Makagiga - Official Blog

2011-06-26

Makagiga 4.0 Alpha 6

Makagiga 4.x requires JDK/Java 7.0.

See the previous post for installation instruction and known issues.

Summary of changes for Alpha 3, 4, 5 and 6... :)

Tasks

Full screen Calendar tab (menu -> Tools -> Calendar). It's like Calendar widget only larger:

Improved Task Summary:

Widgets

Show tool bar and "Close/Minimize" buttons on mouse hover
Updated Internet Search widget

Added option to change To-Do widget title:

Misc.:

Improved color pickers
Console: Added "Print Debug Messages" option to suppress "stderr" text and other log messages (see Tool Bar)
Todo List: Press Ctrl+Enter to display date/time dialog window and add a new task
Rounded corners in Category labels
Paint focus border using a nice dashed lines
New cache system for downloads, RSS, and thumbnail previews. (It's faster but still a little bit buggy)
+ Bug fixes and other improvements

New splash screen image and startup progress bar:

2011-06-12

Makagiga 3.8.13 released

This is a boring bugfix release. No new features this time :)

2011-04-18

Makagiga 4.0 progress

Removing dead/unused code
2011/04: Removing @Deprecated/@Obsolete classes and methods (50% complete)
Code refactoring and clean up -> better API (50% complete)
2011/05: Migration to Java 7 and NetBeans IDE 7
Application startup optimizations (50% complete)
New features and improvements, etc.
Public testing (v4.0 Beta 1, Beta 2...)
API stabilization (binary and runtime compatibility)
Bug fixes, regression fixes
2011/07: Plugin updates
No new major features (feature freeze)
2011/08: Final v4.0 release

2011-04-13

Makagiga 4.0 (Codename: Super-Sonnicus Idioticus) Early Alpha 2

This is the second public alpha build. It contains some new features, improvements (and bugs ;).

Testing

Download the portable .zip version
Run ./run-portable.sh or run-portable - this will launch Makagiga in a new profile. You can still use the existing default profile (./run.sh) but it's not recommended yet.
Any existing RSS Archive will be converted to the new optimized/smaller format. The old RSS Archive will be saved in "RSS Archive Backup (for Makagiga 3.x).zip" file, so you can downgrade back to Makagiga 3.x in case something goes wrong.

Known Issues

All plugins designed for Makagiga 3.x are temporarily incompatible
Background color in Notepad and Note widget may be displayed incorrectly

Some new features

Removed main menu -> View -> Tool Bars -> Status Bar option. The status bar is now hidden by default.

Categorized files and tasks in Tags menu:

Improved tabs header UI. Plugin Settings in a tab...

Source Code Changes

Huge API clean up and refactoring - see PORTING.txt if you can't find the old stuff
Removed tons of @Deprecated/unused code