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Albert v0.22.0 released

Albert

  • Add commandline option for logging filter rules
  • Add contour terminal
  • Add settingswindow shortcut action for plugin settings
  • Add feature copy and paste
  • Add “Run empty query” option
  • Add handler configurations tab
  • Sort fallbacks
  • LexSort items having equal score
  • Doxygen documentation

API 0.22:

  • TriggerQueryHandler
    • Add bool supportsFuzzyMatching()
    • Add bool fuzzyMatchingEnabled()
    • Add void setFuzzyMatchingEnabled(bool)
    • Add QString trigger() (the user configured one)
  • GlobalQueryHandler
    • Add applyUsageScore(…).
    • Inherit TQH, i.e. every handler is a TQH
  • IndexQueryHandler
    • Reimplement TQH fuzzy methods
    • Default synopsis
  • Plugin system
    • Revert multithreaded plugin laoding (Qt makes problems everywhere)
    • Statically inject metadata, use it for PluginInstances
    • Move native plugin interface into plugin:: namespace
    • Cache/Conf/Data dirs per plugin only (were per Extension)
    • Add PluginInstance::extensions()
    • Add Template based ExtensionPlugin(Instance)
    • Make native plugin a template class to allow subclassing any QObject
  • Frontend:
    • Add Frontend::winId, Move the window quirks to the core
    • Use appwide input history file
    • Add generic qml/widgets icon provider to interface
    • Add generic icon provider, creating icons on the fly
  • Fuctions and macros:
    • Put all free functions in albert.h
    • Add openUrl QUrl overload
    • Add convenience macros for user property definition
    • Require albert logging category to pass the name
    • Add state file
    • Add global settings factory
  • Rename History to InputHistory
  • Drop QueryHandler convenience class
  • Drop global albert.h include

Plugins

  • [clipboard]
    • Add paste action
  • [wbm]
    • Remove option “display icon”
    • Appwide input history
  • [websearch]
    • Adopt to sorted fallbacks, drop dragndrop in listview
    • Add drag’n’drop image feature
  • [snippets]
    • Add paste action
    • Snippets are now required to be txt files!
  • [qml:2.0] Revamped QML frontend
  • [python]
    • Mimic internal api as close as possible
    • Attach logging functions to plugin modules
    • Expose albert::setClipboardTextAndPaste
    • Expose albert::Notification
  • [files]
    • Show filePath instead path in subtext
    • Add option for case sentivity of fs browsers.
    • Add user property for inline config

Python plugins

  • Interface v2.0 stub
  • [emoji] New generic and platform agnostic emoji implementation
  • [duckduckgo] Add extension
  • [color] Add extension

And loads of other changes…

Check the GitHub repositories for details.