrik)
• The list of plugins has a field to allow filtering the list (Karol)
• New Czech localization by Marek Černocký
• Many smaller changes.
• Localization updates:
  • cs (Marek Černocký, Petr Kovar)
  • de (Mario Blättermann)
  • nl (Martin Koelewijn)
  • pl (Karol)
  • sv
  • sl (Andrej Žnidaršič)

kupfer version c19.1

Released 31 December 2009

• New plugin: Shorten Links by Karol Będkowski
• Implemented Ctrl+C (and Ctrl+X) to copy (cut) selected object
• Fix bug LP #498542: restore window position code to c18
• Partial fix of bug LP #494237, window is sometimes blank
• Fix bug LP #500395, column order in Top plugin (Karol)
• Fix bug LP #500619, handle network errors in Google Translate plugin (Karol)
• Localization updates:
  • pl (Karol)
  • sv

kupfer version c19

Released 18 December 2009

• New plugins:
  • Gnome Terminal Profiles by Chmouel Boudjnah
  • OpenOffice recent documents in OpenOffice by Karol Będkowski
  • Top show and send signals to running tasks (Karol)
  • Truecrypt show volumes in truecrypt history and allow mounting them (Karol)
  • Vinagre Remote Desktop Viewer (Karol)
  • XFCE Session Management (Karol)
  • Audacious by Horia V. Corcalciuc
• New Slovenian translation by Andrej Žnidaršič
• Some plugins will now explicitly require a D-Bus connection and fail to load if no connection was found.
• Add accelerators Page Up, Page Down and Home in the result list. (Karol)
• Use customized or localized desktop directory instead of hardcoding ~/Desktop by default. It will not affect users who already customized which directories Kupfer indexes.
• It now is possible to favorite shell commandlines
• Gajim plugin now works with version 0.13 (Karol) (LP #489484)
• Basic support for Right-to-left (RTL) interface
• Fix bugs with "loose" Applications (not in system directories), reported by Chmouel.
• Add accelerator Ctrl+Return for Compose Command: You may compose a command object out of an (Object, Action) combination, to be used with the new action Run After Delay....
• Added file action Send by Email to Claws Mail plugin (Karol)
• Added file action Mount as TrueCrypt Volume to TrueCrypt plugin (Karol)
• Many small bugfixes

Localization updates:

• de: Mario Blättermann
• es: Jorge González
• it: Francesco Marella
• pl: Karol Będkowski
• sl: new (Andrej)
• sv: Ulrik Sverdrup

kupfer version c18.1

Released 20 November 2009

• Fix bug to toss out malfunctioning plugins properly (Reported by Jan)
• Fix bug in showing the shutdown dialog, reported by user sillyfofilly (LP 484664)
• Fix bug in plugin Document Templates, reported by Francesco Marella (part of LP 471462)

kupfer version c18

Released 18 November 2009

"Mímisbrunnr"

• New plugins:
  • Pidgin by Chmouel Boudjnah
  • Google Translate by Karol Będkowski
  • APT (package manager APT) by Martin Koelewijn and Ulrik
  • Document Templates
  • Kupfer Plugins
  • Show Text
• Gajim plugin matches contacts by jid as well as name, suggested by Stanislav G-E (LP 462866)
• Action Rescan on sources is now debug only (should not be needed)
• Kupfer installs its Python package into $PREFIX/share by default, instead of installing as a system-wide Python module.
• Kupfer can take input on stdin and pass as text to an already running instance
• Fix bug in Services for Arch Linux, reported by lh (LP 463071)
• Changes for plugin authors:
  • May use uiutils.show_text_result to show text
  • kupfer.task.ThreadTask is now a reliable way to run actions asynchronously (in a thread)
  • You can use item Restart Kupfer to restart (in debug mode)
  • Plugins may be implemented as Python packages, as well as modules
• Updated the dependencies in the README. pygobject 2.18 is required. Added gvfs as very recommended.
• Other bugfixes

Localization updates:

• de (Mario Blättermann)
• es (Jorge González)
• nl (Martin Koelewijn)
• pl (Karol Będkowski)
• sv
• zh_CH (lh)

kupfer version c17

Released, 25 October 2009

"A fire lit by nine kinds of wood"

• 8 new plugins by Karol Będkowski:
  • Claws Mail, Contacts and actions
  • Gajim, Access to gajim contacts
  • Opera Bookmarks, for the web browser Opera
  • PuTTY Sessions, access to PuTTY sessions
  • System Services, start, stop or restart system services
  • Terminal Server Client, access to TSClient sessions
  • VirtualBox, control virtual machines, Sun or OSE version
  • Zim, access pages in the desktop wiki
• New plugin Chromium Bookmarks by Francesco Marella
• Plugins missing dependencies will be presented in the GUI with a clear error message.
• Firefox Bookmarks plugin: Workaround Firefox 3.5 writing invalid JSON (Karol, Ulrik)
• Locate plugin: Ignore case by default, add option to control this. (Karol)
• Kupfer is much more friendly and says "Type to search in Catalog" when it is ready to be used.
• Localization updates:
  • New Simplified Chinese localization (lh)
  • New Dutch localization (Martin Koelewijn)
  • New Portuguese localization (Carlos Pais)
  • Updated pl (Karol)
  • Updated es (Jesús Barbero Rodríguez)

kupfer version c16

Released 5 October 2009

• Translation to German (Thibaud Roth)
• Polish translation updated (Maciej Kwiatkowski)
• Add search engine descriptions from firefox-addons (Francesco Marella)
• Speed up directory browsing by using much less system calls
• Improve documentation and put it together into a Manual.
• Generate man page from reStructuredText document Quickstart.
• Evaluate valid actions (per object) lazily to save work.
• Add accelerators Ctrl+Q (select quit) and Alt+A (activate)
• Parse even horribly wrong search engine descriptions (Bug reported by Martin Koelewijn)

kupfer version c15

• Translation to Polish by Maciej Kwiatkowski
• Speed up the string ranker tremendously; 3x faster in common cases.
• All objects now have an alias in the basic latin alphabet (if possible) so that, for example, query wylacz matches item Wyłącz.
• Show notification icon by default
• Read XML with cElementTree (Faster.)
• Read Firefox 3's bookmarks (Python2.5 requires cjson module)
• New Plugin: Image Tools, with action Scale... and JPEG rotation actions (Scale requires ImageMagick (convert), JPEG actions jpegtran and jhead)
• Basic support for a Magic Keybinding: summon kupfer with current selection

kupfer version c14.1

• Fix two bugs with new browisng mode (soft reset for text mode, backspace or left to erase a subcatalog search)

kupfer version c14

• Rewrite and improve browsing mode:
  • Browsing the catalog or folders is much improved; it is easier to keep the overview and be oriented.
  • Returning to kupfer after having performed an action, the old object is still available, but without locking the catalog to its location. When spawning kupfer again, the previous context is available if you immediately browse; if you search, you search the whole catalog.
  • The search times out after 2 seconds if no key is typed. Now the highlight text will fade to show this.
• Add accelerators Ctrl+G and Ctrl+T to get current selection in nautilus and currently selected text (if available).

kupfer version c13.1

• Fix two bugs with Rename To...

kupfer version c13

• New Plugin: Calculator
• New Action: Rename To... in File Actions Plugin
• Smaller changes (Stop learned mnemonics database from growing indefinitely, Catch SIGINT without python's handler, Copy To... requires pygobject 2.18 now)

kupfer version c12

• Translation to Spanish by Leandro Leites
• Preferences. Display plugin settings and options beside the plugin list, and allow configuring included (and watched) directories.
• Support the new Gnome session protocol to save state on log out.
• Improve embarassingly bad shell command quoting for Execute and Tracker tag actions.
• Specify user data locations with X-UserData
• Fix an AttributeError in Notes plugin reported by Francesco Marella
• Smaller fixes (Add/remove favorite could cease to work, Track intantiated sources better)

kupfer version c11

The "this one goes to 11" release

• New plugin: Notes (Gnote and Tomboy support)
  • Access notes, Actions: Create Note and Append to Note...
• New plugin: Selected File
  • Kupfer ships with a Nautilus python extension that once installed, you can access the currently selected file in Nautilus from Kupfer, as the Selected File object

This release is localized in: Swedish (100%), Italian (90%)

kupfer version c10.1

• Spanish Translation by Leandro Leites

kupfer version c10

• Updated italian localization
• New plugins: Url Actions, Web Search (rewritten to use all Firefox' search engines)
• New actions: Set Default Application, Create Archive In..., Restore (Restore trashed file)
• Add accelerators Control+R for reset, Control+S for select first (source) pane and Control+. for untoggle text mode.
• Only the bookmarks plugins can toggle "include in toplevel" now.
• Other smaller changes (Refuse invalid Application objects from the cache)

This release is localized in: Swedish (100%), Italian (93%)

kupfer version c9.1

• User interface consistency and behaviour improvements. UI is simpler and better.
• Other improvements.

This release is localized in: Swedish (100%), Italian (60%)

kupfer version c9

The "c9" release

• Search and browse perform better
• The interface is now modal. In command mode we can bind special keys to new functions. Type period . to enter free-text mode (just like in QS).
• Pressing kupfer's keybinding again will hide the window.
• Other smaller improvements

This release is localized in: Swedish (100%), Italian (60%)

kupfer version c8

• Make the use of the indirect object pane much more fluid
• Apply interface polish (proper english capitalization of actions and other objects, other changes)
• Add Copy To... action
• Try xdg-terminal first in Open Terminal Here (non-Gnome users can either install xdg-terminal or symlink it to their terminal program)
• Allow unbinding the keybinding
• Fix a bug with tracker tags

[Please file bug reports and feature requests.][lp]. Read the files in Documentation/ and see how you can add new plugins with object and application knowledge to kupfer.

This release is localized in: Swedish (100%), Italian (60%)

[lp]: http://launchpad.net/kupfer

kupfer version c7

The "choice" release

This is a followup with some small changes after the c6 release, which introduced lots of major changes, including a preferences window and "application content."

• Allow wnck to be optional. Kupfer needs wnck to do application matching and focusing of already running applications, but can now run without it if wnck is not available. Window List plugin also needs wnck
• Rhythmbox plugin should not crash even if library is not found, now kupfer can run even if rhythmbox's files are not there.
• Applications will match names as well as the executables, so that "gedit" matches Text Editor regardless of what the displayed localized name is.

[Please file bug reports and feature requests.][lp]. Read the files in Documentation/ and see how you can add new plugins with object and application knowledge to kupfer.

This release is localized in: Swedish (100%), Italian (60%)

[lp]: http://launchpad.net/kupfer

kupfer version c6

The "Sisyphus incremental improvements" release

• Preferences window
  • Allows setting keybinding on the fly
  • List and enable/disable plugins and set plugin options
• Everything was improved slightly, but steadily
• Understands more applications, provides more files and objects, and actions with new plugins: Rhythmbox, Abiword, Clipboards, Dictionary, Favorites, Selected Text, Wikipedia
• Connect applications with their related object sources and make it their content, such as Rhythmbox music for the Rhythmbox application.
  • Applications contain their recently used documents, if available.
  • Firefox and Epiphany bookmarks are identified with each application
• Miscellaneous improvements:
  • Kupfer object icon ("blue box")
  • Some default application associations are installed (others are learned by launching applications).
  • Experimental UI with two-line title+description in browse mode
  • Thumbnails for files and albums in browse mode
  • Allow sending files and queries to kupfer from the commandline using kupfer 'query' or kupfer docs/file.pdf.
  • Even more plugins listen to change callbacks or filesystem monitors to be up to date to the instant.
  • Do not display nonexisting files as results
  • Fine-tune how sources are loaded and refreshed on load

This release deserves lots of testing. [File bug reports and feature requests.][bug] Read the files in Documentation/ and see how you can add new plugins with object and application knowledge to kupfer.

This release is localized in: Swedish (100%), Italian (60%)

Future: part 2 of beautification is refactoring of the interface, so that the UI can be modularized and exchanged in plugins.

[bug]: http://launchpad.net/kupfer

kupfer version c5

The "Beauty from the inside, part 1" release

• Big refactorings of the whole data model
  • Move all of the data model to kupfer.data
  • Allow actions with indirect objects "threepane kupfer" (with means to configure which objects to use for an action etc)
  • Uses unicode internally, instead of UTF-8-encoded strings
• Some new actions using new possibilities (Open with any, Move file to new location, Add/Remove tracker tags) but more is possible.
• Basic manual page included
• Fileactions plugin includes unpack archive/create archive
• Ship extra and demonstration plugins in contrib/ and interals documentation in Documentation/
• Change learning algorithm to recognize an item's type as well (so that two objects named "project" can be ranked differently)
• Small fixes (alphabethic sorting for applications, sources, check if objects still exist after an action, rank_adjust default actions slightly)

This release deserves lots of testing. File bug reports and feature requests. Read the files in Documentation/ and see how you can add new plugins with object and application knowledge to kupfer.

This release is localized in: Swedish (100%), Italian (80%)

Future: part 2 of beautification is refactoring of the interface, so that the UI can be exchanged. And preferences will hopefully be implemented