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v1.0.1

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@github-actions github-actions released this 14 Sep 21:24
  • Windows 10 and 11: run lexiglance-windows-setup.exe. It needs no administrator rights and opens Lexiglance when it is done. lexiglance-windows-portable.zip is the same without installing.

  • Linux: make lexiglance-x86_64.AppImage executable and run it, or install lexiglance-amd64.deb on Debian and Ubuntu.

  • Windows: PaddleOCR no longer fails after Download PaddleOCR with "Unsupported model IR version: 10, max
    supported IR version: 9". Lexiglance used the older ONNX Runtime that Windows keeps for itself; it now uses only the
    one it downloads. On Linux too, OCR downloaded while Lexiglance runs works without restarting it.

  • Help: on the first start, a short card lists what you can do and where. Help, at the bottom left, shows it
    again.

  • Overview -> Startup -> Also start this window, hidden in the tray: the settings application starts at login as a
    tray icon.

  • Every page updates as things change: OCR's state right after a download, the health checks, About, and Anki when it
    starts or closes. No need to switch pages.

  • The mouse wheel scrolls every page again; before, it did nothing until a page's scroll bar had been clicked.

  • Downloads show one steady progress bar with the sizes on it, instead of text that jumped between files.

  • Updates: Overview -> Updates installs the newest release (Update to …, or Reinstall … when this is
    already it) and, unless turned off, does so on its own. Each copy gets the build it was installed from: the Windows
    setup, the portable .zip, the AppImage or the .deb (which asks for your password), checked against the release's
    SHA256SUMS, then Lexiglance opens again.

v1.0.0

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@github-actions github-actions released this 14 Sep 19:28
  • Windows 10 and 11: run lexiglance-windows-setup.exe. It needs no administrator rights and opens Lexiglance when it is done. lexiglance-windows-portable.zip is the same without installing.
  • Linux: make lexiglance-x86_64.AppImage executable and run it, or install lexiglance-amd64.deb on Debian and Ubuntu.

First public release.

  • System-wide pop-up dictionary for Linux (X11) and Windows 10 and 11: hold the trigger keys and point at a word in any
    application.
  • Japanese, Russian, Ukrainian, Korean and Greek. Each language is a JSON file, and you can
    add your own without rebuilding.
  • Yomitan dictionaries, compiled into memory-mapped indexes for lookups in microseconds. Recommended dictionaries for
    each language install in one click.
  • Finds inflected words: about 400 Japanese and 500 Russian rules, plus the inflected forms Wiktionary dictionaries
    list.
  • Reads text through accessibility (AT-SPI, UI Automation), or with OCR (PaddleOCR or Tesseract) in games, images and
    videos.
  • Pronunciations from JapanesePod101, Wikimedia Commons or a custom server, and Anki cards through AnkiConnect.
  • Popup designs, colour schemes, themes and highlight styles.
  • A health check that finds problems and offers fixes.
  • lexiglancectl for scripts, and service files for systemd, runit, OpenRC, dinit, s6 and XDG autostart.