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terminator 1.0:
* Allow font dimming in inactive terminals
* Allow URL handler plugins to override label text for URL context
menus
* When copying a URL, run it through the URL handler first so the
resulting URL is copied, rather than the original text
* Allow users to configure a custom URL handler, since the
default GTK library option is failing a lot of users in non-GNOME
environments.
* Allow rotation of a group of terminals (Andre Hilsendeger)
* Add a keyboard shortcut to insert a terminal's number (Stephen J
Boddy)
* Add a keyboard shortcut to edit the window title (Stephen J Boddy)
* Add an easy way to balance terminals by double clicking on their
separator (Stephen J Boddy)
* Add a plugin by Sinan Nalkaya to log the contents of terminals.
* Support configuration of TERM and COLORTERM, via a patch from
John Feuerstein
* Support reading configuration from alternate files, via a patch
from Pavel Khlebovich
* Bug fixes
terminator 0.96:
* Unity support for opening new windows (Lucian Adrian Grijincu)
* Fix searching with infinite scrollback (Julien Thewys #755077)
* Fix searching on Ubuntu 10.10 and 11.04, and implement searching
by regular expression (Roberto Aguilar #709018)
* Optimise various low level components so they are dramatically
faster (Stephen Boddy)
* Fix various bugs (Stephen Boddy)
* Fix cursor colours (#700969) and a cursor blink issue (Tony Baker)
* Improve and extend drag&drop support to include more sources of
text, e.g. Gtk file chooser path buttons (#643425)
* Add a plugin to watch a terminal for inactvity (i.e. silence)
* Fix loading layouts with more than two tabs (#646826)
* Fix order of tabs created from saved layouts (#615930)
* Add configuration to remove terminal dimensions from titlebars
(patch from João Pinto #691213)
* Restore split positions more accurately (patch from Glenn Moss
#797953)
* Fix activity notification in active terminals. (patch from Chris
Newton #748681)
* Stop leaking child processes if terminals are closed using the
context menu (#308025)
* Don't forget tab order and custom labels when closing terminals
in them (#711356)
* Each terminal is assigned a unique identifier and this is exposed
to the processes inside the terminal via the environment variable
TERMINATOR_UUID
* Expand dbus support to start covering useful methods. Also add
a commandline tool called 'remotinator' that can be used to control
Terminator from a terminal running inside it.
* Fix terminal font settings for users of older Linux distributions
terminator 0.95:
* Add a configuration option to enable a DBus server
* Add a configuration option to disable font anti-aliasing
* Improved error handling in various locations
* Maven URL handler plugin (thanks to Julien Nicoulaud)
terminator 0.94:
* Improved support for entirely hiding Terminal titlebars
* Plugin configuration via preferences UI
* New plugins: Terminal Screenshot, Watch Terminal Activity
* Add preferences support for profile encodings (LP: #597340)
* Deprecate the tabbar_hide option, replacing it with a 'hidden'
option for tab_position.
* Add profiles, custom titlebar and custom tab labels to layouts.
* Improved directional navigation
* Backwards compatibility fixes for RHEL 5.5.
* Disabled-by-default keybindings for switching broadcast modes
* Bug fixes for LPs: #566925, #563445, #583041, #589200, #576279,
#597340, #554571, #597651, #308025, #600280, #576276, #570706,
#575827 and some other bugs.
terminator 0.93:
* Add preferences support for alternate_screen_scroll (LP: #558832).
* Bug fixes for LPs: #562490, #563911, #546665, #558324, #490627,
#558376, #558375, #559185, #558330, #554571, #554440, #561697,
#562039, #558832, #561710, #563445 and some other bugs.
terminator 0.92:
* Lots of juicy bug fixes
* Implement the Palette section of the Profile preferences
terminator 0.91:
* Fix various stupid release bugs from 0.90
terminator 0.90:
* Almost complete refactoring of the code. This almost
inevitably means some regressions, unfortunately, but
it brings serious internal improvements and some new
features.
* Brand new preferences editor, including profiles and
layouts. The editor now saves to a config file.
terminator 0.14:
* Major reworking of the grouping interface by Stephen
Boddy
* Keybindings can now be disabled by setting them to "None"
* Change default behaviour to enable full transparency
* Terminal titlebars can now be edited like tab labels
* Geometry hinting is now available and enabled by default
* Lots of bug fixing
terminator 0.13:
* Bug fixes
* Added a shortcut key to make the window appear/disappear
(somewhat like a "Quake console" mode. Needs the deskbar
python bindings to work)
* Update pot generation to use intltool-update
* Allow users to permanently fix the title of a tab
* Added command line option to specify working directory
* Improve transparency support in composited desktops.
* The tab bar can now be hidden and/or scrolled.
* Add configurability of cursor colour and shape
* Support various VoIP URIs
* Add command line option to force a particular window title
* Add a hotkey for spawning a new Terminator instance
(emulates a "new window" feature)
* Ability to group by tab
* SunOS support (via patch from Lewis Thompson)
* Silly notify-osd message on exit (suggested by pitti)
* Drag and drop icon is now a scaled terminal image
terminator 0.12:
* Bug fixes
* Simultaneous typing support
* Directional terminal navigation
* Improved search UI
* Graphical Profile Editor
* Bug numbers for launchpad.net are now URLs
terminator 0.11:
* Bug fixes
* X session support
terminator 0.10:
* Various bug fixes.
* New, improved config file parsing
* Improved spawning of more complex terminal commands
* Debug server (not useful for most people)
* Configurable keyboard shortcuts
* Scrollback searching
* Support --geometry
terminator 0.9:
* Tab support
* Drag & Drop support
* Added support for ~/.config/terminator/config
* Switch the meanings of "horizontal" and "vertical" wrt splitting,
after extensive user feedback. Added context menu icons to try and
make the meaning clearer.
* Added keybindings for terms size and scrollbar manipulation. Thanks
Emmanuel Bretelle.
* Completely revamped config system which now transparently makes use
of gconf settings if they are available, falls back to sensible
defaults if not, and can be overridden entirely by ~/.config/terminator/config
* Support terminal zooming - now you can quickly hide all terminals apart
from one and either scale the fontsize or not.
* New application icon from Cory Kontros
* FreeBSD support (thanks to Thomas Hurst)
* Watch the system monospace font setting. Closes LP #197960
* Proxy support (via GNOME and $http_proxy)
* GConf backend now caches
* Fix redundant title when there is only one Term. Closes LP#215210
* Try much harder to find a usable shell
* Support encodings a-la GNOME Terminal
* Move python support code to a terminatorlib module
* Many other bug fixes and wider compatibility with GNOME Terminal
* Add support to cycle term within the same tab. Closes LP#238205.
This can be disabled by setting cycle_term_tab to False in
~/.config/terminator/config
terminator 0.8.1:
* Fixed ChangeLog
* Revert URI matching behaviour to the same as gnome-terminal
* Close LP #179315 with a fuller fix that provides proper colour support
terminator 0.8:
* Make dependency on python-gnome optional. Non-gnome users can now reap
the glorious benefits of Terminator and will only lose the ability to
open email URLs (assuming their browser won't handle this for them).
Closes LP #184809
* Remove blank translations from .desktop file to fix empty menu entries.
Closes LP #187187
* Add application icon at various sizes including a window icon
* New options parser allowing -x support. Closes LP191124
* More translations (thanks!)
terminator 0.7:
* Fullscreen support, via a patch from Thomas Meire. Closes LP #178914
* Improved behaviour when closing terminals/window. Result of work by
Thomas Meire. Closes LP #161121
* Freedesktop .desktop file and appropriate setup.py entry for
installing it. Closes LP #178943
* Translation support, with Spanish, Dutch, Italian and Romanian
translations. Closes LP #161120
* Stop clashing with gnome-terminal's paste shortcut key, move
horizontal splitting shortcut too, and add support for
gnome-terminal's copy/paste shortcuts. Closes LP #179310
* Borderless support (tell your window manager not to decorate
Terminator)
* Font zooming support. Closes LP #178792
* Set the VTE widget to have a tooltip of its window title. This may be
reverted if it is annoying
* Support GNOME Terminal profile settings for backgrounds.
Closes LP #180717
* Use our own default values if there is no gnome-terminal profile.
Closes LP #179315
terminator 0.6:
* Use new gnome-terminal gconf key to find available profiles
* Move a few more hardcoded items to our settings array (not that
it can be overridden yet)
* Fix handling of exiting child processes to properly track
gnome-terminal settings
* Add Ctrl-Tab and Ctrl-Shift-Tab as options for switching terminals
(patch from Kees Cook)
* Stop using parent.show_all() when removing/adding a terminal and
instead show the actual widgets that have been created. This
prevents scrollbars from re-appearing after they have been hidden
terminator 0.5:
* The terminator window is now able to resize smaller,
thanks to Kees Cook for the fix.
* Email addresses are now matched and opened correctly.
Closes LP #139015
* Double clicking a URL now selects the whole URL. Closes LP #129533
* The default behaviour is now to open a single 80x24 terminal rather
than four terminals in a maximised window. Closes LP #126219 and
should force me to fix LP #87720
* There are now hotkeys for switching between terminals, splitting
terminals and closing them. Closes LP #149931 and #148622(thanks
to Huanghe for patches for this)
* If there is only one terminal, closing it will not produce a quit
message
terminator 0.4:
* Architecture should be all, not any
* Fix section
* Add AUTHORS file
* Rename script to drop the .py
* Handle the gnome-terminal profile better by offering command options
* Fudge around some resizing issues
* Fix child spawning to avoid segfaulting zsh
* Misc. code formatting/style improvements
* Refactor terminal splitting into one axis agnostic function
* Flesh out setup.py a tiny bit more
terminator 0.3:
* Implemented terminal closing, which correctly reparents its sibling
(if any)
* Updated documentation to reflect a serious bug with shells that aren't
bash (or at least zsh)
terminator 0.2:
* Support dynamically splitting terminals
terminator 0.1:
* Fixed some distribution wording
* Fix build-depends
* Initial release