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Tweaks to NEWS file.

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Robby Workman
2009-04-28 10:51:16 -05:00
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MAIN CHANGES:
- New and improved tray icon and gui images. (Thanks to Martin Sagastume).
- Re-organized network list in the GUI to be easier to navigate.
- Added new experimental ioctl backend, which is more CPU friendly than the previous one.
- Added a curses client (Thanks to Andrew Psaltis).
- Added a right-click connection menu to the tray icon.
- Add options to specify a dns domain and search domain for static networks.
- Re-worked Preferences menu to be more in line with GNOME standards.
- Support for global scripts.
- Make it possible to have optional entries in encryption templates.
Wicd 1.6.x Branch
Major Changes:
- Improved tray icon and gui images (thanks to Martin Sagastume)
- Reorganized network list in the gui for easier navigation
- New experimental ioctl backend, which is more cpu-friendly than the
previous one
- Added a curses client (thanks to Andrew Psaltis)
- Added a right-click connection menu to the tray icon
- Added options to specify a dns domain and search domain for static networks
- Reworked the Preferences menu to be more in line with GNOME standards
- Added support for global scripts
- Made it possible to have optional entries in encryption templates
Minor Changes and Other Enchancements:
- Better autoconnection behavior
- Tray/GUI will survive the daemon being killed
- Reasons for connection failures will now bubble back to the GUI
- Add/Remove wired profile system is now more user-friendly
- Support for using resolvconf instead of directly editing /etc/resolv.conf
- Wicd won't blindly kill dhcp clients / wpa_supplicant any more
- Added an option to automatically switch from a wireless network to a wired
one as soon as a cable is plugged in
- Moved scanning to its own thread, which makes GUI and daemon more responsive
during scans
- Made it possible to specify macros in script entries
- The gui will now display the encryption entry dialog if you attempt to
connect to an encrypted network without entering a password
- Static gateway entry is now optional
- Passwords with leading or trailing whitespace are now stored properly
- Many init/config script, man page, and setup.py fixes/updates, including
better autodetection of file placement with regard to sleep hooks and
kde autostart files (thanks to Robby Workman)
SMALL CHANGES:
- Better autoconnection behavior.
- Tray/GUI will survive the daemon going down.
- Reasons for connection failures will now bubble back to the GUI.
- Add/Remove wired profile system is now more user-friendly.
- Support for using resolvconf instead of directly editing /etc/resolv.conf.
- Wicd won't blindly kill dhcp clients / wpa_supplicant anymore.
- Added an option to automatically switch from a wireless network to a wired one as soon as a cable is plugged in.
- Move scanning to its own thread, which makes GUI and daemon more responsive during scans.
- Make it possible to specify macros in script entries.
- GUI will now display the encryption entry dialog if you attempt to connect to an encrypted network without entering a password.
- Static gateway entry is now optional.
- Passwords with leading or trailing whitespace are now stored properly.
- Many init/config script, man page, and setup.py fixes/updates (Thanks to Robby Workman).