0.8.1 Release Notes

Release Notes

This page serves to document the features and fixes found in the 0.8.1 release of GNOME Do. While this release is mainly a bug-fix release, some new features were added also.

GNOME Do

GNOME Do Plugins

New Plugins

Three new plugins were added to the 0.8.1 release of do-plugins. The Emesene Plugin and Youtube plugin were both written by Luis Montiel ([1]). The RequestTracker Plugin was written by Chris Jones ([2]).

New Features

Several existing plugins got a bit of a refresh in the form of new features.

• TSClient Plugin now searches for rdp connection files in all subdirectories (recursively) in ~/.tsclient
• Files and Folders Plugin now allows the user to ignore the maximum number of files limit that Do will index
• Files and Folders Plugin allows the user to exclude paths from being indexed.
• Locate Plugin now returns a nice error message when no files are found
• WindowManager Plugin now uses a better window matching algorithm
• VirtualBox Plugin now uses operating system icons for virtual machine items
• Tracker plugin now returns search results to Do
• Bibtex_Plugin fixes for 0.8 have been merged, Thumbnail support added
• Banshee plugin now indexes your media library.
• Shelf plugin greatly improved. Supporting multiple shelves, and shelf persistence across Do sessions. Also, ability to rename, add, and delete shelves.

Bugfixes

As this release is mainly a bug-fix release, many bugs were closed. A non-exhaustive list of bugs that were closed for 0.8.1 is shown below.

• Bug #317416: Open improperly escapes URLs
• Bug #318992: Copy/Paste using keyboard in Text Mode doesn't work in 1st pane
• Bug #324105: Max 3000 items in Files and Folders plugin
• Bug #262360: Locate plugin has no error message
• Bug #328236: Default action for SSH hosts is "open"
• Bug #327855: Search returns broken URLs
• Bug #322352: ts-client plugin doesn't index subdirectories
• Bug #325935: 'Read Man Pages' plugin makes Gnome-Do unresponsive
• Bug #323902: Virtualbox Icon in 2.10 are broken because of an new specification
• Bug #324667: Fix for Google Maps when using newlines and other special characters
• Bug #324271: Google Maps Plugin should'nt always use route
• Bug #317674: twitter plugin still reports friend updates even when deactivated
• Bug #337324: ImageShack fails to upload
• Bug #314927: Pidgin 2.5.4 has incompatible dbus interface. s/uint/int
• Bug #274252: gnome-do gCalculate plugin fails to display "times" symbol
• Bug #319433: Misspelling in microblogging plugin confirmation message
• Bug #330525: Typographical error in del.icio.us plugin

Contributors

• Matthew Frizelle - Minor Fixes and English (United Kingom) translations.