Meld - News

Meld 1.8.6 — 19 Jul 2014

File and folder comparison panes can now be resized (Marco Brito)
Folder comparisons now support scrolling between chunks using the mouse wheel in the link map, like file comparisons (Kai Willadsen)

Don’t draw spurious actions for equal chunks (Kai Willadsen)
Remove default sourceview behaviour for Alt+Left/Right (Kai Willadsen)
Fix storing translated column names in configuration (Kai Willadsen)
Several fixes for multiple windows in single-instance handling:
- Resolve relative paths relative to the correct instance (Kai Willadsen)
- Don’t create windows in the original instance when the calling instance errors out (Kai Willadsen)
- Raise the correct window for new windows in the same instance (Kai Willadsen)
- Exit correctly for command line errors in the calling instance (Kai Willadsen)
Fix display of unicode paths in repositories (Kai Willadsen)
Fix handling of unicode paths in recent files store (Kai Willadsen)
Improve behaviour of Open External action, and handle spaces in filenames for the custom editor option (Kai Willadsen)
Improve support custom installation prefixes (Kai Willadsen)

New (alpha) infrastructure for stand-alone Windows builds (Kai Willadsen)
Display renames and metadata in Bazaar repositories (Louis des Landes)
Improved tab labels in version control comparisons (Kai Willadsen)
New merge-order preference to accompany comparison-order (Kai Willadsen)
Added a prompt to mark a conflict as resolved from file comparison (Kai Willadsen)

Fix filtering for shallow folder comparisons (Casey)
Several install and distribution fixes (Kai Willadsen)
Sundry bug fixes (Dominique Leuenberger, Thomas Klausner, Louis des Landes, Kai Willadsen)

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)

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)

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)