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• 2007-05-12:
  Version 0.7.2 of bbbm released:
  • Improved layout of the options dialog a bit
  • Useless menu items are now disabled, such as closing when no file is opened or sorting when there are no images. Creating empty lists, menus or collections is still allowed though
  
  
• 2007-03-05:
  Version 0.7.1 of bbbm released:
  • Increased the default number of extra commands from 5 to 10. A scroll pane makes sure the layout is kept intact, no matter the number of commands
  • Added "Add Image List..." to Edit menu, which adds all supported images in a text file. This file should have one image file per line
  • Improved command handling. Each %1 inside the command will be replaced by the image filename. If there is no %1, the image filename will be appended to the command as before
  
  
• 2007-03-04:
  Version 0.7 of bbbm released:
  • Added multiple commands that can be executed for an image
  
  
• 2005-03-23:
  Version 0.6.2 of bbbm released:
  • Fixed a bug that caused the Set and View options to be messed up when they were modified (with thanks to Kevin Tomasek)
  
  
• 2004-07-03:
  Version 0.6.1 of bbbm released:
  • Fixed a bug that caused bbbm to crash when trying to open or add an unreadable collection
  
  
• 2004-06-29:
  Version 0.6 of bbbm released:
  • Changed creation of images; instead of using external ImageMagick command, gdk-pixbuf is used
  
  
• 2004-06-24:
  Version 0.5 of bbbm released:
  • Rewrote great parts for greater readability
  • Thumbnail size format is checked when reading the config file
  • Added limits to the thumbnail size (screen size)
  • Thumbnail size is split in width and height entries in the Options dialog
  • Slightly changed some menu item labels
  • Set filename status of unnamed collections to "Untitled"
  • Added boolean options "Include filename as label" (filename_label) and "Include filename as title" (filename_title), which set the menu label / title of created Blackbox menus to the basename of the currently opened collection.
    The configuration file is updated automatically for these options
  
  
• 2004-06-22:
  Version 0.4.2 of bbbm released:
  • Added support for long filenames in the created Blackbox menu (i.e. with spaces and characters \, (, ), { and })
  
  
• 2004-06-21:
  Version 0.4.1 of bbbm released:
  • Zombie child processes are cleaned up now
  • Added modified status (indicated by an asterisk behind the filename)
  • Added confirmation when closing a modified collection
  
  
• 2004-06-03:
  Version 0.4 of bbbm released:
  • Fixed a bug in the Makefile that did not remove /usr/local/bin/bbbm, but tried to remove /usr/local/bbbm instead
  • Fixed a bug that (might) let the program crash if executing the set or view command would produce an error; the error is now printed to stderr
  • Using absolute, normalized paths now (i.e. no more /../ or /./)
  • Added "Sort On Filename" and "Sort On Description" to Edit menu. Sorting is done lexicographically
  
  
• 2004-05-31:
  Version 0.3.1 of bbbm released:
  • Improved file manager behaviour; makes it easier to jump to directories just by typing the name (with thanks to Jari Aalto)
  
  
• 2004-05-30:
  Version 0.3 of bbbm released:
  • Complete rewrite in C (which should make bbbm1 redundant)
  • No longer center bbbm by default, but let the window manager decide
  • Fixed a bug that changed the current filename if a collection was added
  • When changing the thumb size, the current thumbs are finally resized
  • Introduced less strict config file parsing; whitespace is no longer an issue
  • Added "Add Directory..." to Edit menu, which adds all supported images in the selected directory
  • Added "Move Back..." and "Move Forward..." to image popup menu
  • "Insert..." can now insert multiple images
  • Added support for commands with spaces in them
  • Added an overwrite check when writing to a file
  • No longer exits a file chooser when nothing is done; the only way to close it now is either pressing Cancel, or successfully select a file / directory
  • Extended the statusbar to show the filename of the currently opened collection as well
  • Changed accelerator for "Add Collection" to CTRL+C
  Because bbbm is now written in C and can also run without problems on older machines (successfully tested with RedHat 7.3),
  bbbm1 is discontinued as of now.
  
  
• 2004-03-31:
  Version 0.2 of both bbbm and bbbm1 released:
  • Fixed a bug in the configuration file reading
  • Introduced more error checking; no checking on file permissions though
  • Set scrollbar policy to automatic
  • Added inserting functionality
  • Changed accelerator for Close to CTRL+X
  
  
• 2004-03-27:
  First release of bbbm, bbbm1 and the website