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v0.11.0 (beta) — backgrounds, Evergreen shelves

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@benddailey benddailey released this 07 Nov 16:44
v0.11.0
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What's new

  • Backgrounds. Theme at the top of the screen now opens a menu with two choices: Light or Dark, and a Background. Evergreen shelves shows a bookshelf with one book for each Evergreen Indiana library, sized by the population it serves. There are also 12 photos of famous libraries. Each PC remembers its own choice.
  • Photo backgrounds download once. The photos are not in the file. The first time a PC opens the app while online, it downloads them (about 5 MB) from GitHub and keeps them, so they are there during an outage. Open the app once on each PC before an outage. With no internet and nothing downloaded, the menu offers None and Evergreen shelves. Nothing about your sessions or patrons is sent. Every photo is credited in THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES.txt, and the menu credits the one in use.
  • Move the panel. With a background, drag the middle panel by its edge or any empty space in it, for example to uncover your library's book. Double-click that space to put it back. It always stays inside the window.
  • One-row status bar. The buttons are on the left, and the session, clerk and totals on the right. It wraps only on narrow windows. Finish patron first now appears beside End patron, so the scan field never moves when a patron starts.
  • Sessions kept safer. The app asks Chrome to keep its sessions even when the disk is nearly full. Chrome decides for itself and may not agree.

Install

Updating a PC that already has the shortcuts: extract the new zip and run the setup script for that system. Sessions, the printer and the workstation name are kept. New desk PC: follow Setting up a desk PC in README.txt (in the zip). offline-checkout.html is also attached on its own for PCs set up by hand: copy it over the old file.

Sessions are kept: there is no change to how sessions are stored (the photos use a separate store). The pairing format is still OC3 and no session records changed, so 0.11.0 and 0.10.0 desks work together. Keeping every desk PC on the same release is still the advice. Don't update during an outage.

SHA-256:

  • offline-checkout.html: c7195d12eca49d287606969db4be12db89ec194d4303f249c39ea6eece3611b9
  • offline-checkout-v0.11.0.zip: 5d0970c44ab5e76e29b33dbcc813b4a84f90018fc55c731b4e791f1814115fc8

Beta

This is a beta. The scanner, camera and connection code has not changed in this release, so it adds no field probe re-run, but the checks listed for 0.7.0, 0.8.0 and 0.9.0 still apply.

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