0.2.0 (Improvements to the TUI, a few fixes and more)

0.2.0 - 2024-06-25

Highlights

• Revamped the TUI footer.

  From to (with non-navigation actions clickable).

• Implemented thumbnail generation and caching (with deduplication) for the TUI image grid.

• The max pixels setting is now opt-in i.e. by default, all images are now rendered regardless of resolution.

Fixed

• tui: Crash on image grid view (c64f195).
• cli,tui: Sorting of top-level (command line) entries (9ea0572).
• Deadlock upon interruption of the main process when multiprocessing is enabled (b90ceef).

Added

• tui: Thumbnail generation (with deduplication) and caching for the image grid (#13, #16).
  • config: thumbnail, thumbnail cache and thumbnail size config options.
  • args: --thumbnail/--no-thumbnail command-line option.
• tui: Force Render action to the menu context (#13).
• tui: Mouse scroll event handling for the image list (menu) (2354639).
• tui: Left mouse click handling for non-navigation actions (in the footer) (#19).
• tui,config: show footer config option to control the TUI footer visibility (#19).
• completions package installation extra, to install argcomplete for shell completions (1890ab8).

Changed

• config,tui: Revamped the max pixels setting (#13).
  • It is now opt-in i.e by default, all images are now rendered regardless of resolution.
  • config: Changed the default value of the max pixels config option to 0 (disabled).
  • tui: It no longer applies in the full-grid-image context.
  • tui: In the image-grid context, images with more pixels than max pixels (if non-zero) are now distinguished by a yellow title and border.
• tui: Improved grid image rendering performance (#13, #16).
• tui: Improved image grid cell size adjustment (#15).
• Exit properly and faster upon interruption (b90ceef).
• tui: Redesigned the footer, action bar and actions (#19).
• tui: Changed the default symbol for esc key from ⎋ (U+238B) to ESC (21b16f3).
• args: Disallowed abbreviation of CLI long options (95e77a3).
• Made the argcomplete dependency optional (1890ab8).
• logging: Process name is now excluded from log records when multiprocessing is disabled (b2ccfa7).

Removed

• args: --max-pixels-cli command-line option (#13).

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Big thanks to @qrockz and @DreamMaoMao for their reports, suggestions and feedback.