StarCalendar 3.2.0

Changes since StarCalendar 3.1.13

New icon/logo

• SVG (scalable), made with Inkscape

Major changes in Main Window and Customize window

• Add "Right Panel" to see user events and plugins' text

  • In Persian, it's located on the left, so it's translated to "Left Panel"
  • You can still disable Right Panel, and enable Events and Plugins below the calendar

• Re-design the layout of "Customize" window

  • Use a mix of vertical and horizontal layout for root widgets (first page of "Customize")
  • Allows Customize window to be smaller and work in smaller screens
  • Avoid automatically resizing Customize window
  • Improves the UX, and allows better use of space
  • Pagination similar to familiar UX of tablets and smart phones

• Allow freely resizing main window

  • In previous versions user could not resize the window vertically
    • User had to change the height of Month/Week/Day Calendars in Customize window
  • Month/Week/Day Calendars are expanded when window is resized
  • Height option is no longer needed and removed from Month/Week/Day Calendars

• Rewrite Events view widget (below calendar and in Right Panel), with some new features

  • It was a GtkHBox with many children, not it's only one GtkTreeView
  • Allow customizing separator between summary and decription of event
  • Add "Copy Event Text" item to right-click menu

Re-design Preferences window and Customize window

• Split everything into multiple pages (using Gtk.Stack)
• Makes the UX much better
• Organizes the options better
• Makes the window smaller, and compatible with smaller screens
• Becomes more similar to touchscreen operating systems
• Can switch to parent page by pressing Backspace (equal to "Back" button)

Add Day Calendar Window, aka "Desktop Widget"

• To use as a desktop widget, and alternative for status icon
• Plus the Customize window for it
• Add option to Preferences:
  General -> [ ] Open desktop widget on start

More features and options for Day Calendar as part of Main Window

• Most of the code is shared with Desktop Widget
• Options of Customize window are mostly the same, but values are independent
  • i.e. changing options of one does not effect the other
• New features (both in main window desktop widget)
  • Allow enabling week day name
    • With "Abbreviate" and "Uppercase" checkbox options
  • Show buttons to go to previous day, today and next day

Time Line: Features, improvements and refactoring

• Add Preferences for Time Line
• Add 3 buttons (left, right, stop) for controlling movement in time
• Fix/improve animation
• Minor features / improvements:
  • Show helper line on button-press when moving/resizing event box
  • Add a zoom icon that opens to menu to jump to specific round zoom levels

Window Controller: switch to svg, and add more options

• Allow customizing the size of icons (since svg is scalable)
• Allow customizing border (around buttons) and spacing (between buttons)
• Add a button to show/hide Right Panel

Replace most of .png icons with scalabale .svg icons

• Add .svg icons for some menu items and button without icon
• Add support for svg images in some parts of program that lacked support

Minor features and improvements

• Month Calendar: allow disabling day numbers of non-primary cal types
• Event Manager -> Import Events -> Switch to Stack (like Customize)
• Rename sub-menu "Add to" to "Add Event to" in day right-click menu
• Some optimization in Week Calendar
• Preferences -> Appearance -> Status Icon -> click on image selector button
  • Add preview in File Chooser dialog
• Replace "Font Family" chooser widget
  • It was a ComboBox, not it opens a dialog that allows search on type and shows preview
  • Used in Week Calendar customize options, and Status Icon preferences
• WeekCal: add Customize option to enable "Row Gradient" (as replacement for grid lines)

Switch away from Gtk's deprecated APIs and fix deprecation warnings

• Widget constructor calls with non-keyword arguments
• Gtk stock items (switch to icon names)
• height-request and width-request properties
• Gtk.HButtonBox
• Gtk.FontButton.get_font_name
• Gdk.Window.get_pointer
• Gdk.Window.cairo_create
• Gtk.Label.set_alignment
• Gtk.Dialog(buttons=...)
• Gtk.FileChooserButton.new_with_dialog
• ResourceWarning: unclosed file ... on open(...).read() and open(...).write(...)

Changes in package dependencies:

• Drop support for python3.5 to python3.7
  • Now only support python3.8 or later
• Depend on python3-gi >= 3.24
  • Because Gtk.FontChooser.set_level is added in version 3.24
• Optional dependency to gtksource-4 / gtksourceview4
• Optional dependency to ntpdate
• Optional dependency to python3-pygit2

Improvements in install scripts:

• Move all scripts to distro directory

  • Create symbolic links (to install-*) to keep compatibility

• Add install-auto.sh which automatically detects distribution

• Debian:

  • Add postrm script
    • to completely clean up /usr/share/starcal3 after package removal
  • Use apt instead of gdebi to install the package
    • Fallback to dpkg -i if apt was not found
    • If dpkg -i failed, run apt-get -f install to fix broken dependencies

• Add installers for FreeBSD, MidnightBSD, Alma Linux

• Update install-windows.bat

Switch from %-formatting to f-strings (added in python3.6)

• Use str.format for localized strings

Switch to Python's logging completely (no more print)

Add types and comments

Refactoring, cleaning, removing some legacy code and PEP-8 fixes

Add compatibilty with official Islamic calendar 1423 - 1426