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This release adds a host of small features, some of which I've been planning on doing for a long time. There are also recent suggestions from users that enhance day-to-day usage of the app. Highlights: support for submenus (bookmarks, page tools, split view, and user data), text snippets, additional search URLs, visual UI tweaks, resizable input/upload/bookmark dialogs, improved upload editor, new input prompt functionality, and support for Nex.
Oct 07 ยท 5 weeks ago ยท ๐ michaelnordmeyer, drh3xx, stack, november, clseibold, jmjl, johano ยท ๐ 1 โค 1
๐ต michaelnordmeyer ยท Oct 07 at 15:06:
Great release. Thanks a lot.
But I *really* need to get the old "Colorful Light" theme colors back. ๐ฅบ
Any chance of getting those as a seperate themes like "Colorful Light Vibrant" (old) and "Colorful Light Muted" (new)? ๐
Edit: Looks like the other themes have been changed as well. To me the "Colorful Light/Dark" themes where the best features of Lagrange. ยฏ\(ใ)/ยฏ
๐ skyjake ยท Oct 07 at 16:07:
I'm not going to promise I'll restore the old Colorful Light exactly, but "Vibrant Light" would be a great theme name. ๐
IIRC, the changes in the theming were:
Color accuracy/calibration of the screens of computers and other devices tends to be all over the place, so I can understand wanting some options here. Is the main problem for you that the colors are too pastel? I made them a bit lighter and more normalized across the spectrum to ensure a more consistent legibility of black text on colored backgrounds.
๐ง๏ธ Asterisk ยท Oct 07 at 16:07:
Lots of great new features! I'm wondering, though: is there a way to disable the new scroll-on-select behavior near the top and bottom edges? Maybe I'm a bit old-fashioned, but I don't like text scrolling on my screen unless I am explicitly scrolling it.
๐ skyjake ยท Oct 07 at 16:19:
@Asterisk Scroll-when-selecting is a pretty universal convention in GUIs. Without it, you can't select text that extends outside the screen just with the mouse.
I could adjust it to be less sensitive over the page area, so you actually have move the cursor further outside the page to get it to scroll?
๐ง๏ธ Asterisk ยท Oct 07 at 16:26:
Perhaps less sensitivity would be preferable.
But I can say I can't replicate scroll-when-selecting on any other program I have installed on my system -- none of my web browsers, text editors, terminal emulators, or IDEs do it. Maybe it's a platform-specific thing? I can't recall ever encountering it as a standard behaviour on any Linux or Windows software.
Edit: To avoid confusion, I'm not referring to scrolling when manually extending the selection past the bottom or top of the screen -- that is a universal feature. I'm referring to the new feature that automatically scrolls up or down when you select text that is near the top or bottom, even if you are only selecting horizontally.
๐ต michaelnordmeyer ยท Oct 07 at 18:20:
@skyjake Yes, they are too pastel or muted compared to the old ones.
I use Lagrange on high quality, color-acurate screens, like on a MacBook Pro 16" M1 2021 with a 10bit, 1000 nit Mini-LED screen and great calibration and color support through the OS. So I already have plenty of vibrancy compared to my Thinkpad T480.
But now I have less :( Even "Colorful Dark" lost some appeal. I know that Colorful Light is probably not great for my eyes (and bad for people with limited vision), but awesome for my mood.
๐ november ยท Oct 09 at 16:10:
I'm looking forward to using the new version :) Flatpak is still on v1.16.7; whenabouts do you think they'll have 1.17 available?
๐ skyjake ยท Oct 09 at 16:45:
@november No idea unfortunately. There was an odd-looking build error in the Flathub logs. Maybe I'll just try resubmitting the build, it could've been a Flathub server problem.
EDIT: Looks like a problem with the app's Flatpak manifest. I guess the linting rules have changed, because it's giving an error about the sandbox permissions that have been in use for a long time.
๐ skyjake ยท Oct 09 at 18:20:
I've fixed the Flatpak build, and updated the runtime as well in case a newer SDL works better (it should). The new build should appear on Flathub soonish.
๐ stack ยท Oct 09 at 22:40:
Any thoughts on when it will percolate to FreeBSD? Latest there is 1.16.5 as of Oct.9,2023
๐ skyjake ยท Oct 10 at 07:49:
@stack That would be up to whoever maintains the FreeBSD package/port. I haven't really been involved with it.