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Albert v0.23.0 released

[albert]

  • i18n
  • Make fallback order settable in new query tab.
  • Load native plugins threaded.
  • Add –no-load cli param
  • Use hashmap and avoid exceptions. Twice as fast 🚀
  • Add german translation
  • Make “Show settings” action the default for plugin items
  • [API:v0.23]
    • Change frontend interface design
    • drop extensions() from PluginInstance interface. Extensions can now bei registered dynamically at any time.
    • Reduce the plugin system interfaces to the bare minimum
    • Allow hard plugin dependencies.
    • Private destructors for interfaces
    • Refactoring
      • ExtensionRegistry add > registerExtension
      • ExtensionRegistry remove > deregisterExtension
    • Make UI strings in the metadata required.
    • Allow plugins to have public interfaces
    • Revert to authors. Drop maintainers. (plugin metadata)
    • Remove polymorphism in PluginInstance id/name/description
    • Remove dynamic allocation of cache/config/dataDir()
    • Drop template parameter QOBJECT
    • Frontend is not an extension
    • Support localized metadata
    • CMake interface
      • Drop long_description from metadata
      • Add TS_FILES parameter to albert_plugin macro.
      • Revert back to json metadata file again
      • Complete metadata using cmake project details
      • Move Qt::Widgets into the public link interface

[plugins]

  • Support i18n
  • [python:4.2] Open external links in config labels by default
  • [widgetsboxmodel:7.1] Fix animation on linux
  • [qmlboxmodel] archive wip
  • [widgetsboxmodel:7.0]
    • Dark theme support
    • Themes update
    • Reproducible style (fusion)
    • Fix history search
    • Move persistent window position to state
    • Clear icon cache on hide
    • Archive unlicensed themes
    • Remove “Show fallbacks on empty result” option
    • Drop fonts from themes
  • [websearch:8.0]
    • Capital You_T_ube
    • Add Google translate default engine
  • [ssh:8.0]
    • Reduce complexity of this overengineered plugin
      • Remove quick connect
      • Remove known hosts
      • Remove file watchers (configs change not that often)
      • remove indexer mutexes
      • remove fuzzy index
  • [snippets:5.0]
    • Public extension interface “Add snippet”
  • [qmlboxmodel:3.0]
  • Archived
  • [python:4.0]
    • Drop source watches. a plugin provider cant just reload without notifying the plugin registry
    • API 2.2
      • PluginInstance.configWidget supports ‘label’
      • doc is not used anymore, since 0.23 drops long_description metadata
      • md_maintainers not used anymore
      • md_authors new optional field
  • [dictionary:3.0] Former platform_services
    • Rename plugin platform services to dict
  • [clipboard:3.0]
    • use snippets interface
  • [applications_macos:5.0]
    • Use KVO to track NSQuery results

[python]

  • Reinstate proper licensing
  • [virtualbox:1.6] Add info on vboxapi requirement
  • [docker:2.0] Show error on conn failure.
  • [pomodoro:1.5] Fix notifications
  • [pyi] v2.2
  • [inhibit_sleep:1.0] Similar to caffeine, theine, amphetamine etc…

Check the GitHub repositories for details.