Release Version 675 · hydrusnetwork/hydrus

misc

the command palette will now not highlight an item if the initial results list opens underneath the mouse. I'm trying to resolve a common annoyance here, but I don't use this much IRL, so let me know how this feels to you
the new 'recognise an unmounted NAS as similar to a missing path on boot' error catching now detects a locked bitlocker drive on Windows. updated the UI text in the dialogs around this, too
fixed an unhelpful old status check that said 'if all network traffic is paused, repository sync maintenance daemon will not work', which was blocking local-only repo processing
added a link to 'Hydrus Slideshow Frame', a user-made KDE Plasma Widget for a hydrus photo/slideshow frame, to the Client API help (https://github.com/apampurin/hydrus-slideshow)

A hydrus user created a bunch of great 'Nereid' stylesheets right here: https://github.com/6788-00/nereid-theme-hydrus . these are now rolled into hydrus by default
for stylesheet creators, I had an idea how to fix the external asset relative/absolute path problems we've had. I have written a test and would love to have some feedback on Windows and macOS. To do the test--
- create/copy a new stylesheet into your db/static/qss folder. change any 'url' paths from any existing url("path/to/my/db/static/qss/blah/my_image.svg"), to url("static/qss/blah/my_image.svg), as if it were loading from and relative to the install dir. if you are copying from the install qss dir, maybe the paths are already in this format
- hit up help->debug->debug modes->qss absolute path test mode
- load your QSS file in the options->style section. ok the dialog if you need to hunt around for an asset. did the assets load ok?
let me know how it went. in that test mode, I detect paths in the normalised format and swap them with the absolutes on load. if things worked multiplat, I'll make this normal behaviour and this problem is fixed

a user has rewritten my ancient old thumbnail grid to a new Qt-nice rendering system. I really appreciate his work. I have integrated his code as a new test, and early results are very promising
it is not ready for normal use yet and still has bugs/jank. it is under options->thumbnails as an EXPERIMENTAL TEST, DO NOT CLICK checkbox
I'll keep working on this, but as it matures, we should have masonry layouts, vertical grids, more dynamic thumbnail sizes, and all sorts, all in a nicer drawing system with more animation options and so on. some bad old design ideas are being swept away at the same time

if twisted (the networking library we use to host a server) fails to un-set the current hosting services on program close, the error is now printed to log. previously it was silenced. I'm narrowing down on a 'the program seemed to shut down but the process is still alive' issue, and I think it might be an overloaded/deadlocked Client API doing it
updated the 'help my db is broke' file a little regarding clone vs repair
fixed a note in the example .desktop file
did some misc linting
fixed missing executable permissions on the scripts in the main repo. sorry for the long-time problem here

just as a side thing, over my vacation I moved to a new dev machine. I'm finally on Linux to dev. I took the opportunity to rework my very messy dev environment and personal workflow and note-taking. my situation is far less stupid now, with a sensible and pleasant IDE connection to the github repo, a browser not overflowing with tabs, and a zeroed-out desktop and daily todo and such. I've got dozens of pages of overflowing note mess to still slowly work through, but I'm going to devote some specific sunday work time to project management and try to stay on top of it going forward!