Workrave NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. 25 Oct 2009 Copyright (C) 2001-2009 Rob Caelers & Raymond Penners See the end for copying conditions. Please report Workrave bug reports. Visit our bug tracker located at: http://www.workrave.org * Workrave 1.9.1 ** Updated translations *** new Romanian translation (Alexandru Szasz) *** new Estonian translation (Marko Väljaots) *** Removed extra "2" character in the Hungarian translation (Márton Németh) *** Update of Hungarian translation *** Update of Swedish translation ** Many bug fixes. Including: *** Fix saving the username in the networking preferences (Francois Marier) *** Fix KDE compilation errors (Stanislav Brabec) *** Fixed issue where autostart settings on Windows was not stored *** Fixed crashes when trying to add a host in networking preferences *** User activity is now recognized on Xorg 1.6.0 *** Fixed color in dark UI themes on Gnome. *** Workrave no longer shows two icons on GNOME notification panel *** Fixed tray icon tranparency *** Fixed issue on Vista where the break window is not on top of other windows (Ray Satiro) *** Improved volume control on Windows * Workrave 1.9.0 ** Many small bugfixes ** Fixed transparency of tray icon on Linux. ** New alternate activity moniting for Windows (Ray Satiro) ** Additional tooltips (Ray Satiro) ** Improved 64 bit support (Ray Satiro) ** Improved Vista support (Ray Satiro) ** Exercises are now randomized ** On Windows, the language can now be selected in the preferences ** The option 'Start Workrave when windows starts' has been added to the preferences ** Extended DBUS support on Unix ** Initial OSX port ** Networking supports can now be enabled without accepting incoming connections from other Workraves (Francois Marier) ** Sounds *** A sound has been added that indicates a next step in the exercise. *** The volume can now be configured *** All sounds can now be configured *** A new sound theme has been added (Ruairi Fullam) * Workrave 1.8.5 ** Lots of changes by Ray Satiro. ** Task manager is never blocked by Workrave (Ray Satiro) ** Workaround for focus loss on Vista (Ray Satiro) ** Vanja Cvelbar translated Workrave into Slovenian. ** Many bug fixes, the most visible ones: *** Fixed breaks that have 'suspend timer when inactive' disabled (Ray Satiro) *** Improved Windows responsiveness under high load. (by reverting a 1.8.4 change) *** Mode menu fixed. *** Gnome applet no longer 'hangs'. *** Gnome applet no longer crashes Workrave. *** Fixed crashes during startup on Windows. *** Fixed 'end-of-microbreak' sound. *** Fixed bug in multi-head support where Workrave showed multiple windows on a single screen. *** Fixed locking on Gnome with xscreensaver installed (Philipp Kern) * Workrave 1.8.4 ** Eraldo Girardi translated Workrave into Italian. ** Better support for vertical applets on Unix. ** Tao WEI translated Workrave into simplified Chinese. ** Peter Tuharsky translated Workrave into Slovak. ** Prokopis Prokopidis translated Workrave into Greek. ** The status window used to appear empty, only to be resized and filled with the timers shortly thereafter. Now it appears right away in the proper size. ** The operation mode (normal/quiet/suspended) now persists across Workrave sessions. ** Enver Altin translated Workrave into Turkish. ** Masanobu Yokota translated Workrave into Japanese. ** Ivan Dimov translated Workrave into Bulgarian. ** ORY Mate translated Workrave into Hungarian. ** Fixed KDE sound events (Phuah Yee Keat) ** Fixed Gnome sound events ** Fixed negative mouse usage when date is changed. ** Fixed text color on Gnome themes with dark backgrounds (i.e. high contrast inverse) ** Gnome applets now support transparency. ** The 'datadir' configuration option in workrave.ini can now be a relative path: [general] datadir=.\\Data This will store all Workrave data in the 'Data' directory below the Workrave root directory. (Note the double backslash) ** Daily limit now properly resets when hibernated. * Workrave 1.8.3 ** Daniel Nylander translated Workrave into Swedish. ** Jordi Mallach translated Workrave into Catalan. ** Support for storing configuration in a .ini file This feature can be enabled by creating an empty 'workrave.ini' file in '~/.workrave' (on Unix) or in 'c:\Program files\Workrave\etc' (on Window, assuming Workrave is installed in this directory) ** Support for configuring the data storage directory. Add the following two lines to your workrave.ini [general] datadir=C:\\Workrave\\Data This feature can be used to run Workrave from an USB memory stick. Note: On Windows, you have to use double backslashes like in the example above! ** Support for Gnome screen saver added (Matt Zimmerman). ** Workrave no longer consumes 100% CPU is if a break is started while the screen is locked. ** The applet popup menu is now accessible when all timers hidden. ** Fix czech translation (Jiri Palecek). ** Fixed a bug that could cause breaks to stop running when 'suspend timer while inactive' was disabled. * Workrave 1.8.2 ** Fixed a crash when a third party gtk runtime is used. ** Fixed bug that caused status windows to be disabled when the microbreak timer was hidden. ** Fixed translations. ** Better hibernate/standby support on Unix. ** System tray menu on Windows now disappears when focus is lost. * Workrave 1.8.1 ** Fixed a crash when blocking mode is set to 'none' * Workrave 1.8.0 ** Jon Otegi translated Workrave into Basque. ** Artūras Šlajus translated Workrave into Lithuanian. ** Morten Lunde translated Workrave into Norwegian. ** Juraj Kubelka translated Workrave into Czech. ** Haggai Eran translated Workrave into Hebrew. ** Workrave now gives additional feedback when becoming active during a break by flashing the break window border. ** Workrave now uses the system tray icon to visualize the current mode (normal, suspended or quiet). ** Added "Restbreak now" button to microbreak window. ** KDE improvements. Workrave now has a native KDE applet and supports KDE sound events. ** Decent tooltips for Workrave system tray icon. ** Miscellaneous distribution improvements. * Workrave 1.6.2 ** Added a Brazilian Portuguese translation, thanks to Claudio Ferreira Filho! ** Workrave now respects the "gtk-button-images" property. ** Upgraded GTK runtime to version 2.4, fixing some minor UI quirks. ** Fixed some high-profile bugs, especially activity monitoring problems when running X. * Workrave 1.6.1 ** A bug was introduced in version 1.6.0 which could cause the status window to disappear. Version 1.6.1 is only a minor bug fix release that addresses this problem. * Workrave 1.6.0 ** Workrave has been translated into Chinese thanks to Rex Tsai, into Russian thanks to Sergey Kirkinsky, and into French thanks to Thomas Basset and Benjamin Siband. ** The explanation of an exercise is now scrollable, if it does not fit onscreen. ** The Windows version now includes a taskbar applet version of the status window. After installation of Workrave, right click your taskbar and select "Workrave" from the list of toolbars. ** Timers can be configured to ignore activity. ** Bloat removal: removed the "Resets at" option from the daily limit panel. ** Exercises are no longer read at program startup, and are released from memory when not needed anymore. ** Terminology: we now use the term "micro-break" instead of "micro-pause". ** When block mode "Block all" is used, we display the break window on top of your current desktop background (wallpaper), instead of on a semi-transparent screen snapshot. ** Fixed screen locking on X11: previously only xlock was detected and used without passing a display parameter. Now, the proper screen lock command is invoked on the right display. For example, if KDE is detected its kdesktop_lock is executed. ** High-profile bug fixes (Windows): activity monitoring when working in Exceed has been restored, and ZoneLab interaction problems (hangups) have been corrected. * Workrave 1.4.1 ** Replaced the "Block input" setting (which was available per break) by a global "Block mode" setting, located in the GUI preferences. The available block modes are "None" (NEW: no input is blocked and break windows have a title bar and can be dragged), "Block input" (blocks input, break windows are fixed), "Block all" (NEW: blocks input and display). ** The Windows installer now offers the option to install Workrave using the standalone Dropline GTK+ runtime. For more information, see http://www.dropline.net/gtk/. ** Removed the "Force break after maximum preludes" option. It is now on by default. ** Some strings in the German translation were too long, fixed. ** Added multihead support for Windows. ** Improved suspend (to ram) support. Workrave now assumes that you are idle while suspended instead of assuming that no time passes. ** Improved multihead support. The status window is now automatically relocated when the monitor on which it is displayed is removed. It moved back to its original location when the monitor returns. ** Exercises navigation can now be used without causing Workrave to remove the break window and show the warning windows again. ** If supported by your system, the daily limit window includes a "Shut down" button. ** There now is a "Lock" button on the rest break, so that you can safely lock your display while you are taking breaks. If the daily limit window does not include the "Shut down" button, it includes the "Lock" button instead. * Workrave 1.4.0 ** Added exercises. ** Workrave has been translated to Polish, Danish and Spanish. Many thanks to Mikolaj Machowski, Christian Vejlbo, and Pablo Rodriguez! ** Multihead support for X11. Workrave now shows break windows on all monitors. ** Workrave can now cope with changes in system time and OS features like suspend-to-ram. ** Previously, the end time that showed up in the stats dialog equaled the time at which the clock reset (typically equal to the start of the next working day). This lead to weird from/to times, as in: "From 8:46 to 9:10". Fixed. ** Added an icon to the skip/postpone buttons on break windows. ** Many laptop pointer devices "drift" over time. This used to cause Workrave to detect activity when there was in fact none. Fixed, thanks to Chung-chieh Shan. ** On Windows, Workrave now notices when Explorer crashes and will try to reinsert the tray icon in the new Explorer taskbar that is created when Explorer restarts. ** Rewrote the user input blocking mechanism on Windows. You should no longer experience visual quirks (like flashing windows or unexpectedly focusing random windows) during breaks. ** On Linux, Workrave now notices when the gnome-panel crashes and will reinsert the applet in the new panel. ** The content of the status window can now be configured. ** Breaks can now be disabled. * Workrave 1.2.2 ** If you stopped working during a prelude just before it was about to disappear, the prelude would still go away because Workrave assumed you wanted to continue working. This behaviour has been changed now: if there is no activity when the count-down has reached zero, Workrave waits a couple of seconds to see if you are really idle. If that is the case, a break window appears. If not, you can continue working. ** Redesigned the preferences panel. It used to have nested tabs, these have been replaced with an icon shortcut bar. ** The break windows have been given a title. ** The Window version now included GTK-Wimp. This makes the visual appearance of Workrave blend much better into the Windows desktop environment (http://gtk-wimp.sourceforge.net). ** Beter support for Gnome session management. Workrave is now properly restarted by the gnome session manager. ** The applet can now be configured to show only the Workrave sheep. Clicking on the sheep will toggle the visibility of the main window. * Workrave 1.2.1 ** Some errors in the build process have been fixed. Only a new source tarball is released, as this does not effect binary releases. * Workrave 1.2.0 ** Johannes Rohr provided a german translation, thanks! ** Added applet support. Workrave now supports both a native Gnome applet, as well as a system tray applet that *should* also work on KDE. ** Added statistics. Workrave shows break statistics and daily usage. More statistics will be added later. ** A leaflet promoting Workrave is now available. Please spread it as far as possible. For example, distribute several copies at the office. (http://workrave.sourceforge.net/leaflet/) ** Last but absolutely not least: increased sheep size in the about window. :) * Workrave 1.0.0 ** Removed the monitoring preferences. Good defaults is all you want here, and it was far too difficult to try and explain these settings to ordinary users. ** Added the daily limit break window. ** Added internationalisation support. Currently, only a Dutch translation is provided. We are still looking for volunteers to translate Workrave into other languages. ** The "Collective" has been renamed to "Network", which is far more meaningful to non-geek users. ** A network log window has been added. This window shows informational messages about the communication between different Workrave instances. * Workrave 0.3.0 ** Added experimental(!) distribution support, dubbed "The Collective". What this means is that you can now create a network of Workrave instances running on several computers. All instances that are part of "the collective" share the same timer information, meaning that if one computer informs you to take a break, it is futile to flee to another computer as it will also tell you to take a break. ** Added sound support. You can configure the samples that are played through the standard sound control panel provided by Gnome and Windows. For office PCs that do not have a sound card, you can choose to play sounds through the internal PC speaker. ** The window prompting you to brake now moves earlier to the top of the screen so that it does not interfere too much. Furthermore, the window has a new and improved "evasive manouvers" algorithm. * Workrave 0.2.0 ** Activity during a persisted break is no longer ignored. Instead, the timer is stopped whenefer the user is active. ** Microsoft Windows specific changes *** Added taskbar tray support. When the main window is closed, the program remains active in the tray. In the user interface preferences, you can select to hide the program when started. *** The main window is now opened at the position where it was during the last program exit. * Workrave 0.1.0 ** First public release. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Copyright information: Copyright (C) 2001-2007 Rob Caelers & Raymond Penners Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies of this document as received, in any medium, provided that the copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved, thus giving the recipient permission to redistribute in turn. Permission is granted to distribute modified versions of this document, or of portions of it, under the above conditions, provided also that they carry prominent notices stating who last changed them. Local variables: mode: outline paragraph-separate: "[ ]*$" end: