Omea Pro/Omea Reader 2.3 Changelog (cumulative)

News

• Sorting by the last article in the News thread (build 1106)
  In order to use this feature you need to "refresh" the list of available columns for a view or a newsgroup/folder by choosing "Configure Columns" in the context menu for a list header. The column for sorting is "Thread Update"
• Possibility to ignore thread (aka "Stop Updating the Thread" with simultaneous marking it as read).
• Newsgroups which have new unread articles in the watched threads are highlighted with the '!' sign in the "Newsgroups" pane.

RSS

• Property checkbox for a feed: "Download enclosures automatically" - you do not need to construct rules anymore (1106)
• Ability to assign categories to a feed - these categories will be automatically assigned to every feed post.
• Ability to add an annotation for a feed in the Properties dialog.
• Automatic backup for RSS subscription list.

Contacts

• Contact information view contains a collapseable section with latest correspondence links.
• Contact edit dialog is now split into three parts each of which contains a semantically structured set of fields to be entered (TODO: redesign telephone and email address blocks).
• Block for editing person's full name is redesigned - now just a plain string is entered, and it is parsed into first, middle and last name automatically (though they can be manully reedited if necessary).
• Contact can be associated with an Avatar picture. User can even submit a large picture which will be transformed into the smaller standard-sized thumbnail. Avatar is shown in the Links Pane when the correspondence from that contact is displayed.

Minor UI issues

• Toolbar buttons: Up/Down in the list (useful for Tablet PC owners) (1106)
• Toolbar button: Assign Category (1106)
• Unified place for entering search queries, press Ctrl-E for switching between search sources! (1106)
• More usable "Assign Category" dialog: when navigating to the category by typing its prefix, now this snall search window is hidden whenever the category is selected, thus making it easier to select several categories.
• Option for short resource Date/Time format - only Date is shown.
• Modified splash screen - show plugin errors when they are registered and started up.
• "Assign Category" dialog has now new button and list - "Check as previous". This couple lets user to check the listed set of categories. This proved to be extremely handy while categorizing a large set of resources with the repeating set of categories. Please note however that UI is not polished and we ready for suggestions.
• Autocomplete for Search combobox
• Omea does not ask user for database and log files paths on startup since this information is useless for 99% of users. Others have a possibility to explicitely change datapath in the options dialog (as before).
• Switch to .Net 2.0-styled menus (with icons on the left strip).

Rules and Views

• Rule and View which caused errors during their execution are shown greyed in the Rules Manager and Views Manager dialogs.
• Every resource now remembers when it was deleted (non-destroying deletion). New condition now alows to construct vews using deletion timestamp.

Performance

• Optimization of Contact-Correspondence links (build 1106)
• Complete rewriting of text-index rules activation over new files.

API

• API for adding so called "Search Providers". They have unified UI for:
  • Visualizing themselves in the standard Search combobox - by name in the context menu, by icon in the menu and combobox;
  • Getting the query string;
  • Vizualize the results of the provider's action.
    Standard Ctrl-E shortcut enumerates standard and custom providers.

Other Fixed Bugs

• Critical: some resources were missed in the Text Index. It is recommended to rebuild the index completely (build 1106)
• Proper visualization of Excel and Word file previews (build 1106)
• Fixed "error when parsing Cookies header" bug when subscribing to some feeds.
• Removed duplicated indexing of email's text.