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06-Apr-2020 Release 4.0.3
- Move help folder to a more standard path.
Upgrading
From version 2.2.0 - You need to edit your existing configuration file as explained in the 2.3.0 release announcement.
From an earlier version - You need to edit your existing configuration file as explained in the 2.2.0 release announcement.
See release announcements and commit history.
24-Jan-2019 Release 4.0.2
- Fix: Selected command not started (involves plugin use only).
13-Jan-2019 Release 4.0.1
Recommended upgrade for all users.
- Critical fix: Built-in fuzzy search displays no results if only search-filenames is enabled in default configuration.
- Fix: Built-in fuzzy search used even though disabled on pristine start.
- Fix: Fuzzy search engine choice displayed incorrectly in About dialog text.
- Update: user documentation and translation template.
3-Jan-2019 Release 4.0.0
Release highlights: * Faster, better, alternative fuzzy and exact search engine using the optional fzf external binary. * Now plugins can call the built-in and fzf search engines.
- New: integrate external search engine
fzf
for exact and fuzzy search - New: start-up dialog to download/install
fzf
- New: user preference
TERMINAL_PROGRAM
(defaultterm) - Change: UI rename "Consider word case" to "A ≠ a"
- Change: UI "Show all icons" and "A ≠ a" swap places
- Change: Toggling "A ≠ a" no longer requires a restart
- Change: Toggling search details no longer requires a restart when
fzf
is used - Fix:
findnrun-formatter -s
splits lines on spaces - Fix: Run in terminal saves history to
.hist-
instead of.hist-$ID
- Fix: Null
FNR*
variables when saving drain invocation history - Update: credits
- Update: user and plugin documentation
- Update: translation template
- Plugin: New: plugins can call the built-in and fzf search engines
- Plugin: New: plugin Helper Functions
- Dev: extend help system to allow directly opening any markdown file
16-Dec-2018 Release 3.1.0
Release highlights: A new fuzzy search mode (off by default), a new configurable hotkey F6, and a configuration menu that reveals all previously hidden settings (hotkey re-assignment is still hidden in the configuration file ~/.findnrunrc
). Press [F10]
in the main window to see hoteys settings. Press [F10]
again to access the configuration menu, or click the new menu symbol "☰".
- New: add fuzzy search (SEARCHFUZZY setting), off by default
- New: add Options menu.
- New: fuzzy search checkbox in the main window
- New: hidden setting
FUZZY_MATCH_FIELD_BONUS
- New: hotkey
F6
clears the search input field - Change: remove user setting SEARCHCOMPLETE
- Fix: work around "&" in .desktop comment field
- Fix: did not show icon for
.DirIcon
files - Fix: restart did not reset the search input field
- Update: screenshots
- Update: credits
- Update: user and plugin documentation
- Update: translation template
- Plugin dev: update
findnrun-formatter
- Dev: add desktop file lister (debug level 1)
19-Oct-2018 Release 3.0.0
- Faster program start.
- Huge speed increase "Showing all icons".
- New: Dash compatible out-of-the-box (sh, bash and ash too).
- New: Hotkey help - hotkey F10 lists hotkey assignments.
- New: Save results - hotkey F4 saves search results to a file or command pipe defined via
RDR
in file ~/.findnrunrc. - New: Run in terminal - hotkey F5 starts selected item in a terminal window.
- New: Run in terminal - UI button to run command entry field in a terminal window.
- New: Icon theme support - icons honor the GTK2 icon theme, if any, e.g. in file ~/.gtkrc-2.0: `gtk-icon-theme-name="Clarity"
- New: Icon theme support - override GTK2 icon them with new preference
GTK_ICON_THEME_NAME
in file ~/.findnrunrc. - New: Source property - Add
INIT_<source>
to built-in and plugin source declarations. - New: display fallback icon when no app icon exists.
- New: Allow icon names (not just paths) for built-in and plugin sources.
- Changed: Move icons from /usr/share/doc/findnrun to /usr/share/icons.
- Changed: Use icon name 'findnrun' for all sub-windows but Help.
- Changed: Reject non-
Type=Application
.desktop files. - Changed: Variables XCLIP (preferences.md) and FNRSAVEFLT (plugin-dev.md) are no longer supported.
- Fix: No window auto-close after hotkey F12.
- Fix: wrong
XDG_DATA_HOME
initialization. - Fix:
yad --progress
still visible after main window exit. - Fix: Regex search fails for Shell Completion source.
- Several UI messages added and changed (translations needed).
- Help and documentation files updated (translations needed).
- i18n translation template (.pot file) updated.
- Plugins: New
INIT_<source>
, Saving Search Results.
24-Aug-2018 Release 2.5.0
- Faster application start thanks to new translation lookup method, new icon caching algorithm, and optimized plugin validation.
- New progress dialog for long scans.
- Change: yad replaces Xdialog for sub-dialogs.
- Updated "de" (63%) and "it" (100%) translations.
- Fix: single quote in plugin code was invalid.
- Fix: some documentation typos.
- New translation tools.
13-Sep-2017 Release 2.4.1
- updates the German translation.
6-Sep-2016 Release 2.4.0
- is a recommended feature upgrade for all users.
1-Aug-2016 Release 2.3.0
- is a recommended feature upgrade for all users.
13-Jun-2016 Release 2.2.0
- is a recommended feature upgrade for all users.
25-Apr-2016 Release 2.1.1
- is a recommended upgrade for all users.
11-Mar-2016 Release 2.1.0
- is a recommended upgrade for all users.
23-Jan-2016 Release 2.0.0
- adds plugins and new features!
4-Sep-2015 Version 1.10.6 runs on Lubuntu:
18-Jun-2015
- As of version 1.10.5 this script replaces the original Find'N'Run