Pastie 0.6.5 (and beyond)
Yesterday I released pastie 0.6.5. It’s been a long time since I haven’t written about pastie’s development, and this is due to one thing: I’ve been busy. But, I’ve had terrible teeth problems this week, so my normal activities have been put on hold, and I’ve had more time to work on pastie.
What’s new? Well, the main thing is I’ve implemented a selection dialog, for the keyboarders among us. By pressing Control-Shift-C, you can move thorugh the clipboard history and even search in it.
With this, pastie is in the same category of facciocose’s Pasta (from which I took some ideas regarding the window focus) and Anamnesis (http://anamnesis.sourceforge.net/).
The second thing is I’ve redesigned the preferences dialog, so it’s more organized and easier to extend. I’ve also added the ability to change the keyboard shortcuts.
What can you expect soon? The next release will include support for the primary selection. It’s taken me long, but it’s finally working fine. The code is actually in the ‘testing’ branch.
What next? The plan now is to be at some point on par with parcellite in terms of features, so I’ll be thinking about something like parcellite’s actions (I’m thinking of it like filters for the incoming entries). Also, I think some people would like some integration with web services (like glippy, which now support uploading to imgur and pastebin), and I’ll think about that too. That might need a plugin system.
One thing I’d like to do also is, like in Anamnesis, make pastie use a sqlite database. Would that reduce pastie’s memory usage? Maybe. But it would also allow me to have a pretty much unlimited clipboard history. Then, I could decouple the history size and the menu size.
