Version 577

docs/changelog.md

@@ -7,6 +7,44 @@ title: Changelog
 !!! note
     This is the new changelog, only the most recent builds. For all versions, see the [old changelog](old_changelog.html).
 
+## [Version 577](https://github.com/hydrusnetwork/hydrus/releases/tag/v577)
+
+### explorer integration
+
+* thanks to a user, we have some new OS-file-explorer integration
+* two additional options are added to the "open" menu for Windows users, "in another program" opens the Windows dialog to select which program to use and "properties" opens the Windows file properties dialog for the file
+* the 'media' shortcut set gets the new 'open file properties' and 'open with...' commands to plug into these new features
+* the "open in file browser" media menu command now more reliably selects the file in Windows and is now available for most Linux file managers--full list [here](https://github.com/damonlynch/showinfilemanager#supported-file-managers).
+* the "open files' locations" file import log menu command is similarly more reliable, and can sometimes select multiple files when launched on a selection
+* this requires a new external library, so users who run from source will want to rebuild their venvs this week to get this functionality
+
+### misc
+
+* the manage times single-time edit dialog's paste button can now eat any datstring you can think of. try pasting 'yesterday 3am' into it, it'll work!
+* split the increasingly cluttered 'media' options panel into 'media playback' (options governing how media is rendered) and 'media viewer' (options governing the viewer itself like drags and slideshows)
+* added to the new 'media viewer' panel are five checkboxes to turn off the background text in the full media viewer--for the taglist, the top hover, the top-right hover, the notes hover, and the bottom-right index string. if you want, you can have a completely blank background now
+* gave the _help->about_ window a pass. I broke the cluttered first tab into two, and the layout all over is a bit clearer
+* the _help->advanced mode_ option is now available under a new _options->advanced_ tab. this thing covers several dozen things across the program, all insufficiently documented, so the plan is to blow it out into all its granular constituent components on this page!
+* fixed it so an invalid `ApplicationCommand` will still render a string. if you got some jank `ToString()` errors in a shortcuts dialog recently, please try again and let me know what you get. you'll probably want to go into the actual shortcut with the error string and try and see if you can fix what it has set--again, let me know the details please!
+* updated the 'installing and updating' help page to talk clearly about the different versions that have special update instructions, and generally gave the language a pass
+
+### some url encoding
+
+* fixed an issue in url encoding-normalisation where urls were not retaining their parameters if their names had certain decoded characters (particularly, this was stuff like the decoded square brackets in `fields[post]=123`). a new unit test will catch this in future
+* url classes and parsers are now careful to encode their example urls any time they are asked for (outside of their respective edit dialogs' "example url(s)" fields, so if you want to work with a human-looking URL in UI, that's fine). this ensures the automatic url-parser linking system works if the parser and url classes have a mish-mash of encoded and non-encoded example URLs. it also fixes some stuff like the multi-column list in the manage url classes dialog when the url class has a decoded example url. this was basically just an ingestion point that I missed in the previous work
+* the edit parser dialog makes sure to properly encode the URL when you do a test pull
+
+### orphan table tech
+
+* the _database->db maintenance->clear orphan tables_ command, which could previously only clear out the repository update/processing-tracking tables, can now nuke: the core file list tables in client.db; the core mappings tables in client.mappings.db; the display and storage mappings caches in client.caches.db; the display and storage autocomplete count caches; the ideal and actual tag parent lookup tables in client.caches.db; the ideal and actual tag sibling lookup tables in client.caches.db; and the various tag search tables (except the fts4 stuff) in client.caches.db
+* when this job fires, it now sends orphan tables to the deferred delete system (previously it dropped them immediately, which for a big mappings table is a no-go)
+
+### boring cleanup
+
+* cleaned a bunch of db table code for the new orphan table stuff
+* deleted the old 'yaml_dumps' table and all associated methods, which are all now unused
+* added a couple help labels to the "colours" and "style" pages to better explain what is actually going on here
+
 ## [Version 576](https://github.com/hydrusnetwork/hydrus/releases/tag/v576)
 
 ### file access latency
@@ -384,30 +422,3 @@ title: Changelog
 * cleaned up some misc URL Class code
 
 ## Version 567 was cancelled, its changes folded into 568.
-
-## [Version 566](https://github.com/hydrusnetwork/hydrus/releases/tag/v566)
-
-### incremental tagging
-
-* when you boot a 'manage tags' dialog on multiple files, a new `±` button now lets you do 'incremental tagging'. this is where you, let's say for twenty files, tag them from page:1->page:20. this has been a long time in the works, but now we have thumbnail reorganisation tech, it is now sensible to do.
-* the dialog lets you set a namespace (or none), start point (e.g. you can start tagging at page:19 if you are doing the second chapter etc...), the step (you can count by +2 every file, instead of +1, or even -1 to decrement), the subtag prefix (so you can say 'page:insert-4' or something), and the subtag suffix (for, say, 'page:2 (wip)')
-* the last namespace is remembered between dialog opens, and if the first file in the selection has a number tag in that namespace, that is the number the 'start' will initialise with. a bit of overlap/prep may save time here!
-* the prefix and suffix are remembered between dialog opens
-* a status text gives you a live preview of what you will be adding and says whether any of the files already have exactly those tags or have different tags under the same namespace (which would be possible conflicts, suggesting you are not lined up correct)
-
-### misc
-
-* added import support for .docx, .xlsx, and .pptx files (the Microsoft Open XML Formats). they get icons, not much else. they are secretly zips, so **on update, you will be asked if you want to scan your existing zips for these formats**
-* when you move a window to another screen in a maximised state (e.g. on Windows you can do this with win+shift+arrow), the system that remembers window coordinates will now register and save this. the 'restore' window size is preserved from whatever it was on the previous screen while the 'restore' position will try to stay the same on the new monitor (e.g. if it was at (200, 400) on the old monitor, it will try to do the same on the new) as long as the window fits, otherwise it is moved to (20,20) on the new screen
-* the 'edit string converter' panel no longer requires you to enter an example text that can be converted. you can see the error on the dialog, so if you don't want to fix it, or you just need to nip in and out testing things, it is now up to you
-* if the database takes a long time to update, the 'just woke up from sleep' state should no longer trigger. the system thought the long weird early delay was the computer going to sleep
-* the system that gives a popup and then a dialog when you have 165+ (and then 500+ or so) pages open is now removed. this was always a wx thing primarily, and Qt is much happier about having a whole load of UI elements. the main problem here is now memory blot and UI-update lag. this is now in the user's hands alone, no more bothering from me (unless it becomes a new problem, and I'll figure out a better warning test/system)
-
-### boring code cleanup
-
-* neatened how some manage tags ui is initialised. there's a hair of a chance this fixes the 'the manage tags dialog taglist is cut off sometimes' bug
-* neatened how some pending content updates are held in manage tags
-* manage tags dialogs now receive their media list in the same order as the underlying thumbnail selection, ha ha ha
-* untangled some of the presentation import options. stuff like 'is new or in inbox' gets slightly better description labels and cleaner actual logic code
-* fixed some type issues, some typo'd pubsubs, and other misc linting
-* tried last week's aborted github build update again. the build is now Node 20 compatible