StarCalendar 3.2.2

Changes since StarCalendar 3.2.1

Changes to dependecies

• Mark Python 3.11 as supported

General bug fixes

• Window Controller: handle bad bg color from user theme, and fallback to dark mode
• Fix Label Box not hiding when unchecked/disabled from Customize dialog
• Fix bug in WeekMonthEventRule: bad/missing conflict list
• Fix failing tests for Hijri calendar

Installers' bug fixes

• Fix install-pip: change python-igraph to igraph
• Fix distro/base/install.py (used for BSD and Slackware) in cleanup step
• Fix distro/base/install.sh: missing quotes
• Fix uninstall : it just exited after parsing args, also fix shellcheck errors

Regional support

• Update hijri months for 1403 calendar
• Update plugins data based on 1403 calendar

License

• Change license from GPL to AGPL (Affero GPL)

StarCalendar 3.2.1

Changes since StarCalendar 3.2.0

• Update Hijri months, #71
• Debian installer: add python3-pkg-resources to dependencies
• Fedora installer: add python3-setuptools to dependencies
• SUSE installer: add python3-setuptools to dependencies
• install-pip: add setuptools
• distro/base/install.sh: cleanup all *.pkg.* files

StarCalendar 3.2.0

Changes since StarCalendar 3.1.13

New icon/logo

• SVG (scalable), made with Inkscape

Major changes in Main Window and Customize window

• Add "Right Panel" to see user events and plugins' text

  • In Persian, it's located on the left, so it's translated to "Left Panel"
  • You can still disable Right Panel, and enable Events and Plugins below the calendar

• Re-design the layout of "Customize" window

  • Use a mix of vertical and horizontal layout for root widgets (first page of "Customize")
  • Allows Customize window to be smaller and work in smaller screens
  • Avoid automatically resizing Customize window
  • Improves the UX, and allows better use of space
  • Pagination similar to familiar UX of tablets and smart phones

• Allow freely resizing main window

  • In previous versions user could not resize the window vertically
    • User had to change the height of Month/Week/Day Calendars in Customize window
  • Month/Week/Day Calendars are expanded when window is resized
  • Height option is no longer needed and removed from Month/Week/Day Calendars

• Rewrite Events view widget (below calendar and in Right Panel), with some new features

  • It was a GtkHBox with many children, not it's only one GtkTreeView
  • Allow customizing separator between summary and decription of event
  • Add "Copy Event Text" item to right-click menu

Re-design Preferences window and Customize window

• Split everything into multiple pages (using Gtk.Stack)
• Makes the UX much better
• Organizes the options better
• Makes the window smaller, and compatible with smaller screens
• Becomes more similar to touchscreen operating systems
• Can switch to parent page by pressing Backspace (equal to "Back" button)

Add Day Calendar Window, aka "Desktop Widget"

• To use as a desktop widget, and alternative for status icon
• Plus the Customize window for it
• Add option to Preferences:
  General -> [ ] Open desktop widget on start

More features and options for Day Calendar as part of Main Window

• Most of the code is shared with Desktop Widget
• Options of Customize window are mostly the same, but values are independent
  • i.e. changing options of one does not effect the other
• New features (both in main window desktop widget)
  • Allow enabling week day name
    • With "Abbreviate" and "Uppercase" checkbox options
  • Show buttons to go to previous day, today and next day

Time Line: Features, improvements and refactoring

• Add Preferences for Time Line
• Add 3 buttons (left, right, stop) for controlling movement in time
• Fix/improve animation
• Minor features / improvements:
  • Show helper line on button-press when moving/resizing event box
  • Add a zoom icon that opens to menu to jump to specific round zoom levels

Window Controller: switch to svg, and add more options

• Allow customizing the size of icons (since svg is scalable)
• Allow customizing border (around buttons) and spacing (between buttons)
• Add a button to show/hide Right Panel

Replace most of .png icons with scalabale .svg icons

• Add .svg icons for some menu items and button without icon
• Add support for svg images in some parts of program that lacked support

Minor features and improvements

• Month Calendar: allow disabling day numbers of non-primary cal types
• Event Manager -> Import Events -> Switch to Stack (like Customize)
• Rename sub-menu "Add to" to "Add Event to" in day right-click menu
• Some optimization in Week Calendar
• Preferences -> Appearance -> Status Icon -> click on image selector button
  • Add preview in File Chooser dialog
• Replace "Font Family" chooser widget
  • It was a ComboBox, not it opens a dialog that allows search on type and shows preview
  • Used in Week Calendar customize options, and Status Icon preferences
• WeekCal: add Customize option to enable "Row Gradient" (as replacement for grid lines)

Switch away from Gtk's deprecated APIs and fix deprecation warnings

• Widget constructor calls with non-keyword arguments
• Gtk stock items (switch to icon names)
• height-request and width-request properties
• Gtk.HButtonBox
• Gtk.FontButton.get_font_name
• Gdk.Window.get_pointer
• Gdk.Window.cairo_create
• Gtk.Label.set_alignment
• Gtk.Dialog(buttons=...)
• Gtk.FileChooserButton.new_with_dialog
• ResourceWarning: unclosed file ... on open(...).read() and open(...).write(...)

Changes in package dependencies:

• Drop support for python3.5 to python3.7
  • Now only support python3.8 or later
• Depend on python3-gi >= 3.24
  • Because Gtk.FontChooser.set_level is added in version 3.24
• Optional dependency to gtksource-4 / gtksourceview4
• Optional dependency to ntpdate
• Optional dependency to python3-pygit2

Improvements in install scripts:

• Move all scripts to distro directory

  • Create symbolic links (to install-*) to keep compatibility

• Add install-auto.sh which automatically detects distribution

• Debian:

  • Add postrm script
    • to completely clean up /usr/share/starcal3 after package removal
  • Use apt instead of gdebi to install the package
    • Fallback to dpkg -i if apt was not found
    • If dpkg -i failed, run apt-get -f install to fix broken dependencies

• Add installers for FreeBSD, MidnightBSD, Alma Linux

• Update install-windows.bat

Switch from %-formatting to f-strings (added in python3.6)

• Use str.format for localized strings

Switch to Python's logging completely (no more print)

Add types and comments

Refactoring, cleaning, removing some legacy code and PEP-8 fixes

Add compatibilty with official Islamic calendar 1423 - 1426

StarCalendar 3.1.13

Changes since StarCalendar 3.1.12

Updates in plugins and localization

• b3522a9 Update plugins according to Iranian calendar 1401
• 00d1ece Fix Ramadan 1432
• 2008f30 Update Hijri months, with tests
• c7e32fe Update plugins/iran-gregorian-2-data.txt
• d86177e Fix typo in plugins/iran-hijri-data.txt
• fe37590 Plugins: remove duplicates and extra space
• c92fe13 Plugins: remove some comments
• f4df32a Pray Times: Location Dialog: allow 6 digits precision for lat/lng
• d8d6359 Fix typo in locale.d/fa.po

Bug fixes and improvements

• d3705f2 Export to HTML: change event seperator
• ce906e3 Adjust System Time: prevent exception when window icon is not found in theme
• ec1c8f6 set isMaximized = False when start resizing main window after maximized
• ca2a5c4 Add support for Slackware in timezone library
  • or any other distro where /etc/localtime is not symlink

Improvements in install scripts

• fcc1e52 update install-pip
• 2e951e3 install-pip: try to install pip with ensurepip
• a8c88f5 install-pip: make compatible with freebsd
• 306e84f install-archlinux: install fakeroot and binutils if needed
• 8dea7df install: add --system flag for other distros like Slackware
• 264b12e fix install --portable
• 085b241 install: remove uninstall script if building distro package
• 15ae9b1 install-debian: use apt-get install --reinstall
• 11c7757 fix detecting openSUSE in install script
• ab1c288 add install-nix-deps and install-nutyx
• c36928b Fix shebang of bash scripts for other unix-like operating systems

Improvements and refactoring in version handling

• d2cd486 scal3/core.py: fix git-based version to be standard PEP 440
• e322274 Replace scal3/get_version.py with scripts/version in distro installers
• 99c4279 Add scripts/version.py and use it as fallback in install script
• 26c529b Fix/rewrite scripts/version.py to handle git versions
• eb3fad9 Make scripts/version.py compatible with Python 3.5

StarCalendar 3.1.12

Changes since StarCalendar 3.1.11

• Add support for Python 3.10

• Fix critical bug in Monthly Event

• Fix bug of sorting events in a group by first occurrence

• Fix VCS event groups:

  • Fix non-working scal3/vcs_modules/git.py, switch to pygit2
  • Add pygit2 as optional dependency
  • Add vcsBranch property and some more fixes

• Fix bug of duplicating periodic events

• Fix non-working feature: University Term -> Weekly Schedule -> Export to SVG

• Changes in installer scripts:

  • Add pycairo (python3-cairo) to Debian and pip dependencies
  • install-debian: change python dependency to python3(>=3.5), fix #67
  • More improvement in install-debian

• Improvements in some GUI dialogs

• Update README.md

• Forward-compatibility (with next branch):

  • Add lifetime as alias to lifeTime event group (renamed in next branch)
  • Add pixmaps/event/green_clover.png file

StarCalendar 3.1.11

Changes since StarCalendar 3.1.10

• Fix compatibility with FreeBSD
• Fix error message in install-fedora and install-suse
• Minor improvement in Search Events
• Add "Search Events" icon to Main Window toolbar
• Update Hijri months based on Iranian official calendar for 1400
• Update Iran's plugins based on Iranian official calendar for 1400
• Minor improvements in Persian translations
• Update Indian national month names
• Add Persian translation for Indian month names

StarCalendar 3.1.10

Changes since StarCalendar 3.1.9

• Fix install-pip: install python-igraph, not igraph
• Fix incompatibility with Python 3.5 because of f-string in event_lib.py, #60
• Fix non-effective cache for events
  • Caused by commit 295190a, introduced in version 3.1.0
• Avoid printing timezone name with --version
• install-fedora: add python 3.8, and fix shebang error on libs/bson/setup.py
• install-suse: add python 3.8, and fix error

StarCalendar 3.1.9

Changes since StarCalendar 3.1.8

• Fix incompatibility with latest packages in some Linux distros

  • Rename 2button-press to double-button-press, and prevent exception when create or emit signal
    • Fix exception in Debian testing with gtk 3.24.14 and gi 3.34.0
  • Always pass -1 arg to layout.set_markup and set_text
    • Fixes exception in Fedora 29

• Fix running git fetch commands with root in install scripts (when run script with sudo)

  • Also give -f flag to git fetch

• install-debian: Add support for python3.8

• install-pip: make executable

StarCalendar 3.1.8

Changes since StarCalendar 3.1.7

• Update Hijri/Islamic calendar months and Iran's plugins based on Iranian official calendar for 1399

  • Also add some additional events to non-official plugins

• Pray Times Config: fix major bug of window destroyed on Escape / Close window

• Fix minor bug in Main Window: quit function was called twice

• Compatibility with next branch

  • Handle event icon *.svg
  • Enable 3 deleted main win items based on config from next branch

• Improve install scripts:

  • fetch tags before getting version in distro installers
  • remove --tags arg from git describe to avoid using lightweight tags now that all release tags are annotated

• Fixes and improvements in Event Manager

  • LifeTimeEvent: fix default end date
  • Event Manager: keep TreeIter of event that is going to be pasted, since path may change before paste
  • event_lib.py: WeeklyEvent: add setJd to fix default start and end on Add Event (Event Editor Dialog)

• Cleanups:

  • .gitignore: add screenshots
  • install-debian: remove FIXME
  • remove 'branch' file
  • README.md: Home Page: change http to https

StarCalendar 3.1.7

• Important bug fix in install script

  • Fix removing these files from the entire file system, if ran install directly
    • .hidden,
    • *~
    • *.pyc *.pyo __pycache__
    • *.tar.xz *.tar.gz
    • *.deb *.rpm *.spec
  • Do not clean up files at all if ran install directly
  • Prevent running install directly by user for 5 natively-supported distros
  • Minimize the diff with next branch

• Fix non-working GUI for event rule [Exception] Date ("ex_dates")

• Fix possible bug in event.changeMode, and missing import numRangesEncode

• Fix possible exception in gtk_ud.py when there is no default screen (very rare)

• Fix potential bug: jsonTimeFromEpoch function must always return UTC time