Timer Applet News

April 28, 2006 - Timer Applet 1.3 release
 * libnotify support
 * Uses pulsing button animation rather than a dialog to indicate that a timer has finished
 * Hides the Presets menu if it's empty
 * Changed presets file format and storage location. Old presets file is automatically migrated to new format.
 * Translation updates
 * New translations added: Esperanto (eo), Finnish (fi), Italian (it), Korean (ko)
 * Bug fixes
 * Lots of code refactoring and clean up
 * Timer Applet now requires GTK+ 2.8 or later and libnotify 0.3.0 or later

December 15, 2005 - Timer Applet 1.2 release
* Implemented customizable notification sound in the Preferences dialog box
* Added right-click menu items for pausing, resuming, restarting, and stopping the timer (thanks in part to Baris Cicek)
* Added Presets submenu to the right-click menu for starting presets
* Added Turkish translation from Baris Cicek
* Updated Swedish translation from Sergej Kotliar
* Couple of bug fixes from Toshio Kuratomi
* Minor UI improvements
* Bug fixes
* Timer Applet now requires at least GTK+ 2.6

August 18, 2005 - Timer Applet 1.1.1 release
New in this release:
* Fixed another compiler warning when using GCC 4.0

August 16, 2005 - Timer Applet 1.1 release
New in this release:
* Fixed compiler warnings when using GCC 4.0
* Added Polish translation from Michal Kastelik

April 2, 2005 - Timer Applet 1.0 release
New in this release:
* Fixed a bug in which deleting all presets in the Start Timer dialog would desensitize the "Start Timer" button
* Fixed a bug that caused a crash by allowing the user to add a second preset named "Untitled Preset"
* Properly handle customized panel backgrounds, such as transparency
* Show the remaining time below the timer icon if the applet is in a horizontal panel that is larger than a certain size or if the applet is in a vertical panel
* Updated French translation (Frederic Grollier)

March 22, 2005 - Timer Applet 0.9 release

NOTE: Due to a small change in the GConf schemas, this version of Timer Applet may forget your previous Timer Applet preferences. You'll have to re-configure your preferences for this new version. Sorry the inconvenience. This is part of some polishing for the 1.0 release.

New in this release:
* Display name of completed timer in "Timer Finished" dialog
* Display name of timer to be resumed in "Resume Timer" dialog
* Added new options for keeping the notification dialog above all other windows and for making it appear on all workspaces
* Added French documentation (Frederic Grollier)
* Updated French translation (Frederic Grollier)
* Various tweaks and code clean-ups


March 16, 2005 - Timer Applet 0.8 release
The main attraction of this release is that the preferences now apply per-applet and each applet now remembers its last-used timer or preset.

NOTE: Because I renamed two files (/usr/lib/bonobo/servers/timer-applet.server to GNOME_TimerApplet.server, and /usr/share/gnome-2.0/timer-applet.xml to GNOME_TimerApplet.xml) between version 0.7 and version 0.8, the old files will still remain if you install Timer Applet 0.8 or newer without uninstalling a previous Timer Applet of version 0.7 or older. This is just a minor detail that shouldn't cause any problems, but if you want things to be a bit "neater", then you should uninstall the older version of Timer Applet before installing a new version.

New in this release:
* Allows the user to set preferences on a per-applet basis
* Remembers the last-used timer or preset even after the user restarts the computer
* Added documentation that uses the GNOME help browser
* "Help" menu item in the right-click menu now works
* Updated French translation (Frederic Grollier)
* Fixed compiler warnings
* Fixed translation-related warnings


March 4, 2005 - Timer Applet 0.7 release
New in this release:
* Simplified the Start Timer dialog.
* Fixed the Start Timer dialog so that it restores previous values if the user makes changes, but presses Cancel
* Made the Resume Timer dialog show the remaining time
* Fixed so that users can now edit existing presets
* Updated French translation (Frederic Grollier)

February 18, 2005 - Timer Applet 0.6 release
New in this release:
* Manage Presets window is now a dialog with a Close button
* Added intltool support (thanks to Frederic Grollier)
* Added Spanish translation (Rafael Bermúdez)
* Updated French translation (Frederic Grollier)
* Updated Swedish translation (Jan Morén)
* Added GConf schemas (thanks to Seth Hadley)

February 2, 2005 - Timer Applet 0.5.1 release
New in this release:
	* Fixed a bug that caused the applet to crash if the user closed the "Resume Timer" dialog with the close box

February 1, 2005 - Timer Applet 0.5 release
New in this release:
	* Start timer dialog defaults to last-used timer
	* Improved interface to allow the user to easily reset a paused timer
	* Patch to fix missing translation entries by Daniel Holbach
	* German translation by Daniel Holbach
	* French translation by Frederic Grollier
	* Swedish translation by Jan Morén
	* Various bug fixes

January 30, 2005 - Timer Applet 0.4 release
New in this release:
	* Gave the "Timer Finished" dialog a title
	* Made the "Timer Finished" dialog show when the countdown finished
	* Fixed compiler warning message
	* Fixed a GConf error message (thanks to Seth Hadley)
	* Fixed localization issues. Translations should now work!
	* Added a translation for Basque (thanks to Mikel Olasagasti)

January 18, 2005 - Timer Applet 0.3 released
New in this release:
	* Users can now add multiple timers to the panel and have them run simultaneously
	* Fixed a bug in which the timer loses the remaining time when it gets
paused on certain platforms, such as on PowerPC
	* Fixed a bug in which a paused/stopped timer would display the wrong time if the user hid and then showed the remaining time
	* Many other small bug fixes and improvements

January 11, 2005 - Timer Applet 0.2 released
New in this release:
	* Improved display of remaining time to reduce space usage on the panel (patch from Jan Morén)
	* Double-clicking a preset in the "Start Timer" dialog will immediately start the timer
	* Support for localization
	* Added mnemonics for Add, Edit, and Delete in the "Start Timer" dialog and "Manage Presets" window
	* Small tweaks and bug fixes

January 3, 2005 - Timer Applet 0.1 - Initial release
