The start-time is a bit improved - or a alot, depending on your situation. If, like me, you got several partitions completely on your “ignore list” (for me those are ones with the checked out source of dozens and dozens of Haiku applications, and my HaikuPorts partition), QuickLaunch now doesn’t even query those. Meaning they also don’t slow down the building of the “all-apps-list” at launch.
Nice, but probably not even noticable, because it’s quick enough anyway…
I also fixed an oversight that resulted of every filtering being done twice! That also fixed a little graphical glitch when a large list of apps is shown, like if you enter “*” to show all applications.
More interesting, however, is the new feature that allows you to drop any file - not just an application - into your favourites list. Those non-apps are tinted green to distinguish them quickly:
This gives you quick access to often needed documents, like the BeBook or the BeOSBible’s scripting chapters, or a folder like Tracker’s ~/config/settings/Tracker/Go with all your favourites.
The big new feature is that you’re not limited to one fixed file with all your accounts and transactions any more. You can create several so-called “ledgers”, for example for different persons, businesses or projects.
The GUI is still pretty much the same:
The whole changelog:
Introduce “ledgers” to separate bookkeeping for multiple persons/projects
Keep a list of recent ledgers in “Open ledger…” submenu
Added “CapitalBe ledger” MIME type
Allow double-clicking and drag&drop of “CapitalBe ledger” files
Rename “File” to “Ledger” menu and move “Categories” there
Let the Zoom button maximize the window vertically
Still allow transaction dates of the future, but mark them “invalid”
Fix QIF im/export
Bugfixes
Updated documentation
Updated translations
[ETA: I forgot to give a shoutout to @korli, who found and fixed crashes I’d probably wouldn’t have figured out to this day…
Also, beware, I just found out that CapitalBe hates non-ASCII characters in payee and categories. Öhhh, ähhh, needs fixing if I find the issue…]
[ETA2: @korli already fixed the öhh, ähhh, Ümläüt issue! Thanks!]
I found some time to get one of my toy projects ready for a first release. WindowTailor allows you to manage the properties of any currently open window. It is designed to be launched by keyboard shortcut using the Shortcuts preference application. Setting up a shortcut without any extra command arguments will open the interface and allow you to manage the currently active window.
Tiling is still in the experimental phase and needs work on calculating sizes better.
EDIT: if there are glitches in the GUI, the next could smooth some things out, I guess there still could be fome fixing needed in the Kirigami package (haven’t found a way so far), I don’t have this atm in KF6 6.8.0.
Add: export KIRIGAMI_LOWPOWER_HARDWARE=1 to ~/config/settings/profile file.
QuickLaunch v1.8 is out. Most visible change is that the GUI lost the Help and Setup buttons, but grew a regular menu bar:
As always when the GUI changes after over a decade, some won’t love it at the beginning. I, too, got used to the old look…
OTOH, the new menu has advantages. The biggest is the new “Temporary options” menu. With it you can quickly toggle showing path (ALT+P) or version(ALT+V) , ignore the ignore list (ALT+I) or searching anywhere in an app name (ALT+S) . All while keeping the default settings when you start QuickLaunch next time.
Some shortcuts had to be moved around to make the above most intuitive. As I, you’ll get used to it…
Quick shoutout to @madmax who contributed some nice patches and bugfixes!
argh, missing dep on qqc2-desktop-style (for KF6), I’ll fix that in a bit (doing some checking on another package atm), for now if you install the package qqc2_desktop_style6 it should be fixed (if I didn’t miss another one).
Thanks for reporting!
Thanks!]
