Joaquim Rocha
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SeriesFinale v0.6 AKA “Xmas Comes Earlier” edition

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    Joaquim Rocha
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It’s been a while since last SeriesFinale’s version and I have been a bit busy meanwhile but still got time, together with Juan, to pull up some nice new features. In the end, we had so many changes and the app felt so smooth that we nicknamed it “Xmas Comes Earlier”!

So what can you find in this new version?

  • The covers are now downloaded in the background which allows users to keep using the application and improves idle times when adding/updating shows.
  • No more database deletions. Many people complained that sometimes it would suddenly delete all the database. We have now introduced a few verifications that make it harder for the database to be deleted unless you do it yourself.
  • The format of the JSON of the database and the way the serialization is done is now faster which allows faster load and save times.
  • The impossibility to delete shows is also fixed.
  • No more problems with characters like & on the episodes and shows’ names.
  • Already added shows are now marked with color when searching for shows.
  • The highlight of episodes is now fixed, when marking them.
  • A new logo that works in a black background has been added.
  • Images are now downloaded to temporary files which allows a safer assignment to the shows/seasons.
  • The images are now deleted if it’s not being used anymore (when shows are deleted), and are not downloaded more than once (when a show is added twice).
  • The removal of the application now deletes the images folder.
  • AUTHORS, README and THANKS files were added to the package.
  • Translations were updated.
  • The search dialog now allows you to search shows in a chosen language.
  • The About dialog was added. Here are a few screenshots:
[Shows when no cover has been added][1]
Shows when no cover has been added
[Temporary image when downloading cover][2]
Temporary image when downloading cover
[Search dialog with Language choices][3]
Search dialog with Language choices
[About dialog][4]
About dialog

Two other things that are new are the creation of two mailing lists for SeriesFinale: seriesfinale-general for general discussion, help and feature requests seriesfinale-development for discussions related to features development and bug tracking

You should be able to upgrade SeriesFinale from the extras-devel repository. I’ll promote it extras later.

Enjoy!

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