“It is a cliche in our business that the first 90 percent of the work is easy, the second 90 percent wears you down, and the last 90 percent — the attention to detail — makes a good product.” Ron Avitzur, The Graphing Calculator Story
Version 0.9.29 (download link) has many changes compared to version 0.9.28. The most important changes arise from issues pointed out in the survey. Not all suggestions from the survey were able to be implemented due to lack of time. A list of improvements highlighted by the survey that still need to be implemented can be found here, with more to be added in the coming weeks as I work through the survey results.
The install script makes some meaningful changes too. These changes mean that running the in-place upgrade is not appropriate.
Please report any problems as soon as practical. My hope is that this version or 0.9.30 will make it into Ubuntu 22.04.
-
Fix bug #53: Adapt to small screens. Rapid Photo Downloader can now be resized to fit to
tiny screens. Part of the fix involves changes in the ways the download
sources (Devices and This Computer) and the Timeline are placed in the
left-side of the user interface. When a scroll bar is necessary to fit in
these interface elements, a single scroll bar will now extend from the
Devices to the Timeline. When you scroll down to view the entirety of the
Timeline, if the Timeline is big enough the download sources will scroll up
out of sight. -
Change the button to synchronize scrolling between the Timeline and
thumbnails to a double arrow. It now changes color to reflect its state. The
button’s behavior is described in the documentation. -
Make the Timeline remember its position when the time elapsed between
consecutive shots is changed using the slider. -
Make the user interface look cleaner and more consistent, especially
regarding scrollbars and frames. -
Enforce the use of the Qt 5 Fusion theme. Some Linux distribution Qt 5
themes can make the program’s user interface look bad because of differing
assumptions about design elements like scroll bars and frames. If you want
to use your system’s theme, use the command line option
--force-system-theme. -
Fix bug where various user interface elements would effectively be invisible
when the system theme is dark, also known as “dark mode”. Please note
dark mode will likely work in the program only if the PyQt5 package
provided by your Linux distribution is being used. -
Fix bugs #61, #58, and #1958892: setuptools >= 60.0 failing. Some versions of setuptools >= 60.0 can fail on many if not all Linux distributions. The install.py script now uninstalls
versions of pip, setuptools and wheel that were installed with pip if the
versions provided by the Linux distribution are new enough. If the versions
provided are too old to be fully functional, pip and wheel are updated,
and setuptools is upgraded to a version < 60.0. -
Fix bug #64: Warning dialog fails to appear when iOS device utility applications are
missing, causing a crash when an iOS device is inserted. -
Fix bug #56: Compress bug report tars using gzip, facilitating upload to GitHub issues.
GitHub does not accept .tar files. It does accept .tar.gz files. -
Fix bug #43: Add preference to handle time zone and daylight savings changes. See the
program documentation
for details about what this change is and why it is needed. -
Fix bug #47: Thumbnail generation overwrites Job Code applied to files before thumbnails are generated.
-
Fix bug #55: Updated sequence numbers not used when changed in user interface between file downloads.
-
Add preference option to automatically mount devices not already
automatically mounted. This new option is on by default. The program already
did this on KDE, but it could not be turned off. It can now be turned off.
Regardless of the Linux desktop used, leaving it on is helpful for when the
operating system does not automatically mount devices like memory cards
itself. A desktop like KDE can choose to not automatically mount devices, for
instance. Meanwhile, sometimes Linux desktop code contains bugs that results
in devices failing to mount even when they were supposed to. -
Fix bug to properly size thumbnails and hamburger menu on high DPI screens
with recent releases of Gnome and other desktops that use xsettings. -
Correctly check latest available PyQt5 package version on Fedora and CentOS.
-
Drop support for CentOS 7.5.
-
Remove dependency on fuse in install.py script due to emerging introduction
of the fuse3 package. In almost all circumstances, the ifuse package should
correctly specify the correct version of fuse to depend on, making the
explicit declaration of fuse as a dependency in the install.py script wrong. -
Fix bug to correctly display the number of files available for download after
some files have been manually marked as already downloaded. -
Update Albanian, Catalan, Dutch, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Russian,
Spanish, Swedish and Turkish translations.