MComix 1.00

Release date: 26.04.2013



    - When "Store information about recently opened files" is enabled in

      the preferences dialog, all opened books will automatically be added

      to the library and moved into the collection "Recent". In addition,

      the last read page will be stored and recalled the next time the book

      is opened again.



    - Fixed several malfunctions that could occur if no SQLite library

      was installed.



    - Fixed a bug that prevented MComix from showing the first page of an

      archive nested in other archives.



    - If both scrollbars were shown, it was impossible to scroll all the way

      down using the scrolling keys. This has been fixed.



    - When a directory was opened using the File->Open dialog, MComix did not

      sort files within the directory, ignoring the user's preferences.



    - "File->Refresh" did not restore the currently viewed page in archives.



    - Deleting a file in the library without closing the same file in the main

      window before no longer causes an exception.



    - The two images in double-page mode will now scale separately again.

      (by Valentin Gologuzov)



    - "Fit to size" mode no longer scales up small images unless "Stretch

      small images" is enabled as well.



    - If "Store information about recently opened files" is disabled,

      MComix will no longer remember the last browsed directory in the

      File->Open dialog.



    - Deleting a large amout of books from the library should be much

      faster now.



    - MComix now starts in RTL mode when a RTL language has been manually

      selected in the preference dialog.



    - Added an option to run arbitrary external commands on the currently

      opened file or archive. Commands can be edited from the "File->Open with"

      menu entry. The first item in this list can be accessed with the '1'

      key, the second using '2', and so on, up to '9' for command nine.



      The first argument to each command must be the absolute path to an

      executable, or an executable found in PATH, or an executable found in

      the specified working directory.



    - Added an option to automatically rotate images if their height exceeds

      their width (or width exceeds height), located in the menu bar under

      Tools -> Transform image -> Auto-rotate image.



    - Added a new preference option to control sorting of files within

      archives. Natural sort order is the default ordering, which sorts

      numbers in file names based on their natural order (e.g. 1, 2, .., 10),

      while literal order will use standard C sorting (e.g. 1, 23, 4).



    - "Reset zoom" is now bound to CTRL-0 and KeyPad0 by default. Previously,

      CTRL-0 and CTRL-KeyPad0 were used.



    - Using the Shift key with one of the next page / previous page

      keybindings will advance or go back by 10 pages instead of only one.



    - Added thumbnailer file for Gnome3 integration. Please note that

      comicthumb is unmaintained and not installed by MComix' setup routine

      by default.



    - MComix will no longer complain that the PIL library is missing when

      a user has Pillow (a PIL fork) installed.



    - Updated traditional Chinese translation (by Wayne Su).



    - Updated Hebrew translation (by Isratine Citizen).



    - Updated Japanese translation (by Toshiharu Kudoh).



    - Updated Spanish translation (by Carlos Feliu).



    - Updated simplified Chinese translation (by Zach Cheung).



    - Updated French translation (by Frédéric Chateaux).



    - Updated Italian translation (by Giovanni Scafora).



MComix 0.99

Release date: 14.07.2012



    - Fixed "Go to page" dialog's thumbnail not scaling depending on dialog

      size.



    - Using the mouse wheel to scroll left now correctly advances to the

      next page in manga mode, instead of going back one page. Scrolling right

      has also been fixed.



    - Multiple open instances of MComix no longer overwrite each others'

      bookmarks when closed.



    - Fixed exception when trying to pack an archive using the archive editor.



    - Fixed a bug that prevented using the "Next archive"/"Previous archive"

      buttons when an empty archive was loaded (by Gabriel Falcone).



    - "Smart scrolling" now also works with the mouse wheel. In smart

      scrolling mode, MComix tries to follow the natural reading flow of a

      comic book by not only scrolling up or down, but also sideways.

      Please not that smart scrolling does not work in "Fit to width" or "Best

      fit mode", as there is no need to scroll sideways in these modes.



    - Zoom is now enabled in all fit modes (best fit, fit to width, fit to

      height).



    - Added new zoom mode 'Fit to size'. This mode always stretches an image

      to a given height or width. By default, a height of 1800px is set.

      This can be changed in the preferences dialog.



    - Most confirmation dialogs can now be permanently disabled by activating

      the "Do not ask again" checkbox in each dialog. This action can be

      undone by clicking on "Clear dialog choices" in the preferences dialog.



    - Added new preference option for switching between different resizing

      algorithms (higher quality usually means longer page loading times).



    - Added "Scan now" button to library watch list dialog to trigger

      immediate update. Also added an option to scan directories recursively.

      Automatically scanning for new books every time the library is opened

      can now be disabled in the watch list dialog.



    - The watch list feature no longer tries to add archive formats that

      aren't currently supported, i.e. no .7z archives when 7z isn't

      installed or found.



    - Added an option to quit the program when the ESC key is pressed. When

      disabled, ESC only exits fullscreen mode. ESC now also closes the

      library.



    - Added a new menu item to minimize the MComix window, bound to "N" by

      default.



    - Updated traditional Chinese translation (by Wayne Su).



    - Updated Italian translation (by Giovanni Scafora).



    - Added Hebrew translation (by Isratine Citizen).



MComix 0.98

Release date: 09.04.2012



    - Fixed a bug that occasionally caused MComix to display wrong images

      after deleting an image from a directory.



    - Fixed a bug that caused MComix to jump back up after scrolling down when

      an archive was still being loaded.



    - Fixed NumLock being enabled breaking other keybindings containing

      Shift, Alt or Ctrl (e.g. smart scrolling with space).



    - The last-read-page module now falls back to pysqlite2 if sqlite3 isn't

      available.



    - The library can now scan directories for new files every time it is

      started, and automatically add new books. Watched directories can be

      edited with the "Watch list" button in the library main window.



    - Added "Date added" to library sort criteriae. This might be slightly

      inaccurate for older library entries, as only the day, not the time of

      the moment a book was added used to be stored in the library database.



    - Improved performance for library book area and thumbnail side bar by

      only loading thumbnails when they become visible, e.g. triggered by the

      user scrolling around. The "Delay thumbnail generation" option has thus

      been removed.



    - Greatly improved performance for browsing directories with many images.



    - Updated Japanese translation (by Toshiharu Kudoh).



    - Updated French translation (by Frédéric Chateaux).



MComix 0.97.1

Release date: 18.02.2012



    - Corrected libunrar regression. (thanks to Giovanni Scafora for pointing

      this out)



MComix 0.97

Release date: 17.02.2012



    - Fixed segmentation fault on x64 platforms when trying to extract RAR

      archives with libunrar.



    - The lens now uses the original pixbuf when preparing the magnified image

      instead of the already scaled pixbuf that is shown in MComix' display

      area. In addition, fixed zero division error when trying to use the lens

      on images with width greatly exceeding height.



    - If 'Auto load last opened file' was enabled in the preferences, MComix

      would try to load an invalid path if no file was opened when MComix was

      last closed.



    - Menu item hotkeys can now be changed by hovering over a menu item with

      the mouse and pressing the desired key, or key combination.

      (by Juha Sahakangas and Alan Horkan)



    - All other hotkeys (such as keys for scrolling or zooming) can now be

      customized by editing keybindings.conf in MComix' configuration

      directory, i.e. ~/.config/mcomix on Linux or %HOMEPATH%/MComix on

      Windows. MComix must not be running while editing the file, or changes

      will be overwritten once the program exits.



    - Removed error nag box that would pop up after program shutdown on

      Windows occasionally.



    - The order in which files are loaded and displayed can now be customized

      in the "Advanced" tab of the preferences dialog. Files can be sorted

      either by name, file size, or by last-modified date. This change does

      not affect ordering of files inside archives.

      (by C Nelson)



    - MComix can now automatically remember the last read page in archive

      files. When an archive is opened, the last read page will be loaded if

      "Store information about recently opened files" is set to "File names

      and last read page" (see "Behaviour" tab of the preferences window).



    - Updated Italian translation (by Giovanni Scafora).



MComix 0.96

Release date: 24.12.2011



    - Opening a RAR archive with 7z would destroy the archive, leaving only

      a 0-byte file. This has been fixed.



    - Fixed MComix opening files in other directories after scrolling past the

      first page, even when "Automatically open next directory" was disabled.



    - Fixed a bug that would hang MComix when trying to open a

      password-protected RAR archive.



    - MComix no longer restores the last opened file when it was terminated

      abnormally.



    - Files opened outside of archives are now naturally sorted (e.g. 1.jpg,

      2.jpg, 10.jpg instead of 1.jpg, 10.jpg, 2.jpg). Before, only images

      within archives were naturally sorted.



    - The preference option "Show only one page where appropriate" has been

      split up to allow controlling whether certain pages should be displayed

      as single page in double page mode (title pages/wide pages/none).



    - "Delete" is now bound to "DEL" instead of "F8" for consistency with most

      other desktop applications.



    - Updated traditional Chinese translation (by Wayne Su).



MComix 0.95

Release date: 05.11.2011



    - mcomix/mcomixstarter.py has been moved out of the mcomix package into

      the root directory of the mcomix distribution.



      Note for packagers: Please do not directly symlink a file in /usr/bin to

      mcomix/run.py! Use the wrapper generated by 'setup.py install' instead,

      or a script similar to mcomixstarter.py.



    - Fixed library freezing up when displaying large amounts of books.

      In addition, changes to cover size and sort order weren't kept

      across program restarts.



    - Fixed "Copy to clipboard" doing nothing on Win32.



    - Fixed freezing on password-protected 7zip archives. Please not that such

      files currently aren't supported and will always appear empty in MComix.



    - The All-in-one package on Win32 should now use the native Windows theme.



    - Fix MComix crashing on startup when opening a file in a directory

      that contains names Python cannot directly convert to Unicode strings.

      (by Joseph Seaton)



    - Selecting "Japanese" from the language dropdown box in the preferences

      dialog reverted the language to English.



    - Added support for reading archives in archives.

      (by David Pineau)



    - Reduced minumum slideshow scrolling delay. With small values here and in

      scrolling distance (e.g. 0.05s, 1px), MComix can simulate "smooth"

      scrolling.



    - The "Dynamic background color" option now uses a color that should be

      closer to a page's actual edge color.



    - Removed preference options for 'Use double page mode by default' and

      'Use manga mode by default'. The last used settings will be remembered

      instead.



    - The OSD is now used more frequently for displaying error messages that

      would only appear in the status bar or in the console before.

      In addition, the OSD can now be triggered with mouse button 4, as well

      as with the TAB key.



    - Updated French translation. (by Frédéric Chateaux)



MComix 0.94

Release date: 27.09.2011



    - Fixed MComix opening archives in sibling directories

      even when "Automatically open next archive" was disabled.



    - Fixed recursively adding directories to the library not working

      consistently on Win32.



    - Fixed the first command line argument to MComix being ignored on Win32,

      breaking "Open with..." functionality.



    - The library window has been slighly reorganized. All collection-related

      functionality can now be accessed via the right-click popup on the

      collection panel to the left. Similiarily, "Add books" is now on the

      main book panel popup. Additionally, CTRL-SHIFT-A has been set as

      shortcut for this action.



    - Library covers will now be cached after being loaded. This will avoid

      frequent reloading when switching between collections, or when filtering

      books.



    - The magnifying lens can no longer become partially invisible when moving

      around near window edges, and should no longer flicker.



    - MComix automatically switching to next/previous directories can now

      be controlled with a new preference option.



    - Updated French translation. (by Frédéric Chateaux)



MComix 0.93

Release date: 27.08.2011



    - Removing a book from the library while its thumbnail wasn't loaded yet

      would result in a segmentation fault. This issue has been fixed.



    - Fixed sorting in the bookmark edit dialog not working as expected. The

      buttons "Sort ascending" and "Sort descending" have been removed, as

      they did the same as clicking on the "Name" header of the bookmarks

      table. Double-clicking a bookmark will open it.



    - Fixed a bug that made it impossible to show toolbar/menu controls in

      fullscreen mode if "Automatically hide all toolbars in fullscreen" was

      enabled.



    - Fixed exception related to calculation of dynamic background colors.

      (by Nephiel)



    - Library collection names did not accept non-ASCII characters. This has

      been fixed.



    - Added support for LHA/LZH archives, using either 'lha' or '7z' as

      extractors. Please not that the '7z' executable on Windows does not

      support printing Unicode characters at all, so extracting an archive with

      non-ASCII filenames will always fail.



    - By selecting a folder instead of a file in the library's "Add book"

      dialog, all archives within the selected directory will be added to the

      library recursively.



    - Doing the same in the normal "Open" dialog will open all files within the

      directory.



    - MComix will now ask for confirmation when creating a new bookmark in an

      archive that was already bookmarked before. This allows the user to

      either create a new bookmark, or replace the old one with the current

      page.



    - ALT+Left mouse button and ALT+Right now advance one page, while ALT+Right

      mouse button/ALT+Left go back one page.



    - When on the last page, advancing to the next page will load files from

      the next sibling directory - holding CTRL is no longer necessary.



    - Added a new option to invert the smart scrolling direction. Instead of

      going left/right, then top/bottom, MComix will scroll top/bottom, then

      left/right.



    - Settings in the Enhance dialog can now be remembered using the "Save"

      button.



    - The option "Stretch small images" now increases an image's base size

      when using manual zoom mode.



    - Information shown in the status bar can now be enabled/disabled

      separately by right-clicking on the status bar and toggling the

      respective check box.



    - By pressing TAB, an OSD-like panel will be displayed, showing the current

      page and file.



    - MComix can now use Chardet (http://chardet.feedparser.org) for guessing

      filename encodings in archives, if installed. If file names are too

      short, the detection will still be hit-and-miss.



MComix 0.92

Release date: 27.05.2011



    - Fixed a bug that made MComix save preview thumbnails to disk

      even if this behaviour was disabled in the preferences window.



    - Fixed a bug in the the archive editor that prevented it from actually

      saving the modified archive on Win32.



    - Added limited support for password-protected ZIP and RAR archives.

      For ZIP archives, Python >= 2.6 is required. For RAR archives,

      only extraction with libunrar/unrar.dll is supported.



    - Added a combobox to the library dialog to enable sorting of books

      based on file name, full path, or file size.



    - If a library collection has sub-collections, the books from these

      sub-collections will be shown as well when the collection is opened.



    - The "Bookmarks" menu can be accessed via the normal menu bar again.

      "Clear bookmarks" has been removed in favour of using the "Edit

      bookmarks" dialog.

      (by Alan Horkan)



    - Several usability improvements were done to the Enhance, Edit and

      Library dialogs.

      (by Alan Horkan)



    - If applications for extracting RAR or 7Z archives aren't found on

      start-up, MComix will no longer allow selecting the corresponding file

      types in the "Open" dialog.

      (suggested by Alan Horkan)



    - The "Copy" menu item will now copy the current file name to the

      clipboard, in addition to the currently opened page as bitmap.



    - The currently opened file or archive can now be deleted using

      File -> Delete, or by pressing F8.



    - Added an option to use the first page of an archive as application

      icon instead of the standard MComix icon. (inspired by Alexandr

      Domrachev)



    - Added an option to manually change the user interface language

      used by MComix. Changes to the language require an application

      restart to take effect.



    - Added the following new command line switches:

      -m                  Manga mode

      -s                  Slideshow

      -d                  Double-page mode

      -b, -w, -h          Fit best/width/height, respectively.

      (suggested by Anonymous on the Comix tracker, adapted by Alan Horkan)

      -W[all|warn|error]  Set log level (default is 'warn')



    - The following preference items have been removed:

      "Automated crash recovery": No longer necessary.

      "Show page numbers": Enabled by default.

      "Avoid unintentional page flips": Enabled by default.

      "Stretch small images": Now in Menu->View->Stretch small images.

      "Default zoom mode": Last setting is remembered instead.



    - Updated Japanese translation. (by Keita Haga)



    - Updated French translation. (by Joseph M. Sleiman)



MComix 0.91

Release date: 24.04.2011



    - Fixed excessive memory consumption due to cached pixmaps not being

      properly evicted.



    - Fixed certain wait conditions that prevented MComix from exiting

      on Win32.



    - Fixed "Remove from the library" deleting the actual book instead of

      its library thumbnail.



    - The "Go to page" dialog now shows thumbnails when they are available,

      not only after all thumbnails have been loaded. Additionally,

      some usability improvements have been done to the dialog, such as

      instantly updating the thumbnail when editing the page box, and setting

      focus to the page box when the dialog is opened.



    - When passing more than one file to MComix at startup, only those files

      will be opened. This differs from the traditional behavior, where

      MComix would only consider the first file and open all remaining

      files in the same directory.

      If the passed files are archives, MComix will only open these archives

      when "Automatically open next archive" is enabled. If only a single file

      is passed, MComix will keep opening all files in that directory.



    - When the first/last file of a directory is open, pressing CTRL and

      advancing to the previous/next page (e.g. by pressing CTRL+Space),

      files in the previous/next sibling directory will be opened.

      Note that this feature is disabled by intent when MComix has been

      opened with a list of more than one file.



      This feature is also available via CTRL+N/CTRL+P, or the menu bar.



    - Speed up thumbnail generation by parallelizing load tasks.

      (inspired by David Zaragoza, who originally suggested to use

      processes instead of threads)



    - Library cover generation is now parallelized as well.



    - New option to delay loading of thumbnails. This way, thumbnails will

      only be generated when they are actually needed, i.e. the thumbnail

      sidebar is open or "Go to page" is used.



    - Minor options have been moved into a new tab in the preferences dialog.



    - MComix' configuration files are now stored in ~/.config/mcomix instead

      of in ~/.local/share/mcomix, as originally intended.



    - Added the toolbar show/hide menu to the right-click popup. Previously,

      if the menu bar had been disabled using the normal menu, there was no

      way to get it back.



    - The menu bar can now also be shown/hidden using CTRL+M.

      (by Alan Horkan)



    - MComix could not switch back to windowed mode when started in fullscreen

      mode on Win32.



    - The MComix window will no longer close instantly after starting up when

      reporting an error due to unsatisfied dependencies on Win32.



    - Fixed the settings dialog window no longer opening when it has been

      closed with the X icon on the dialog before.



    - Fix "Automatically open next archive" with empty archives.



    - Fixed magnifiying lens being broken when the page was rotated in any

      way.



    - Fixed setup.py failing when no X session was started.



    - Required Python version is now 2.5 or newer.



    - Updated Swedish translation. (by Martin Karlsson)



    - Updated Russian translation. (by Евгений Лежнин)



MComix 0.90.3

Release date: 13.03.2011



    - MComix now uses a slightly different directory structure than before.

      The 'src' folder is now 'mcomix' to provide a correct package name.

      'mcomix.py' is now 'mcomixstarter.py' to avoid confusing Python by

      having a module with the same name as the package around.

      Translations and images required by the GUI are now sub-packages of

      'mcomix'.



      A setuptools-based setup.py replaces install.py. This should help for

      uniform installs across different operating systems.



    - Several strings have been reworked to ease localization.



    - Added ability to apply current changes in the edit archive window.



    - Various usability fixes on Win32, including Unicode filenames,

      loading speed, recently opened files not being displayed,

      temporary directories not being deleted, crashing due to missing

      icons, MIME type file filters in the "Open" dialog not working,

      thumbnails being regenerated unnecessarily, and others.



    - Magnifying lens is now hotkeyed to 'L', while 'G' is Go to page. (by

      Nephiel)



    - Right-click menu is now more suitable for fullscreen reading, adding

      several menu items previously only available via normal menu. (by

      Nephiel)



    - Additional RAR handler using libunrar.so/unrar.dll.



      Added archive handler using Rarlab's libunrar library

      for extracting files. Apart from being faster for sequential

      extractions than calling unrar for each single file,

      this library supports Unicode filenames natively and thus

      allows Windows users to read most RAR files.

      Libunrar can be obtained from http://www.rarlab.com/rar_add.htm

      and can be placed either in usual system directories such as

      /usr/lib or C:\Windows\system32, or directly in MComix' root directory.



    - Fixed rar/unrar failing regularly on Win32 when the archive contains

      files not matching the current locale.



    - Go to Page is now enabled even when the archive is still loading. (by

      Nephiel)



    - Added support for the 7zip archive format. As with rar/unrar, this

      requires the "7z" executable being installed and on PATH.



    - When pressing CTRL while being in double page mode, stepping forwards

      and backwards will now always only advance/go back one image instead of

      possibly two.



    - Graceful shutdown on SIGTERM. (by Marco Nicolini)



    - Switching pages while in slideshow mode now resets the slideshow timer.

      (by Anonymous)



    - When opening an archive in double page mode, the first page (i.e. the

      cover) is displayed as single page.



    - The currently opened file can now be extracted from archives using

      the 'Save as...' menu item.



    - Fixed thumbnail size preference not being respected, and scaling of

      book covers in the library dialog being broken.



    - Files in the library can now be opened without closing the library

      window using the right-click popup menu.



    - Reordered various menu items.



    - A possible deadlock that could occur when opening archive files has been

      fixed.



    - Updated German translation.



MComix 0.90 Initial Release

Release date: 15.08.2010



    - Changed the mechanism of page flipping.



    - Added preferences to allow changing scrolling amount with arrow keys and mouse scroll button.



    - Added auto scrolling functionality.



    - Changed automatic background color selection algorithm to random sampling instead of

      only edge sampling.



    - Fixed non-recognition of pbm, pgm, and ppm images in archives.



    - Added save and quit functionality.



    - Added crash recovery.



    - Added bookmark sorting.



    - Added changed focus page protection option.



    - Added refresh button and capability.



    - Added color preference and selection for thumbnail bar background color.



    - Fixed lens not magnifying the enhanced image.



    - Added file deletion to the Library right-click option window.



    - Added recursive book adding in the Library (if you select more than one folder in the

      book selection window.



    - Split each file to only contain one class per file (except labels.py).



    - Fixed file name ampersand encoding error.



    - Added page selector with page preview.



    - Added preference regarding the number of keys pressed needed to flip the page.



    - Added next archive and previous archive buttons.



    - Added copy (CTRL+C) functionality which allows copying of the current image.



    - Added thumbnail cacheing and threading.



    - Added threaded page cacheing and cacheing preferences.



    - Added the preference to turn on/off page number display.



Comix is forked and becomes MComix



Comix 4.0.5



    - Added a Ukrainian translation by Олександр Заяц.



    - Added a Galician translation by Roxerio Roxo Carrillo.



    - The German translation updated for Comix 4 by Chris Leick.



    - Added support for BMP images in archives. Thanks to Nathaniel Moseley.



    - The status bar now displays the filename of the viewed image files also

    in archives.



    - Fixed a bug that caused the wrong background colour to be used with the

    dynamic background colour preference on some systems. Thanks to Nathaniel

    Moseley.



    - Fixed a bug that could cause the thumbnail maintenance dialog to crash.



    - Fixed a bug that caused the zoom scale in manual zoom mode to be wrong

    when using double page mode.





Comix 4.0.4



    - Applied a workaround for a bug that caused the "Open" dialog to crash

    when trying to open a file when the file type filter had been reset to

    blank. This bug seems to only appear on some systems, probably depending

    on the installed GTK+ version.



    - Fixed a bug that caused the error message for unfulfilled dependencies

    to not be printed properly.



    - The rar/unrar program is now invoked in such a way as to keep broken

    or incomplete files extracted from RAR archives, since Comix might be

    able to display parts of these files anyway.



Comix 4.0.3



    - Hungarian translation updated by Ernő Drabik.



    - French translation updated by Benoît H.



    - Added a feature to automatically rotate images according to their

    EXIF tags.



    - Fixed a bug that caused drag-n-drop actions from KDE applications to

    not work properly.



    - Fixed some bugs that caused problems with non-UTF-8 filename encodings.



    - Fixed a bug that caused the manual zoom mode to not work as expected

    when set as the default mode.



    - Comix now accepts directories as command-line arguments.



    - Added command-line arguments to start Comix in fullscreen mode and to

    display the library on startup.



    - Comix preferences and data now reside in the $XDG_CONFIG_HOME and

    $XDG_DATA_HOME directories instead of in ~/.comix/.



    - Some minor interface enhancements.



Comix 4.0.2



    - Brazilian Portuguese translation updated by Marcelo Góes.



    - Traditional Chinese translation updated by Wayne Su.



    - Catalan translation updated by Carles Escrig Royo.



    - Internal filenames in archives created by the archive editing dialog

    no longer contain temporary filename cruft.



Comix 4.0.1



    - Croatian translation updated by Adrian C.



    - Polish translation updated by Darek Jakoniuk.



    - Russian translation updated by Артем Смирнов.



    - Simplified Chinese translation updated by Xie Yanbo.



    - Re-added the "flip pages when scrolling off the page" preference

    from previous Comix versions. Thanks to Mamoru Tasaka.



    - Added a portability module for handling home directories in a more

    portable way. Thanks to Oddegamra.



Comix 4.0.0



    - Comix has been completely rewritten from scratch. On the surface things

    look quite a bit like they used to, but the internal workings are

    entirely new. There are too many changes for them all to be mentioned

    here, but a couple of highlights are a much more functional library and a

    new archive editing dialog. The work on this new version of Comix has

    been going on in rather sporadic phases for almost two years, and during

    that time I have received help from lots of different people. Now, I must

    admit, I can no longer remember them all. So instead of trying to list as

    many as I can here, I will instead simply say thank you to everyone who

    have contributed fixes, patches, suggestions or encouraging words. Thanks!



Comix 3.6.5



    - Applied security fix patches to handle unsecure tempfile creation and

    character escaping in filenames. Thanks to Mamoru Tasaka and others for

    the patches.



    - Added a Korean translation by 김민기.



    - Added a Persian translation by Maryam Sanaat.



    - Added a Indonesian translation by Andhika Padmawan.



    - Added a Czech translation by Jan Nekvasil.



Comix 3.6.4



    - Added a Russian translation by Artyom Smirnov.



    - Added a Croatian translation by Adrian C.



    - Fixed a bug in the thumbnailer, comicthumb, failing to create thumbnails

    for Zip and tar archives.



    - Some minor changes.





Comix 3.6.3



    - Added a Hungarian translation by Ernő Drabik.



    - Added a patch by Abdullah Hamed that fixes so that the arrow keys can be

    used to flip pages also when not in fit-to-screen mode when the

    corresponding preference is set. Just like was possible only with the

    scroll wheel before.



    - Fixed a bug with opening certain Zip files. Thanks to Steve Juranich for

    the fix.



    - Fixed a bug concerning %'s in filenames.



Comix 3.6.2



    - Added Japanese translation by Mamoru Tasaka.



Comix 3.6.1



    - Updated Brazilian Portuguese and Dutch translations.



Comix 3.6



    - Added an "Adjust colour" dialog that lets you specify values for

    brightness, contrast, saturation and sharpness.



    - Improved the behaviour of the "Save window position and size" and

    "Default fullscreen" preferences.



    - Changed the "Save window position and size" preference to on by default.



    - Changed the menus a bit.



    - Improved autocontrast (slightly heavier contrast change).



    - Changed the UI of the properties dialog a bit to better suit low

    resolution screens.



    - Improved handling of Zip files containing files with filenames of an

    unknown character encoding.



    - Added extra error message to install.py that is displayed when trying to

    install into a non-existing directory.



    - Added a --no-balloon option to install.py that tells the Nautilus

    thumbnailer to not imprint balloon images on thumbnails by default.



    - Fixed a bug that could cause Comix to scale images to the wrong

    dimensions on a dual-screen setup. Thanks to Vegard Eriksen for this fix.



    - Fixed a bug that caused icons to not be loaded when starting Comix

    through a symbolic link not located in the same directory as the `comix`

    executable.



    - Fixed a bug that could cause an error message when going back to a

    previous archive by flipping backwards in double page mode and directly

    switching to single page mode afterwards.



    - Fixed a bug that caused Comix to treat empty files as tar archives.

    Thanks to Christoph Wolk for this fix.



    - Fixed a bug in comicthumb with thumbnailing rar archives, plus

    some cleanup. (Christoph Wolk)



Comix 3.5.1



    - Fixed a bug that caused the mode of all images to be reported as

    "unknown" instead of RGB/CMYK etc.



    - Fixed a bug that could cause an error when trying to quit Comix under

    certain circumstances (i.e. when there is no ~/.comix/menu_thumbnails/

    directory present).



Comix 3.5



    - Added a bunch of new icons, including a new "logo".



    - The magnifying lens code has been polished a bit. It is now

    substantially faster so the lens should appear less choppy.



    - Added horizontal and vertical lossless JPEG flip commands.



    - Added a JPEG desaturation command.



    - Added support for SVG, PCX, PNM, PBM, PGM, PPM, Targa and Sun raster

    image files.



    - Rearranged the toolbar a bit and added tooltips to it.



    - When a directory is given as a command line parameter, Comix now

    recursively searches for cbr, cbz and cbt files as well as image files.



    - Changed install.py so that it aborts installation if the required

    dependencies are not found.



    - Fixed a bug that caused the space key to not scroll down when in double

    page mode and manga mode and the window is wider than the pages.



    - Applied a workaround for a bug(?) in WindowMaker that caused problems

    when using the "fullscreen as default" preference.



    - Fixed a memory leak in the magnifying lens code.



    - Some internal and some minor changes.



Comix 3.4



    - Added more image data to the properties dialog.



    - Added a "delete image" command that can remove single images from Comix.

    It is currently not possible to remove image files within archives.



    - Added lossless JPEG rotation commands. It is currently not possible to

    rotate image files within archives. The `jpegtran` program (part of the

    jpeg library) must be present for this to work. Comix can still run as

    normal without `jpegtran`, but then without the new JPEG rotation

    capabilities.



    - Changed the buttons in the toolbar.



    - Improved the space key smart scrolling mode so that it automatically

    performs all the sideways scrolling as well.



    - Added a preference to set the magnitude of the space key scroll in

    percentages of either the window size or the page size.



    - Added a Traditional Chinese translation by Hsin-Lin Cheng.



    - Comments are now displayed using a monospaced font.



    - Comments can now be dragged around with the mouse just like an image.



    - Directories can now be given as command line parameters as well as

    files. If a directory is given it will be recursed into and the first

    image file found will be loaded.



    - Improved cover guessing of comicthumb and the library a bit.



    - Handling of files that have filenames encoded with the wrong

     character encoding is now more sturdy.



     - Fixed a bug that could cause outdated thumbnails to be left in the

     ~/.comix/menu_thumbnails/ directory when running multiple instances of

     Comix at the same time.



     - Applied a workaround for a bug(?) in WindowMaker that caused the "Open

     dialog" to be invisible while in fullscreen mode when using WindowMaker.

     The same problem applies to the library window, but there is no

     workaround for that in place currently.



     - Fixed a bug that could cause no images to be displayed when turning

     double page mode off, then on again and flipping to the next couple

     of pages in that order.



    - Some minor changes.



Comix 3.3



    - Added a slideshow feature.



    - Added RGB colour histogram to the properties dialog. More data will be

    added in future versions.



    - Added a Catalan translation by Carles Escrig.



    - Rewrote install.py from scratch.



    - Fixed a bug that caused compressed tar archives to be presented as

    plain tar archives.



    - Fixed a bug that could cause invalid page numbers in bookmarks when

    re-adding an already present bookmark.



    - Some minor changes.



Comix 3.2.1



    - Added support for the `rar` program in addition to `unrar` to handle

    RAR (.cbr) files.



    - Updated Polish translation by Kamil Leduchowski.



    - Some minor changes.



Comix 3.2



    - Changed PyGTK requirement to version 2.8 or higher.



    - Added a "Fit width mode" and a "Fit height mode" that automatically

    scales images to fit the width or height of the window.



    - Default filenames for extracted images are changed to

    <archive_name>_<page>.<ext> from <page>.<ext>.



    - Moved the manga mode setting from the preferences dialog to the menus.



    - Redesigned the library interface a bit. The background colour is now

    fixed and does not change with the background colour of the main window.

    Default thumbnail size is now 128x128 px, and thumbnails have a border to

    make them more clearly separated.



    - Added Greek translation by Paul Chatzidimitriou.



    - Xie Yanbo updated the Simplified Chinese translation.



    - Changed the menu icons for "Open library..." and "Add to library". The

    icons are taken from the Silk Icons set at www.famfamfam.com.



    - Broken images are now correctly handled by the thumbnail sidebar.



    - The workaround against a problem with unrar applied in version 3.1.3 has

    been removed again. It created some new problems with archives that

    have multiple files with the same filename in different subdirectories.



    - Fixed a bug so that translations and extra icons are always available

    when running Comix from the source directory, no matter what directory is

    the current working directory.



    - Fixed a bug in the "Go to page dialog" that caused the page to not be

    changed when manually typing in a new page number and pressing Enter.



    - Some minor changes.



Comix 3.1.3



    - Added Polish translation by Kamil Leduchowski.



    - Updated French translation by Achraf Cherti.



Comix 3.1.2



    - Fixed a bug which caused ALL files to be added to the library when

    adding in recursive mode instead of just archives. Also, only files with

    cbz, cbr or cbt as filename extension will now be added in recursive mode

    to avoid adding cruft files with the same magic numbers as the archives.



Comix 3.1.1



    - Added automatic dependency checking to install.py.



    - Added error messages and graceful exit from Comix in the case of missing

    dependencies.



    - Applied a workaround for a bug(?) in unrar that caused problems with

    some RAR archives containing directories with invalid filename encodings.

    Thanks to François Ingelrest.



    - Updated French translation by Achraf Cherti.



    - Changed the "Use stored thumbnails for images in archives" preference to

    off by default.



    - Changed the "Go to the next archive in directory after last page"

    preference to on by default.



Comix 3.1



    - Created a new convert dialog that is built from the standard GTK+ save

    dialog. It now supports saving in different directories etc.



    - Added an "Extract image" menu item that lets you extract individual

    images from the archive.



    - Added support for recursive adding of archives to the library.



    - Added a Frech translation by Achraf Cherti.



    - Fixed a bug which rendered the magnifying lens and the ability to drag

    images around with the mouse useless in some situations, and with some

    certain versions (7.0?) of X.org.



    - Pressing enter in the "Go to page" dialog entry now has the same effect

    as pressing OK.



    - Applied a workaround for a bug(?) in certain builds of PIL that made

    Comix crash when it tried to draw page numbers on thumbnails. Now Comix

    simply ignores the page numbers if this problem occurs and imforms the

    user that a different version of PIL is required, instead of crashing.



Comix 3.0.1



    - Added a Dutch translation by Arthur Nieuwland.



Comix 3.0



    - Major cleanup of the entire code base.



    - Completely redesigned the properties dialog.



    - Comix now stores a list of the 10 last viewed files. It also updates the

    ~/.recently-used file as is proposed by the freedesktop.org standard.

    Thanks to Jose M. daLuz.



    - Added an "Add to library" menu item.



    - Redesigned the library window slightly.



    - Added an Italian translation by Raimondo Giammanco.



    - The Nautilus thumbnailer, comicthumb, has been updated by Christoph Wolk

    to support subarchives among other things.



    - Added a preference to set the size of the magnifying lens. Thanks to

    Jose M. daLuz.



    - Added a scalable svg icon.



    - Improved handling of files without read permission.



    - Fixed a bug which caused the recommended name for a converted directory

    of images to be the same as one of the image files plus filename extension

    instead of the name of the directory plus filename extension. Thanks to

    Manuel Quiñones.



    - Fixed a bug with the magnifying lens which could appear when using it in

    double page mode and manga mode, possibly showing the images as if not in

    manga mode.



    - Fixed a bug which caused unnecessary reloading of files from disk when

    resizing images that is already in memory in double page mode.



    - Fixed a bug which could cause the wrong image to be displayed when

    continuously flipping forward really fast in cache mode.



    - Some minor fixes.



Comix 2.9



    - Added a comic book library feature to Comix. Comic book archives can be

    added to the library through a dialog or by drag and drop. The comic books

    appear as covers in the library window where they can be browsed or

    opened. They can be easily filtered by typing in regular expressions.



    - When dropping multiple files on the Comix main window, the first file

    gets opened now instead of none.



    - The convert dialog now saves the last used archive type.



    - Fixed a memory leak when creating new thumbnails from files.



    - Some minor fixes.



Comix 2.8



    - MIME types for cbz, cbr and cbt archives are now registered by default.

    Use the --no-mime flag for install.py to skip it.



    - Added a thumbnailer (by Christoph Wolk) that lets file managers create

    thumbnails for cbz, cbr and cbt archives. Currently it is only supported

    by Nautilus and does not affect other file managers. It is installed if

    the --no-mime flag is not given to install.py. Nautilus has to be

    restarted before the thumbnailer is activated.



    - Added a "Hide all" menu item which hides menubar, toolbar, statusbar,

    scrollbars and thumbnails at once.



    - Added an option to only display a single image in double page mode if

    that image consists of two pages. An image is assumed to consist of two

    pages if it's width is greater than it's height.



    - Filename is now displayed as well as directory name when viewing images

    in a directory in single page mode.



    - Changed max zoom to 1000% to prevent X server resource drains.



    - F11 can now be used to toggle fullscreen mode.



    - Fixed a bug which caused the cursor to be invisible when dragging around

    an image in fullscreen mode.



    - Fixed a bug which removed the drag and drop functionality.



    - Fixed a bug which could cause the scroll wheel to stop working when

    displaying the magnifying lens by pressing the middle mouse button,

    holding down the right mouse button and letting go the middle mouse button

    again.



    - Fixed a bug which could cause the chess board pattern background for

    small transparent images to be zoomed in or out when changing size.



    - Fixed a bug which could cause changes of saturation in small images to

    not be updated when changing it and changing it back again.



    - Fixed a bug which could cause the images to be scaled incorrectly when

    the "Use smart scaling in double page mode" preference was set.



    - Fixed a bug which caused the thumb selection not to be updated when

    moving from page two to page one in double page mode.



    - Some minor fixes.



Comix 2.7



    - Improved image quality through dithering in 16 bits per pixel. Thanks to

    John Ellis, the author of GQview, for helping me with this.



    - Added previews of files in the "Open" dialog. Stored thumbnails are used

    when they exist, otherwise previews are created directly from the files.

    Previews of archives are also available, but only when thumbnails have

    already been stored for that archive.



    - The cursor is now only being hidden when it has been idle for two

    seconds instead of always.



    - Changed "Hide cursor in fullscreen mode" to on by default.



    - Added chess board pattern as background for transparent images.



    - Added file filters to the "Open" dialog.



    - Saturation adjustment now affects the magnifying lens also.



    - Added Brazilian Portuguese translation by Marcelo Góes.



    - Added German translation by Christoph Wolk.



    - Added a "comix.xml" file which can be installed to register cbz, cbr and

    cbt mime types. Because of inconsistency on some systems, mime types are

    not registered by default. Follow the instructions in the mime README file

    to install. Thanks to Cristoph Wolk for this contribution.



    - Changed permissions of temporary folders to octal 700 to preserve the

    users privacy.



    - Added page number information to thumbnails generated for archives. This

    information will displayed for previews of archives if available.



    - Fixed a bug which caused the image width and height information embedded

    in thumbnails to be put in the wrong namespace of the PNG tEXt chunks.



    - Fixed possible wrong permissions of thumbnail folders on some systems.

    Permissions should now always be 700.



    - Fixed a bug which caused the magnifying lens to display the wrong page

    in manga mode (thanks Christoph Wolk).



    - Fixed a bug which could cause Comix to crash when trying to view a very

    small image scaled down so that it contained no pixels at all.



    - Some minor fixes.



Comix 2.6



    - Comix now conforms to the thumbnail managing standard as proposed by

    freedesktop.org. Thumbnails for plain image files can be read and written

    to ~/.thumbnails where they are shared with other applications conforming

    to the same standard. Thumbnails for images in archives can also be

    stored, but due to limitations in the standard they are stored in ~/.comix

    for private use by Comix only.



    - Improved handling of corrupt and missing files. Comix now simply

    displays a "file missing" image instead of terminating.



    - Added a menu entry for the lens toggle action.



    - Some minor fixes.



Comix 2.5



    - Added a mouse controlled "magnification lens" that can be used to zoom

    in on parts of the images. It will appear while holding the middle mouse

    button. Pressing 'z' can also toggle it on or off.



    - Added the ability to set the size of the thumbnails.



    - Improved the look of the bookmark handling features. Small thumbnails

    will now be displayed for the bookmarks.



    - Fixed a bug which caused one of the two images in double page mode to

    remain displayed even after using the "Close" command.



    - Fixed a bug which caused the "Use smart scaling in double page mode"

    preference to misbehave with rotated images.



    - Fixed a bug which caused the convert dialog to not automatically fill in

    a new filename for files with non-UTF8 filenames.



    - Some minor fixes.



Comix 2.4.1



    - Improved cache handling slightly.



    - FIxed a bug which could cause Comix to crash when starting with the

    "Save window position and size for future sessions" option turned on.



    - Fixed a bug which caused only one thumbnail to remain selected when

    clicking on the first of the two selected thumbnails in double page mode.



    - Fixed a bug which caused Comix to always go to the first page when

    reloading thumbnails in double page mode due to switching the "Show page

    numbers on thumbnails" on or off.



Comix 2.4



    - Added full support for internationalization (i18n). Apart from English,

    Comix is now translated to Swedish, Simplified Chinese and Spanish.



    - Added an option to let Comix automatically adjust the contrast of the

    images so that the darkest pixel is completely black and the lightest

    pixel is completely white.



    - Added an option to space key "smart scrolling" feature as if in double

    page mode even when in single page mode.



    - Added thin borders around the thumbnails so that they should be more

    easily distinguished.



    - Added accelerators for more menu items.



    - Fixed a bug which caused the wrong image to be displayed when viewing

    the third last and the second last pages in double page mode, exiting

    double page mode and flipping forward one page.



    - Fixed a bug which caused Comix to display no warning when trying to

    create a file in a directory where it does not have permission to do so.



Comix 2.3



    - Comix now depends on the Python Imaging Library

    (http://www.pythonware.com/products/pil/) to handle some image

    manipulations.



    - Added the ability to rotate and mirror images.



    - Added an option to set the contrast of the images.



    - Added an option to show the page numbers in the upper left corner of

    each thumbnail.



    - Cleaned up the preferences dialog a bit.



    - The arrow keys now flips pages in fit-to-screen mode.



    - Added an option to go to the same directory as last time when opening

    the "Open" dialog, instead of always going to a preset directory.



    - Fixed a bug which caused comments to not be displayed until after all

    thumbnails had been loaded when using the "Always view comments when

    opening a new file" option.



    - Fixed a bug which caused comment files in a directory, had their

    extensions been added to the comment extensions list while the directory

    was loaded, to not be opened correctly until the directory had been

    reloaded.



    - Fixed a bug which caused the scrollbars to not align themselves

    automatically when switching between viewing comments and viewing images.



    - Fixed a bug which caused the "Fit width", "Fit height" and "Best fit"

    commands to scale incorrectly when viewing thumbnails.



    - Fixed a bug which could cause the wrong image to be displayed if

    switching from one page to another and back again really quickly.



    - Some minor fixes.



Comix 2.2.1



    - Fixed a bug which caused underscores in bookmark names to be shown

    as underlines for the next character.



    - Fixed a bug which caused Comix to crash when trying to close the

    program while loading thumbnails for an archive/directory that was

    opened while loading thumbnails for the same archive/directory.



    - Fixed a bug which caused some events (e.g. switching fullscreen on/off),

    invoked while loading thumbnails, to be delayed until all the thumbnails

    had been loaded if they were invoked more than once during this loading.

    There are still some issues with events that in themself initiate the

    loading of thumbnails (e.g. open new file) being delayed if invoked

    multiple times during the loading. This should, however, not be a problem

    in most cases.



    - Fixed a bug which caused some thumbnails to not be displayed in whole

    when using certain GTK themes.



    - Fixed a bug which caused the selected thumbnails to not be updated

    properly when switching between single page and double page mode.



    - Fixed a bug which caused the thumbnail scrollbar to not update it's

    length when resizing the main window.



    - Made the automatic scrolling of the thumbnail pane more consequent

    in double page mode.



Comix 2.2



    - Added a thumbnail browser.



    - Added a "smart scrolling" option for the space key.



    - The number pad on the keyboard can now be used to align the image(s).

    '1' takes you to the lower left corner, '2' takes you to the middle of the

    bottom, '3' takes you to the lower right corner and so on for all nine

    digits.



    - Added an option to automatically open the last viewed page when Comix

    is started.



    - The zoom in and zoom out commands now zoom straight on, preserving

    the alignment of the viewed image(s).



    - Fixed a bug which caused images to be scaled slighty wrong during

    specific window size/image size combinations.



    - Fixed a bug which caused the wrong image to be displayed when jumping

    two pages forward with the cache option turned on in single page mode.



Comix 2.1



    - Made the dialogs more GNOME HIG compliant.



    - Added an option to let the scroll wheel scroll horizontally when at the

    top or bottom of the page.



    - Added an option to let the scroll wheel flip pages when scrolling "off

    the page".



    - Added an option to use smart scaling when in double page mode and

    fit-to-screen mode. The smart scaling feature makes the images scale

    independently so that no space is wasted. The largest of the images is

    scaled as before, but the smallest in now scaled up to fill any extra

    space.



    - Added an option to set the toolbar to show either icons, text or both.



    - The image can now be dragged around with the middle mouse button

    as well.



    - If adding a bookmark for an archive/directory that is already

    bookmarked, Comix now updates the page number of that bookmark

    instead of adding a new one.



    - Added tooltips for the preferences dialog.



    - Removed the zoom entry in the preferences dialog.



    - Made the cleanup of files in /tmp a bit more sturdy.



    - Fixed a bug which caused the scrollbars to not align themselves

    automatically when opening a new archive/folder.



    - Fixed a bug which caused changes to fullscreen, fit-to-screen mode etc.

    that were made while the preferences dialog was open to be reverted when

    the dialog was closed.



    - Fixed a bug which caused some images to appear twice if they were

    packed in an archive containing multiple subfolders.



    - Fixed a bug which caused some strange behaviour when (un)hiding the

    menubar after a bookmark had been added/removed.



    - Some minor fixes.



Comix 2.0



    - The text in the comments is now selectable.



    - Some minor (mainly cosmetic) changes.



Comix 2.0b



    - Comix 2.0b has a major speed advantage over previous versions.

    I rewrote some of the code, mainly the parts concerning the caching of

    images. Page flipping with the cache option turned off is now about

    twice as fast as before (not counting the time it takes to scale the

    image(s) since this is highly dependant on the image scaling quality being

    used). Forward page flipping with the cache option turned on now seems

    almost instantaneous (again not counting the possible delay to scale

    the image(s)). Backwards flipping with the cache option turned on is no

    longer suffering any speed penalty, it is just as fast as normal flipping

    without any cache would be. The only occasion when things will be slower

    with the cache option turned on is when doing irregular flipping, as from

    page 1 to page 7 to page 3 etc., and even then things will seem to be

    as fast as normal though some extra work is done "under the hood".

    Using cache is strongly recommended from now on.



    - Added a bookmarks manager that lets you add or remove single bookmarks.



    - Added support for image/x-icon, image/x-xpixmap and image/x-xbitmap

    image formats.



    - Changed the text entry field for the default path to a button which

    brings up a nice standard folder selection dialog.



    - The "Flip position of pages in double page mode" option, now called

    "Manga mode", automatically aligns the scrollbars to the upper-right

    corner of the window when flipping to a new page.



    - The "Hide menubar etc. in fullscreen" option now also affects the

    scrollbars.



    - Fixed a bug which caused temporary files to be overwritten when viewing

    two archives in two different Comix sessions at the same time.



    - Fixed a bug which caused the separators in the menus to disappear after

    a while.



    - Fixed a bug that caused the wrong page to be displayed when flipping

    backwards one step in double page mode, switching to one page mode,

    switching back to double page mode again and then flipping forward one

    step, all with the cache option set.



    - Lots of minor fixes.



Comix 1.6



    - The next page can now be flipped to by pressing the left mouse button

    on the main window. Images can still be moved around by clicking and

    dragging before you release the button again.



    - The "Hide cursor" option now only affect fullscreen.



    - Comix now sorts files by the standard set up by the LC_COLLATE

    environmental variable.



    - Added a new dialog to display an error message if the convert utility

    is used in some way to alter a file which the user does not have

    appropriate permissions to.



    - Fixed a bug with the wrong filename sometimes being shown in the

    properties dialog when viewing plain image files.



    - Fixed a bug with strange things happening when opening the

    preferences window in windowed mode and closing it in fullscreen mode

    and vice versa.



    - Fixed a bug with the "Hide menubar etc. in fullscreen" option not

    always working as expected.



    - Some minor fixes.



Comix 1.5



    - Added support for forward/back buttons on mice that have them.

    Thanks to Stephen Jones for this feature.



    - New option to set which filename extensions should be treated as

    comment files.



    - New option to automatically hide menubar etc. when entering

    fullscreen mode.



    - Improved the look of the properties dialog.



    - Fixed problems with parsing certain comment files.



    - Some minor fixes.



Comix 1.4



    - Added support for embedded archive comments in the form of .txt or

    .nfo files.



    - The convert utility now creates exact copies of the directory structure

    in the source archive/directory, including correct filenames.



    - The zoom in and zoom out commands now zoom 15% relative to the

    current size instead of 20% relative to the original size.



    - Changed default image scaling quality to "Tiles" from "Hyper".



    - Some minor fixes.



Comix 1.3.1



    - Fixed a bug with old cached images sometimes being shown when a new

    archive/directory had been opened.



Comix 1.3



    - The viewed page(s) can now be dragged around by pressing the mouse

    button and moving the cursor.



    - New option to cache the next page for faster forward page flipping.

    Continuous backwards flipping will be slower with this option. Slightly

    more RAM will be used as well.



    - Comix now handles manipulation of already loaded images (resizing,

    changing scaling technique, etc.) more efficiently due to less disk IO.



    - Fixed a bug that caused saved options to not be loaded when the

    program is restarted.



Comix 1.2



    - Drag and drop support.



    - Changed the install.py script slightly.



    - Added new error messages for the statusbar when trying to open

    non-valid files etc.



Comix 1.1.2



    - Applied a workaround for a bug(?) in newer versions of PyGTK, which made

    the OK button in the file selection dialog return the wrong value,

    rendering it useless. Thanks to neota for this solution.



Comix 1.1.1



    - The "file" dependancy is no longer needed. All mime type checks are now

    done internally.



    - Fixed an error in the .desktop file.



    - The install.py script now uses "update-desktop-database" to update the

    menus properly.



    - Some minor fixes.



Comix 1.1



    - Support for nestled archives, i.e. archives in archives.



    - The install.py script now includes a "--installdir" option to let the

    user choose the install directory, e.g. /usr instead of /usr/local.



    - Comix now includes a manpage.



    - Some minor fixes.



Comix 1.0.2



    - Added support for filenames encoded with various international

    character encodings.



    - Some minor fixes.



Comix 1.0.1



    - Fixed a bug with the background colour option not working as expected

    on certain systems.



Comix 1.0



    - Added an archive convert feature. Archives and directories can be

    converted to Zip, tar, tar.gz or tar.bz2.



    - More changes toward a hopefully more user-friendly GUI.



Comix 0.9



    - A number of efforts has been made to make Comix more GNOME HIG

    compliant.



    - Added optional menubar, toolbar and statusbar.



    - Added an option to hide the mouse cursor.



    - The space key now works in fit to screen mode as well.



    - Fixed a bug with certain hotkeys not working before the right-click menu

    had been shown the first time.



    - Fixed a bug with archive names sometimes being displayed incorrectly in

    the bookmarks menu.



    - Some minor fixes.



Comix 0.8



    - Comix now handles zip, tar, tar.gz and tar.bz2 archives

    internally. The unzip and tar programs are no longer needed.



    - New option to let you go to the next archive when flipping past the

    last page in the current archive, and vice versa for the first page.



    - Fixed a bug with small images sometimes being stretched to

    fit the screen although the corresponding option was not set.



    - Fixed a bug with exiting fullscreen mode with the escape key.



    - Supported image formats are now "only" JPEG, PNG, TIFF, GIF and BMP.

    There were problems with other files being reported as image files though

    they were not.



    - Some minor fixes.



Comix 0.7



    - Added a new "bookmark" feature.



    - Now reads any image format supported by gtk.gdk.Pixbuf (that

    means most formats).



    - Fixed a bug with capital letters not working as hotkeys.



    - Some minor fixes.



Comix 0.6



    - Added a new option to hide the scrollbars even when not in fit to

    screen mode.



    - Pressing space now scrolls the page to show the next part of it, if

    pressed at the bottom of the page it flips to the next page.



    - Dialogs should now look better and use buttons with stock icons.



    - Scrolling could be a bit faulty due to different dimensions of the

    scrollbars in different themes. That problem is now fixed.



    - `Fit width', `Fit height' and `Fit to screen' commands should now be

    exact.



Comix 0.5.2



    - The makefile in 0.5.1 could in some cases change the permissions

    of the folders Comix were installed in to 0755. To solve this

    vulnerability Comix 0.5.2 uses a python script `install.py' to install

    the program instead.



    Usage of the 0.5.1 makefile is not recommended!



Comix 0.5.1



    - Fixed a problem with the makefile. Destination directories will now

    be created if they do not already exist.



Comix 0.5



    - Fixed a bug with the background colour option not working.



    - Added a colour picking dialog instead of the old entry box for the

    background colour.



    - Added a new more user-friendly file chooser dialog.



    - Added `Fit width', `Fit height' and `Fit to screen' commands to the

    right-click menu.



    - Added new option to save zooming values to future sessions.



    - The right-click menu and the preferences window now looks better

    and should hopefully be more user friendly.



    - Changed some hotkeys and their effect.



    - PyGTK requirement is now 2.6+.



Comix 0.4



    - Comix now supports image zooming and window scrolling as well

    as the old fit-to-screen-mode.



    - Comix now includes a makefile, a .desktop file and an icon for an

    easy installation and desktop integration.



Comix 0.3



    - New option to save window position and size to future sessions.



    - New option to set a default path to open when selecting a new file

    with the `Open file' command.



    - Comix now supports page scrolling with the mouse wheel.



    - Fixed a bug with trying to view `File info' when viewing the last page

    in double page mode.



    - Fixed a bug with the number of pages always reported as zero in the

    go-to-page-window.



    - Some minor fixes.



Comix 0.2.1



    - Fixed a bug with opening archives with 3+ files with the same name.



Comix 0.2



    - Now uses the shutil module to move and delete files instead

    of calling the `rm' and `mv' programs.



    - Now uses gtk.gdk.pixbuf_get_file_info() to check image file types

    and the `file' program to check filetypes for ZIP/RAR archives.

    Filename extensions should no longer matter for Comix.



    - Now supports tar, tar.gz and tar.bz2 archives.



    - New menu option `File info' brings up a window and displays various

    information about the file being viewed.



    - New option to flip the pages viewed in double page mode.



    - New option to reverse the reading order (start with the last page).



    - New option to set the saturation of the images displayed.



    - Some minor fixes.



    - New dependencies are `file' and `tar' (should be installed on most

    systems as default).



