bearhub/CHANGELOG.md

Changelog

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

The format is based on Keep a Changelog.

[0.6.0] 2019-09-

Features

• Supporting AUR packages (install, uninstall, search, info, downgrade and history)
• Now it is possible to enable / disable the packaging technologies via graphical interface using the "Application types" action in the lower "Settings" menu
• Qt style / theme combo selector ( environment variable / parameter BAUH_THEME (--theme) removed )
• New "Launch" button: can launch application packages
• New "Installed" button: quickly retrieves the installed packages without a full refresh ( available after a search )
• Publisher / maintainer column in the packages table
• "Application settings" button located in right lower corner
• Package "Name" filter field (above the packages table)
• Showing the number of packages being shown by the total found
• "Show" button for large fields of the "Info" window

Improvements:

• Reading installed Snaps now takes around 95% less time
• Reading installed Flatpaks now takes around 45% less time
• Refreshing only the associated package type after a successful operation (install, uninstall, downgrade, ...)
• When a package is installed, it will be the first element of the table after refreshing
• Progress bar status can now be controlled by the software manager while an operation is being executed
• Flatpak: showing runtime branches as versions when they are not available

UI Changes

• "Upgrade selected" and "Refresh" buttons now have text labels and new colors
• Updates warning icon removed
• Progress bar height reduced
• Packaging type checkbox filters replaced by a combo box (single select)
• Search bar resized

Fixes:

• cached Flatpak app current version
• disk loader not filling all requested cached data from the disk

Code

• Code was internally modularized as: "api" (conceptual classes used to create custom software managers), "gems" (software managers), "commons" (common classes shared between the UI and "gems")
• "gems" modules requires only "api" (no UI code)
• "api" allows custom operations, so the "gems" can provide actions that the current GUI does not know (Snap "refresh" was refactored as a custom operation)

[0.5.2] 2019-09-06

Features

• New environment variable / parameter to set a custom QT theme for the application: BAUH_THEME (--theme)

Fixes

• wrong management panel resizing for some scenarios
• bad application theme when fusion or breeze are not set as default QT theme / style

[0.5.1] - 2019-08-12

Improvements:

• suggestions are now retrieved asynchronously taking 45% less time.
• search response takes an average of 20% less time ( reaching 35% for several results )
• app boot takes 98% less time when snapd is installed, but disabled
• BAUH_TRAY (--tray) is not enabled by default (0).

Fixes

• not showing correctly the latest flatpak app versions when bringing the search results
• flatpak client dependency