Let’s face it, all of KDE’s task switchers other than Compact are awful in varying degrees. Unfortunately I found it to be missing. Luckily the solution is simple on Debian/Ubuntu.
sudo apt-get install kwin-addonsAnd there you have it. Happy window switching!
As one of the maintainers of KOReader, a versatile a document and image viewer, I’m proud to announce the latest release.
There’s this upcoming videogame called Skatebird. The demo was quite promising. But what you didn’t know is that many of those birbs read heaps and gobs of classic literature from Project Gutenberg and Archive.org. Just like us!
Quite a bit of effort was put into PocketBook this month to make it more maintainable going forward. By creating our own toolchain (koreader/koxtoolchain#22), we can now build the binaries with an up-to-date GCC instead of the years-old GCC 4.8 in the official toolchain, which was starting to become problematically outdated. This is no panacea; most PocketBook issues are unrelated, but a higher maintenance burden can be quite demotivating and gets in the way of addressing actual issues.
In-page footnotes are now enabled by default (#5908). We’re quite fond of them, but if you’d like to disable them you can do so in the document menu (second from the left in the top menu) → Style tweaks → Miscellaneous → In-page footnotes.
We’d like to thank all contributors for their efforts. Some highlights since the previous release include:
Shamelessly lifted from Norbert Preining in case I forget. I still haven’t actually continued Broken Sword 5 past the first few rooms, just like a few years ago.
Create a file named ~/.alsoftrc with this in it.
[pulse]
allow-moves=trueAs one of the maintainers of KOReader, a versatile a document and image viewer, I’m proud to announce the latest release.
Thanks to @tcrs the program has now been ported to the Remarkable (#5828).
Additionally, OTA update reliability should be better from now on, by switching to zsync2 with a few custom patches (#5810). The update from 2019.12 to 2020.01 managed to sometimes trigger an edge condition where the OTA update would just keep looping without ever finishing. Furthermore, the download progress will now be printed directly to the screen on supported devices, so you’ll always know exactly what’s happening.
By switching to the connectivity manager on Android, we should stop falsely triggering an unconnected message in some edge cases such as Ethernet, which you typically don’t see on the platform (#5801).
And as a final little unexpected gift, @poire-z implemented a calendar view for the reading statistics, so you can easily see what you were reading when (#5854).
We’d like to thank all contributors for their efforts. Some highlights since the previous release include:
The KOReader translation project has migrated to Weblate. Please head over there if you’re interested in assisting with localization. More information is available here.
A small fix, but important if you used it, the LoginDialog widget no longer crashes on switching focus (#5749).
We’ve also added Liberapay link (#5770), in the form of a “sponsor” button in the top right here on GitHub. We’ve often received requests for something like this, and the platform looks promising.
We’d like to thank all contributors for their efforts. Some highlights since the previous release include:
Weblate migration (#5713, #5719, #5720, #5722, #5734) @Frenzie (hat tip to @yparitcher for some related fixes)
[feat] Adds Document> Auto-save book metadata sub-menu (#5687) @poire-z
android: import from Storage Access Framework (#5686) @pazos
Add an option to the filemanager “plus” menu to import files in current path using Android storage access framework.
The new menu entry will be displayed on Android 4.4+. Once the user select one or more files in the dialog these files will be imported on the specified folder.
Only supported mimetypes can be imported.
On folders outside the file sandbox the “import files here” entry will be disabled.
Style tweaks: In-page footnotes: add some classic classnames (#5727) @poire-z
[feat] Option to change page gap in continuous mode (#5705) @mustafa-001
[RTL UI] Bidi-wrap filenames, paths, urls, metadata (#5696) @poire-z
This also helps correctly displaying RTL and bidi filenames and directories in a LTR UI.
[UX] Footer: add option to set font size (#5736) @robert00s
Remove DSCROLL_MODE and DGLOBALGAMMA (#5754) @robert00s
[UX] Footer: add option to set progress bar min width (#5757) @robert00s
bump crengine: support inline-block, better text selection (#5763) @poire-z
bump android, fixes ntx landscape tearing, thanks to @char11 (#5769) @pazos
[UX] Keyboard for Arabic and languages with Arabic script (#5569) @WaseemAlkurdi
Make Inverted Portrait a first-class citizen (#5783) @NiLuJe
[UX] Footer: add options to show title and current chapter (#5775) @robert00s
[fix, plugin] Evernote exporter only writes one documents clippings when txt export used, rest is ignored (#5774) @mustafa-001
add turkish q keyboard layout (#5795) @mustafa-001
Rather annoyingly, you have to manually turn on “enhanced format” HDMI to actually get that which is advertised on the box. I spent a little while fiddling with different ports, cables and my video card before I finally realized. See here for the full details.
- Press the HOME button on the remote control
- Select Settings
- Select External inputs in the TV category
- Select HDMI signal format and set to Enhanced format
To share USB in VirtualBox guests, you need to install the extension pack on the host. On Debian, that’s the virtualbox-ext-pack package. At first I thought I needed guest additions or something like that, but that wasn’t the problem.
$ apt show virtualbox-ext-pack
Package: virtualbox-ext-pack
Version: 6.0.12-1
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: contrib/misc
Maintainer: Debian Virtualbox Team
Installed-Size: 130 kB
Pre-Depends: debconf
Depends: virtualbox (>= 6.0.12-dfsg-0~) | virtualbox-6.0, virtualbox (<< 6.0.12-dfsg-z) | virtualbox-6.0, wget, debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0
Homepage: https://www.virtualbox.org
Download-Size: unknown
APT-Manual-Installed: yes
APT-Sources: /var/lib/dpkg/status
Description: extra capabilities for VirtualBox, downloader.
VirtualBox requires an extension pack to provide support for Remote
Desktop Protocol, USB 2.0, PXE booting for Intel network cards, etc.
This PUEL-licensed extension pack is free for personal use.
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This package downloads the extension pack from internet during install.
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KOReader’s UI is gearing up for RTL. This isn’t truly visible yet since the relevant translations (e.g., Arabic, Hebrew, and Kurdic) are only partially finished, but a preview can be obtained in English as well. By going into the file browser → tools (screwdriver & wrench icon) → developer options → UI layout mirroring and text direction you can play around with it. The full discussion can be found in #5359. If you use or develop RTL software, please contribute your expertise.
Another nice improvement this month is the keyboard layout picker (#5583). Users can select keyboards for quick access switching in settings → device → keyboard layout. Hold to pick a default layout. After you’ve selected a few layouts, you can quickly switch between them by tapping on the globe icon, or directly to a specific layout by swiping on the globe icon in the relevant direction. You can also long-press on the globe icon to bring up a popup, just like on every other key.
We’d like to thank all contributors for their efforts. Some highlights since the previous release include:
As one of the maintainers of KOReader, a versatile a document and image viewer, I’m proud to announce the latest release.
After many months of testing, “best” kerning has been made the default. Without it, languages like Arabic and Hebrew won’t be displayed correctly, which led to some confusion with regard to last month’s release. The Latin alphabet also looks better this way, but less pronounced (especially compared to “good”). If you want to set an option as a global default, you can always long-press it.
Image credit: I incorporated the coat of arms of Senica as a tribute. Hope you like it!
We’d like to thank all contributors for their efforts. Some highlights since the previous release include:
As one of the maintainers of KOReader, a versatile a document and image viewer, I’m proud to announce the latest release.
@poire-z has outdone himself this month by implementing RTL/bidi support in crengine. With a hat tip to the FriBiDi and HarfBuzz libraries for minimizing the still substantial amount of effort involved.
We’d like to thank all contributors for their efforts. Some highlights since the previous release include: