From 9ed28df09c019bcf130e575738d1feb8a3f7df3d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Albert S Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2022 17:58:48 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] README.me: Minor changes --- CHANGELOG.md | 14 ++++++++++++++ README.md | 11 ++++++----- 2 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md index d1749bc..ed9069a 100644 --- a/CHANGELOG.md +++ b/CHANGELOG.md @@ -1,5 +1,19 @@ # looqs: Release notes +## 2022-06-29 - v0.4 +This release makes several minor improvements and begins prebuilt binaries of looqs that (should) run +on any recent Linux distribution. + + - General: Begin new, experimental distro-agnostic tarball containing prebuilt binaries and libs. See the README for more information. + - GUI: In the "Previews" tab, allow filtering by file, to only show previews for a specific file. + - GUI: Add "Show previews" context menu option to files in result (if available) + - General: Fix build with libquazip 1.X + - General: Properly report access errors as a failure during indexing + - GUI: Add button to export a list of all paths that failed + - General: Improve dir scan threading + - CLI: Improve helptext + - General: Add voidlinux build instructions + ## 2022-06-14 - v0.3 CHANGES: - GUI: Add settings tab to configure various settings diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 94b1a61..f7a8804 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -57,6 +57,8 @@ Linux (on amd64) is currently the main focus. Currently, I don't plan on support ### Licence GPLv3. +For the dependencies/third-party libraries, see: LICENSE-3RD-PARTY + ### Contributing Please see the [Contribution guidelines](CONTRIBUTING.md) file. @@ -107,16 +109,15 @@ sudo apt-get install looqs ### Prebuilt tarball (distro-agnostic) (EXPERIMENTAL) looqs is also distributed as a tarball containing prebuilt binaries and its library dependencies. The tarball is -built with the Gentoo Hardened toolchain and the Qt version is smaller than what distributions usually +built using the Gentoo Hardened toolchain and the Qt version is smaller than what distributions usually include. It does not include libraries that should mess with fontrendering or the graphics stack. The binaries should run on any recent Linux distribution (requires glibc 2.34 or newer at least) and expects dependencies such as libGL to be provided by your distribution already (should be the case). -It's considered experimental for two reasons. Firstly, looqs has no updater (yet). You will have to manually check for updates. Secondly, I can't guarantee that I'll be quick with updates of the tarball specifically -if the library versions become outdated between looqs updates. +It's considered experimental for two reasons. Firstly, looqs has no updater (yet). You will have to manually check for updates. Secondly, I can't guarantee that I'll be quick with updates of the tarball specifically if the library versions become outdated between looqs updates. You are therefore encouraged to use distro-native packages or to build it yourself if possible. -The prebuilt tarball can be obtained here: https://repo.quitesimple.org/tarball/looqs +The tarball can be obtained here: https://repo.quitesimple.org/tarball/looqs Quick start: @@ -127,7 +128,7 @@ cd looqs-v0.4 ./looqs-gui # or ./looqs for the CLI ``` -An AppImage may accompany the prebuilt tarball in the future. +An AppImage may accompany the tarball in the future. ### Other distros