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Development Log July 2007

01/01/2010

Sixth Alpha Release


0.8.0-alpha6 is released!
Category: General
Posted by: JustinClift

After nearly 9 months of development, the new Salasaga 0.8.0-alpha 6 release is ready.

This is a huge milestone release for Salasaga, the first time the basic form and function of the application is in place and working properly.

Salasaga 0.8.0-Alpha 6
 
* Added a status bar icon, with a right click menu for taking screenshots and various actions.
* The default width and height for new projects is whatever width and height was last used.
* The control bar in swf output is much better looking, now finally of acceptable quality.
* The user is now always given the option to Cancel in the application quit dialog.
* Layers can now be moved both partially or completely off the visible slide area.
* Added a "screenshot delay" preference, in seconds, which can range from 0 to 60.
* Changed the status bar to a progress bar, updating many functions to use it.
* Added an additional output resolution 600x400, requested by Guy Rageot.
* Visual notification messages are now shown when screenshots are taken.
* Pressing the delete key while a slide or layer is selected deletes it.
* Removed support for loading extremely old project file formats (<4.0).
* Slides in the film strip can be reordered by dragging with the mouse.
* Updated the text layer dialog to display with the chosen attributes.
* The Control-Printscreen screenshot key is now set for Compiz users.
* Rounded the corners of text boxes, both onscreen and in swf output.
* Several minor improvements for the time line area.
* Swapped the ordering of the Cancel and OK buttons.
* Text layers can now be any of the DejaVu fonts.
* Centered selected slide in the workspace area.
* Updated to include DejaVu release 2.30.
* Updated to work on Centos 5.3/5.4.
* Added a dependency on libnotify.
* Added a title bar icon.
* Many minor bug fixes.

  Plus many translations, due to the hard work and many hours of effort of translators:

  Language                                      % complete       Translators

  French (fr)                                      100%                 Arnaud Bonatti, Philippe DUBRULLE, Pierre Couillard
  Greek (el)                                       100%                 Yannis Kaskamanidis
  Spanish (es)                                   100%                Javier Bolaños, Luis Díaz, Maxwell Draven (Ravenman)
  English (Australia) (en_AU)             100%                Justin Clift (me)
  English (United Kingdom) (en_GB)  100%               Justin Clift (me), Matthew Gall
  Galician (gl)                                       97%               Manuel Meixide
  Filipino (fil)                                         87%               Kezia Lounel Badulid
  Bulgarian (bg)                                   76%               Anton Kerezov (Dilomo), Svetoslav Stefanov
  Italian (it)                                           72%               Gerry Sicignano (Cercatore), Carlo Stemberger (Stemby)
  Portuguese (pt)                                 60%               Carlos Fernando Martins
  Brazilian Portuguese (pt_BR)            29%               Cristiano Bernardo, Rafael Porto Rodrigues, Vagner K. Dos Santos, Victor Westmann
  Russian (ru)                                      25%                Andrew Sidun
  Romanian (ro)                                   20%               Doru Horișco
  Arabic (ar)                                         11%               عبد الله شلي (Abdellah Chelli)
  Chinese (Simplified) (zh_CN)               7%               Chen Ming
  Turkish (tr)                                           5%              "linuxseven"
  Catalan (ca)                                        2%               Vicent Cubells
  Norwegian Bokmal (nb)                     <1%               Olav Horpestad

  Bugs fixed in this release

  Bug # 246774 - Layer transition info not being kept
  Bug # 301070 - OK and Cancel need to be switched about
  Bug # 301072 - Option to scale project to screenshot size
  Bug # 315731 - Crash/image distortion on changing the zoom level
  Bug # 361019 - no icons for all windows of salasaga
  Bug # 480491 - Some characters not being displayed correctly in the working area
  Bug # 492388 - Cannot edit new text
  Bug # 493312 - Cannot use keyboard to delete layer

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