Happypanda v0.28 Alpha

Not that relevant, but I will be taking a longer break from Happypanda to focus on my other projects (and more on school since exams are coming up), so the next update will be a bugfixes-only update with fixed bugs accumulated from this version. I can't give a date on when I'll be back but sometime after exams I guess, which is in 3-4 months.. I'll still be available to answer issues, mails and gitter chat.

Changelog

• Improved perfomance of grid view significantly
• Galleries are now draggable
  • It is now possible to add galleries to a list by dragging them to the list
• Improved metadata fetching accuracy from EH
• Improved gallery lists with new options
  • It is now possible to enable several search options on per gallerylist basis
  • A new Enforce option to enforce the gallerylist filter
• Improved gallery search
  • New special namespaced tags: read_count, date_added and last_read
    • Read more about them in the gallery searching guide
  • New < less than and > greater than operator to be used with some special namespaced tags
    • Read about it in the special namespaced tags section in the gallery searching guide
• Brought back the old way of gaining access to EX
  • Only to be used if you can't gain access to EX by logging in normally
• Added ability to specify arguments sent to viewer in settings (in the Advanced section)
  • If when opening a gallery only the first image was viewable by your viewer, try change the arguments sent to the viewer
• Updated the database to version 0.24 with the addition of new gallerylist fields
• Moved regex search option to searchbar
• Added grid spacing option in settings (Visual->Grid View)
• Added folder and file extensions ignoring in settings (Application->Ignore)
  • Folder and file extensions ignoring will work for the directory monitor and Add gallery.. and Populate from folder gallery adding methods
• Added new default language: Chinese
• Improved and fixed URL parser in gallery-downloader
• Custom languages will now be parsed from filenames along with the default languages
• Tags are now sorted alphabetically everywhere
• Gallerylists in contextmenu are also now sorted
• Reason for why metdata fecthing failed is now shown in the failed-to-get-metadata-gallery popup
• The current search term will now be upkeeped (upkept?) when switching between views
• Disabled some tray messages on linux to prevent crash
• The current gallerylist context will now be shown on the statusbar
• The keys del and shift + del are now bound to gallery deletion
• Added exclude/include in auto metadata fetcher in contextmenu for selection
• Bug fixes:
  • No thumbnails were created for images with incorrect extensions (namely png images with .jpg extension)
  • Only accounts with access to EX were able to login
  • Some filesystem events were not being detected
  • Name parser was not parsing languages
  • Some gallery attributes to not be added to the db on initial gallery creation
  • Attempting to fetch metadata while an instance of auto metadata fetcher was already running caused an exception
  • Gallery wasn't removed in view when removing from the duplicate-galleries popup
  • Other minor bugs

How to install & run

Mac

See INSTALL.md

Linux

See INSTALL.md
An executable will be available for the final release

Windows

1. Download the installer for windows below
2. Create a folder and extract to desired location (avoid locations where you need admin rights)
3. Run the program by clicking on Happypanda.exe

How to update

See here