-

-NEW in 0.5.0:

-==============

-- Add a new default theme

-- Properly handle monitor changes

-- Add multi-screen support

-- Exit when not in use

-- Exit when unable to acquire bus name

-- Support version 1.1 of the notification spec

-- Various memory leak fixes

-- Better RTL locale support

-- Don't monitor all X events unless necessary

-- Update the list of ways to start a browser (Matthias Clasen)

-- Fix the screensaver lock detection (Matthias Clasen)

-- Use top right location by default (Matthias Clasen)

-- Use canberra instead of gstreamer for event sounds

-- Limit the total number of notifications that can be displayed at once

-- Conversion from glade to gtkbuilder

-- Fixed #608077, doesn't report its sound capability when built with sound support (Bastien Nocera)

-- Fixed #608082, Arabic text is misplaced in bubbles (RTL) (William Jon McCann)

-- Fixed #608858, Modernize autotools configuration (Javier Jardón)

-- Fixed #612032, Various i18n problems (William Jon McCann)

-- Fixed #622021, Closed signal is not emitted when the screensaver si active (Bastien Nocera)

-- Fixed #622552, doesn't support multiple screens or monitor configuration changes (William Jon McCann)

-- Fixed #622556, Save some RAM in NotifyTimeout (Bastien Nocera)

-

-Translations:

-- Updated cs: Petr Kovar

-- Updated da: Joe Hansen

-- Updated de: Mario Blättermann

-- Updated el: Kostas Papadimas

-- Updated es: Jorge González

-- Updated et: Priit Laes

-- Updated fr: Claude Paroz

-- Updated gl: Fran Diéguez

-- Updated hu: Gabor Kelemen <kelemeng at mate dot hu>

-- Updated it: Luca Ferretti

-- Updated ja: Christian Hammond

-- Updated lt: Gintautas Miliauskas, Aurimas Černius

-- Updated nb: Kjartan Maraas

-- Updated pa: A S Alam

-- Updated pl: Piotr Drąg

-- Updated pt_BR: André Gondim, Vladimir Melo, Henrique P. Machado

-- Updated ru: Leonid Kanter, Yuri Myasoedov, Christian Hammond

-- Updated sl: Matej Urbančič

-- Updated sv: Daniel Nylander

-- Updated zh_CN: Ray Wang, 微尘, Aron Xu

-

-

-version 0.4.0 (20-November-2008):

- * Bumped up the required minimum version of GTK+ to 2.10.0.

- * Bump the notification spec version we're compliant with to 1.0.

- * Send the reason code along with the NotificationClosed signal in order

- to indicate why the notification was closed. (Bug #137)

- * Send an error if the user attempts to close an already closed

- notification.

- * Text is now escaped in the summary in the Standard theme so that

- ampersands and other special characters show up instead of disappearing.

- (Bug #132)

- * Set the type hint for notifications to TYPE_NOTIFICATION. (Bug #146)

- * Added support for playing sounds when the "sound-file" hint is set or

- when the default_sound MateConf key is set, as well as support for the

- "suppress-sound" hint. Patch by Jim Ramsay. (Ticket #111)

- * Added a control panel applet for controlling such things as the

- notification theme and popup positions. Patch by John Wendell.

- (Ticket #126)

- * Added better support for attaching context notifications to an icon on

- the system tray, even when it moves. Patch by Colin Walters.

- * Added an Arabic translation. Patch by Djihed Afifi. (Ticket #131)

- * Added an Italian translation. Patch by Luca Ferretti.

- * Fixed a bug where text would sometimes get truncated. (Ticket #162)

- * Fixed a bug where notifications weren't displayed if a fullscreen

- window was minimized. (Bug #142)

- * Fixed a bug where we were quitting on theme engine failure, instead of

- falling back to the default theme engine. Patch by

- driehuis-at-playbeing.org. (Ticket #128)

- * Fixed a bug where notifications with arrows were crossing the monitor

- on multihead setups instead of staying on their head. Patch by M.S.

- (Bug #5)

- * Fixed the close button size on the notifications so that they don't

- stretch. Patch by Luca Cavelli. (Bug #127)

- * Fixed a crash when an unsupported value type was passed in for the

- urgency when using the standard theme. (Bug #135)

-

-version 0.3.7 (27-February-2007):

- * Fixed a compatibility issue with dbus-glib 0.72. Patch by Pawel Worach.

- (Bug #95)

- * The background of the window in the standard theme is now just slightly

- transparent when compiled against GTK+ 2.10 and when using a composite

- manager. Patch by Matt Walton. (Ticket #110)

- * Fix several rendering glitches with the borders in the standard theme.

- * Fix a memory leak when removing a notification. Patch by Sven Wegener.

- (Bug #105).

- * Added initial accessibility support with the standard theme engine.

- * Clicking anywhere in a notification should now close the notification.

- This was happening only on the body text sometimes.

-

-version 0.3.6 (8-October-2006):

- * Added a MateConf key to allow users to specify which corner of the screen

- notifications should appear in. Patch by M.S. (Ticket #57)

- * Added a Dutch translation from Wouter Bolsterlee. (Bug #55)

- * Fixed compatibility problems with D-BUS v0.61. (Bugs #67, #75)

- * A notification's timeout will now pause while the mouse is hovering over

- the notification. This allows users to respond to notifications without

- it suddenly disappearing before the user clicks. (Ticket #73)

- * Fixed a crash under some icon themes where the base size of an icon

- was being returned as 0. (Bug #61)

- * Fixed an assertion failure under newer versions of GTK+ during a

- notification's destruction. Patch by Ed Catmur. (Bug #77)

- * Fixed type validation for raw icon data. Patch by Ed Catmur.

- (Bugs #75, #67)

- * Fixed a problem where a replaces_id that points to a non-existant

- notification would cause a broken notification where timeouts and

- action invoking fails. In this case, a new ID is generated. Patch by

- Ed Catmur. (Bug #76)

- * Fixed a memory leak that occurred every time a notification went away.

- Patch by Nick Schermer.

-

-version 0.3.5 (26-April-2006):

- * Add three new required theme functions:

- - theme_check_init - determines if the theme is compatible with the

- running version of notification-daemon.

- - get_theme_info - returns info on the theme.

- - clear_notification_actions - Clears the notification action buttons

- on the window.

- * Disabled the Bubble theme for this release. It's the source of too

- many bugs.

- * Fix the scaling of different icon sizes. Now small icons display as

- small, and larger icons are scaled down to 48x48.

- * Fixed a problem where icons were being clipped in notifications.

- Patch by M.S. (Bug #21)

- * Fixed incorrect usage of GtkIconTheme. (Bug #38)

- * Fixed notifications with a timeout of 2147484ms or longer expiring

- in less than a second. (Bug #22)

- * Fixed a bug where a notification would duplicate its actions when

- updated. (Bug #30)

- * The Standard theme's countdown timer is now rendered using Cairo when

- compiled against Gtk 2.8.0 or higher. This improves the timer by making

- it antialiased.

- * Renamed notification-daemon.service to

- org.freedesktop.Notifications.service.

-

-version 0.3.4 (4-February-2006):

- * Added a Close button to notifications. This closed ticket #8. Thanks

- to Michael Vogt for the basis of this patch.

- * Fixed a few bugs (including crashes) involving the freeing of

- memory when notifications and theme enginers are destroyed.

- * Fixed the theme engines to be installed as unversioned libraries.

- Thanks to Rodney Dawes for this patch.

- * Fixed a bug where the notification window was not realized, causing

- a crash. This fixes bug #10.

- * Fixed a crash in the Bubble theme when clicking an action.

- * Fixed action ordering in the Bubble theme.

- * Made the destroy_notification, show_notification, hide_notification,

- and set_notification_hints theme engine functions optional.

- * Added set_notification_timeout and notification_tick theme engine

- functions.

- * Made several improvements to the Standard theme:

- - The left-hand color stripe has been made smaller and now reflects

- the urgency level set.

- - Added a pie-based countdown timer for notifications containing

- actions. This allows the user to see how long they have to react to

- a notification.

- - Converted the action links into buttons. These are now left-aligned

- and make a reasonable attempt to find an appropriate stock icon.

- - Allow the notification to be very short when no icons, body text or

- actions are specified.

-

-version 0.3.3 (25-January-2006):

- * Install and check for engines in

- $(libdir)/notification-daemon-1.0/engines, as opposed to

- $(libdir)/notification-daemon/engines.

- * Notifications no longer appear over full screen windows or

- screensavers.

- * When using icontheme icons, the icon with a size closest to 48x48

- is used. If the icon is smaller than 48x48, the icon is left unscaled,

- but if it's larger, it's scaled down.

-

-version 0.3.2 (23-January-2006):

- * Renamed the program back to notification-daemon.

- * Reverted the default look back to the notification-daemon 0.2.x look,

- but with improvements, such as flexible arrow positioning and cleaner

- action separators.

- * Updated to match the notification spec correctly.

- * Added the beginnings of theme support. The look from

- notification-daemon v0.3.1 can be set in a MateConf key, though it is

- not yet fully functional.

- * Added back action support.

- * Added back support for D-BUS 0.36 and higher.

- * Added back the GetCapabilities and GetServerInformation calls.

- * Added back suppor for markup and hyperlinks in the new theme.

- * Fix several cases of C99 usage, and other compiler problems.

- * Fixed a bug where the desktop work area (the area excluding panels)

- wasn't being taken into consideration when positioning notifications.

- * Fixed several crash bugs.

-

-version 0.3.1:

- * First release of the notify daemon which supports the new 0.3.x protocol

- * Users of the older notification-daemon must make sure they uninstall it

- as it will try to catch messages ment for the notify-daemon

-

-version 0.2.4 (6-November-2005):

- * Support clicking on hyperlinks.

-

-version 0.2.3 (6-November-2005):

- * Depends on libsexy for the URL label.

-

-version 0.2.2 (10-August-2005):

- * Fixed several run-time issues on PPC and AMD64 (Martin Pitt)

- * Notifications that are created at the same time will disappear at

- the same time.

- * Notifications that don't expire until the user clicks on them will

- no longer block notifications that do expire.

-

-version 0.2.1 (28-July-2005):

- * Fixed hint support for D-BUS 0.3x.

- * Fixed a compile issue with GCC 4.0.

-

-version 0.2.0 (28-July-2005):

- * Initial public release.