reco

Improvements:

• Reword string in metainfo (thanks to @daPhipz)
• Reword and elaborate on metadata and descriptions (thanks to @roxwize)
• Show tooltip for each row of microphone combobox
• Add notification after saving recording for play and open folder
• Update submodules
• Update translations

Fixes:

• Recording levelbar disappears after some time
• Potential null access
• Timer counts up/down twice as fast when resuming from pause
• Audio stutters after some time

Reco, the app I published to AppCenter for the first time in my life, made its 5th anniversary on December 1, 2023! 🎉
Thank you for all who has contributed to and uses Reco.

Improvements:

• Add ability to choose which device to record from
• Show a graph depending on the volume to indicate recording is in progress (big thanks to @lcallarec for the live-chart library!)
• Support recording over an hour
• System-synced color preference now available on any platforms other than Pantheon
• Flatpak: Update platform version
• Improve debug logs and error messages
• Update translations
• Code refactoring

Fixes:

• Fix Ctrl+Q quits the app without saving
• Prevent user from recording when no microphone is connected

• Show important errors to users
• Update Flatpak runtime version
• Improve app metainfo
• Review label notation
• Improve the way to load custom icons
• Update translations

• Migrate to GTK 4, the latest version of GTK
• Get disk access permission only when the user allowed
• Hide remaining time label when unnecessary
• Fix no style button selected on non-Pantheon desktop environments when first launch
• Update translations

• Update Flatpak runtime version
• Update translations

We now use Hosted Weblate for accepting translations. Thank you for your contribution, all translators!

• Check desktop environment on runtime
• Show nicer message dialogs depending on the running desktpp environment

Translation updates:

• Update French translation (thanks to @NathanBnm)
• Update Portuguese translation (thanks to @hugok79)
• Update Dutch translation (thanks to @Vistaus)
• Add simplified Chinese translation (thanks to @ShuiHuo)

Reco is now available on Flathub too!

Translation updates:

• Update Spanish translation (thanks to @Eldhrimer)
• Update Italian translation (thanks to @albanobattistella)

Let's celebrate the new year with the issue from the ancient fixed! 🎍

• Replace AAC option with ALAC to prevent strange stereo files being generated

Reco, the app I developed for the first time in my life, made its 3rd anniversary on December 1, 2021! 🥳🎉
Thank you for everyone who uses, contributes to, and translate the app. 💕

• Add new style switcher

Translation updates:

• Update Dutch translation (thanks to @Vistaus)
• Update Portuguese translation (thanks to @hugok79)
• Update Italian translation (thanks to @albanobattistella)
• Update Japanese translation

• Use the user cache folder instead of the system temporary folder to save temporary recording files
• Fix wrong OARS data
• Update Italian translation (thanks to @albanobattistella)

• Publish the app to the new AppCenter on elementary OS 6 with the Flatpak manifest
• A completely rewrited and improved method to detect recording sources
• Redesign: Separate Delay and Duration settings from Recording section as Timer section and put it under Recording section
• Make sure to show a dialog for any errors in recording
• Code refactoring

Translation updates:

• Add Brazilian Portuguese translation (thanks to @mathessaricci)
• Update Portuguese translation (thanks to @hugok79)
• Update Spanish translation (thanks to @Eldhrimer)
• Update Japanese translation

• Update Portuguese translation (thanks to @hugok79)
• Update Spanish translation and add Catalan translation (thanks to @fitojb)
• Update Japanese translation

• Update Dutch translation (thanks to @Vistaus)
• Revert another change done in version 2.4.3 that potentially caused an error during the packaging process
• Revive the change that had been reverted in version 2.4.4

• Revert changes done in version 2.4.3 that potentially caused an error during the packaging process

• MainWindow: Readable copy for dialog messages
• MainWindow: Add window title for the new Gala feature that shows windows titles in Multitasking view
• Add Italian translation (thanks to @albanobattistella)
• Add Portuguese translation (thanks to @hugok79)
• Update Japanese translation
• Clean code

• Inhibit sleeping while recording
• Update Japanese translation

• Make sure GSettings key "length" and "delay" take only natural numbers
• Follow API change of Gtk.FileChooser in GTK 4
• Fix temporary recordings are not deleted on error
• Fix some microphones are not recognized (thanks to @peteruithoven)
• Update Dutch translation (thanks to @Vistaus)
• Update Turkish translation (thanks to @safak45x)

• Respect an elementary OS-wide dark preference. This does not work on Hera; it will work on the next version of elementary OS.
• Allow setting per-app dark style preference. This works on Hera too.
• Allow choosing stereo or mono. The app now handles audio channels correctly.
• Update Spanish translation (thanks to @CCaroV)
• Update Japanese translation
• Readable code: cast as an enum instead of a row int
• Explicit gstreamer1.0-libav as a dependency to fix a potential crash when trying to record in AAC

• Add Turkish translation (thanks to @safak45x)
• Add Russian translation (thanks to @usmanovmax)

Congratulations on the release of elementary OS Hera! 🎉
This release celebrates not only it but also Reco: it has been a year since its first version was released! 🎂

• Downgrade Node.js to fix builds on Travis CI (thanks to @meisenzahl)
• Add Polish translation (thanks to @michalzkosmosu)
• Update French translation (thanks to @NathanBnm)
• Update Japanese translation
• Addressed small coding style fixes and removed unnecessary codes (as always)