Meld

Features

• Supporting hiding empty filtered folders in folder comparison (Gianni Trovisi, Kai Willadsen)
• Notify user when files change externally in file comparison (Kai Willadsen)
• Use standard GIO file trash handling when deleting files (Kai Willadsen)
• Newly written Mallard-based help (Kai Willadsen)

User interface updates

• Support GNOME 3-style application menu (Kai Willadsen)
• Visual improvements to several icons (Kai Willadsen)
• Update Meld’s colour scheme (Kai Willadsen)
• Many visual styling updates, layout tweaks and UI polish (Kai Willadsen)

Internal changes

• Port to GObject introspection, GTK+ 3, GApplication, GSettings and other new things starting with ‘G’ (Kai Willadsen)
• Port to distutils, based on python-distutils-extra (Kai Willadsen)
• Move to using CSS for styling and colour definitions (Kai Willadsen)
• Update to use more modern GTK widgets (Peter Tyser, Kai Willadsen)
• Move a lot of extra UI construction into glade/UI files (Kai Willadsen)
• Make several custom icons themeable (Kai Willadsen)
• Make Meld a single-instance application, and add support for multiple windows (Kai Willadsen)

Fixes

• Improved rendering speed in file comparisons (Kai Willadsen)
• Translation fixes (Piotr Drąg)
• Copy and paste within a buffer no longer causes occasional incorrect change highlighting (Kai Willadsen)
• Fixes for version control support (Ben Ross, Louis des Landes, Peter Tyser, Tom Scytale)
• Windows crash fixes (Bartosz Dziewoński)
• Sundry bug fixes (Daniel Pantea, Peter Tyser, Kai Willadsen)

New dependencies

• GTK+ 3.6
• GLib 2.34
• PyGObject 3.8
• GtkSourceView 3.6; GtkSourceView is also no longer optional

Translations

• Marek Černocký (cs)
• Benjamin Steinwender (de)
• Dimitris Spingos (el)
• Daniel Mustieles (es)
• Jiri Grönroos (fi)
• Fran Diéguez (gl)
• Gabor Kelemen (hu)
• Andika Triwidada (id)
• Milo Casagrande (it)
• Piotr Drąg (pl)
• Enrico Nicoletto(pt_BR)
• Rafael Ferreira (pt_BR)
• Matej Urbančič (sl)
• Мирослав Николић (sr, sr@latin)
• Özgür Sarıer (tr)
• zodiac111 (zh_CN)

Fixes

• Fix crash when scanning CVS-only folders (Kai Willadsen)
• Fix crash on Windows when missing cdll.intl (Bartosz Dziewoński)
• Fix crash with Italian (it_IT.utf8) locale (Balint Reczey)

Translations

• Andika Triwidada (id)
• Benjamin Steinwender (de)
• Daniel Mustieles (es)

Fixes

• Fix subdirectory comparisons for Subversion 1.6 (Ben Ross)
• Fix git status parsing for some statuses (Tom Scytale)
• Don’t disable updating when syncpoints aren’t yet active (Kai Willadsen)
• Fix modifying column properties causing crashes when using .ini config backend (Kai Willadsen)

Translations

• Andika Triwidada (id)
• Milo Casagrande (it)
• zodiac111 (zh_CN)

Fixes

• Fix regression selecting Subversion 1.6 repositories (Kai Willadsen)
• Fix for unicode usernames on Windows; note that this change also moves Meld config from the remote to the local app data folder (Kai Willadsen)
• Add copyright string to appdata file (Kai Willadsen)

Translations

• Fran Diéguez (gl)
• Matej Urbančič (sl)

Fixes

• Add AppData file (Kai Willadsen)
• Change order of version control selection for CVS and old SVN (Kai Willadsen)
• Fix escaped markup in folder comparisons (Kai Willadsen)

Translations

• Daniel Mustieles (es)
• Enrico Nicoletto (pt_BR)
• Gabor Kelemen (hu)
• Marek Černocký (cs)
• Milo Casagrande (it)
• Piotr Drąg (pl)