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0.2.5.6rc1
==========
- It is now possible to assign a keyboard shortcut to open the preferred
  application dialog for people that disable the menu bar.
- Terminal now allows you to choose different colors for the cursor and the
  text selection color.
- A new command line option --hold was added, which prevents Terminal from
  closing tabs when the child command exits.
- The MiscCycleTabs option is now enabled by default.
- A new hidden option MiscInheritGeometry was added, which controls whether
  new windows will inherit the geometry of the parent window.
- A new hidden option MiscAlwaysShowTabs was added, which controls whether the
  tabs should always be shown no matter how many tabs are present in a window.
- A new hidden option MiscTabPosition was added, which specifies the position
  where the tabs should be placed.
- Parse file:-URIs dropped to a Terminal window properly and format them so
  they can be used in shell commands directly (Bug #2076).
- Use the thumbnail preview support for the background image selection that
  was added with exo 0.3.1.10rc1 (Bug #2069).
- Add '~' to the default word chars.
- The dependency on libxfcegui4 is gone. The required Gtk+ version was bumped
  to 2.6.0.
- The user manual is now available in English and Japanese.
- Updated translations: Jaime Buffery (es), Jari Rahkonen (fi), Daichi
  Kawahata (ja), Hydonsingore Sie (zh_TW)
- New translations: Pau Rullan Ferragut (ca), Michal Várady (cs), Stavros
  Giannouris (el), Piarres Beobide Egaña (eu), Antono Vasiljev (eo), Leandro
  Regueiro (gl), Szervác Attila (hu), Vittorio Palmisano (it), Kibum Han (ko),
  Mantas Zapolskas (lt), Szymon Kałasz (pl), Adriano Winter Bess and Joao
  Pedrosa (pt_BR), Andrey Fedoseev and Anthony Ivanoff (ru), Roman Moravcik
  (sk), Jens Hagerman (sv), Maxim V. Dziumanenko (uk), Phan Vĩnh Thịnh (vi)


0.2.4
=====
- You can now open hyperlinks (and email addresses) from within Terminal by
  either middle-clicking the hyperlink or choosing the appropriate item from
  the right-click menu. This feature is optional and can be disabled.
- When terminal background was set to "background image" and the user opened
  a new terminal tab, the background image was not always set properly. This
  is fixed now.
- A new hidden option "MiscCycleTabs" was added to allow users to circulate
  through terminal tabs, similar to what Mozilla Firefox does by default.
- Another new hidden option "MiscTabCloseButtons" was added to allow users to
  disable the close buttons in the terminal tab headers.
- The keyboard shortcuts to go to a specific terminal tab now work properly
  even if the main menu bar is hidden.
- Added the possibility to let Vte auto-detect the backspace and delete bindings
  for the terminal.
- Changed default paste shortcut to Shift+Ctrl+V.
- The configuration file is watched for changes now and will be reread
  automatically. You no longer need to restart Terminal if you manually edited
  the terminalrc file.
- Terminal now supports D-BUS 0.23 (and earlier) and D-BUS 0.31 (and later),
  while the dependency on D-BUS is optional.
- The output of "Terminal --help" now properly shows the translation (if any)
  instead of the english text.
- Various usability improvements.
- Updated translations: os-cillation (de), Stephane Roy (fr), Jasper Huijsmans
  (nl).
- New translations: Jari Rahkonen (fi), Yuval Tanny (he), Daichi Kawahata (ja),
  Anthony Ivanoff (ru), Army Gu (zh_CN)
- The documentation has been updated.


0.2.2
=====
- A command line option --fullscreen was added to put a new window into
  fullscreen mode automatically.
- Users can open only one preferences dialog per terminal window now.
- The shortcut for the commandline option --title is now -T, because that
  seems to be common among terminal emulators. -t is still supported for
  compatbility with gnome-terminal, but may be removed in the future.
- Remote displays are supported properly now. But multi-screen mode will only
  work with solid background until the Vte guys fix the multi-screen issue
  (see http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=160782).
- Modifiers like <Mod2> or <Lock> are now stripped off when using the
  shortcut editor, since it turned out that they don't work properly with
  some X setups.
- Pressing Shift<F10> also pops up the right-click menu now.
- Fixed a bug where the size was not always properly set when opening a
  new terminal tab.
- A new toplevel menu "Go" was added, which includes "Prev Tab", "Next Tab"
  and a list of currently active tabs. People who use a customized Terminal.ui
  will need to sync their copy with the default Terminal.ui file in order
  to see this change.
- New shortcuts have been added to allow fast switching to the first 9
  terminal tabs; the shortcuts default to Alt+#.
- The terminal tab close button is now properly rendered with Gtk+ themes
  that are based on the "pixmap" engine.
- The "Use colors from system theme" option was removed, as it was mostly
  unusued and its really not a required option after all (I don't know any
  Gtk+ theme that specifies colors for VteTerminal anyways).
- You can now scroll up/down by one line using Shift+Up and Shift+Down, in
  the same manner as in aterm.
- A new option "Allow bold text" was added, to control whether or not
  Terminal will attempt to draw bold text by repainting text with a
  different offset.
- Added the possibility to detach tabs from a given Terminal window and
  reopen that tab in a new window. This functionality is available from
  a right-click menu that was added to the tab title widgets.
- The about dialog now uses the Terminal application icon instead of the
  terminal-general stock icon.
- The terminal service now checks the user id of callers and if the
  user ids doesn't match the caller will automatically run in its
  own Terminal instance. This allows users to run Terminal with different
  users without having to supply the --disable-server option, e.g. running
  "sudo Terminal" (please note that this is not recommended!).
- Several other bugs and glitches have been fixed.
- New translations: Dwayne Bailey (en_GB), Hydonsingore Sie (zh_TW),
  Jaime Buffery (es)
- Updated translations: os-cillation (de), Jasper Huijsmans (nl_NL)
- The documentation has been updated.


0.2.0
=====
- The user interface was reworked to comply with the GNOME Human Interface
  Guidelines (HIG).
- Terminal can now use the foreground and background color from the selected
  Gtk+ theme.
- Toolbars can now be edited by right-clicking the appriorate toolbar.
- The preferences dialog and the title dialog are now accessible.
- Avoid flickering when opening a new terminal.
- The terminal background is now set up before the terminal is mapped on
  screen.
- Menu access keys can now be disabled, which allows passing key combinations
  such as Alt+f to the application running inside the terminal.
- Font-antialiasing can now be turned off for the terminal font rendering,
  which impressively speeds up Terminal performance and reduces system
  load on slow systems.
- Optional support for startup notification was added.
- A bunch of new command line options were added, which allow the user
  to control every aspect of a terminal window from the command line and
  its also possible to open multiple windows and multiple tabs from the
  command line.
- The terminal title can now be changed by double-clicking the terminal
  tab header.
- Multi-screen and multi-display configurations are now properly supported
  by Terminal.
- A bug in the backspace binding preference was fixed, which caused Terminal
  to use Control+H if the user configured ASCII DEL and vice versa.
- Support for session management was added (using X11R5 WM_SAVE_YOURSELF).
- Added a confirmation dialog, that pops up when a window with more than
  one tab is about to be closed. The confirmation can be disabled from
  the dialog.
- Icons are now built into the Terminal binary to avoid the 100-500ms
  increase in startup time when using the icon lookup functions in
  libxfcegui4.
- If an application running inside the terminal supports using the
  mouse (like mc for example), Terminal automatically disables the
  right-click menu and forwards all button clicks to the application
  instead. Hold down shift while pressing the right mouse button to
  get a right-click menu in this situation.
- Several bugfixes and improvements have been integrated into Terminal
  (in order to reduce code-size and startup time).
- The D-BUS interface was changed to include a version number and to
  pass the argument vector instead of the parsed options to the
  Terminal service.
- The online documentation and the manual page have been updated.


0.1.10
======
- The configure option --enable-final is now on by default for plattforms
  that support it.
- A bunch of new icons was imported.
- Terminal now includes an editable toolbar, which is disabled by default.
- The background image can now be displayed in different styles (Tiled,
  Scaled, Stretched and Centered). In addition the background image chooser
  dialog now features a preview widget and an `Image files' filter.
- Various resize-related bugs have been addressed and fixed.
- Terminal now defaults to current working directory if no --working-directory
  command line switch was specified.
- The documentation was updated and a manual page for Terminal was added.


0.1.9
=====
- The configure option --enable-final now enables linker optimizations for
  plattforms that support it (recent GNU binutils required).
- The UI description is now installed as a separate file, to allow users to
  customize their menus rudimentarily.
- The documentation was updated.


0.1.8
=====
- Background darkness setting is now restored correctly.
- Open Terminal now always openes a new Terminal window instead of
  randomly opening a new tab
- French and Dutch translations are included now, thanks to Jasper
  Huijsmans <jasper@xfce.org> for reviewing and fixing the dutch
  translation.
- A FAQ section was added to the documentation.


0.1.7
=====
- New icons for the preferences dialog by Francois Le 
  Clainche <fleclainche@wanadoo.fr>, available as PNG and
  scalable images.
- Online documentation updated. All of Terminal is now documented.
- The user can now specify the setting of the $TERM environment
  variable on new terminals.
- The color palette used by the terminal applications is configurable
  now. It defaults to the Linux console color palette.
- The configured background is also used for tinting the terminal background
  in image and transparent mode.


0.1.6
=====
- Fixed a bug that made mc appear in black and white only.
- Added documentation for Terminal, available through the menu Help->Contents
  and available online at http://www.os-cillation.de/documentation/terminal/
- The compact mode functionality was split up into 2 options, its now possible
  to toggle the visibility of the menubar and the window decorations inde-
  pendently.
- New icons for Open Terminal and Open Tab, designed by Francois Le
  Clainche <fleclainche@wanadoo.fr>.
- Custom command functionality was removed from Terminal, because it is
  rather useless, now that Terminal offers -x/--execute command line
  options.
- The output of Terminal --help was improved to list all options with
  descriptions of their functionality.
- The Preferences dialog was changed to use GtkFrame instead of XfceFramebox
  to get a smoother look.
- Translations now work the way they are expect to work. For now, only
  german translations are available.


0.1.5
=====
- A keyboard shortcut editor was added.
- The tab close icon size was decreased.
- Geometry handling was improved.
- .desktop and .spec files have been added.