Name: Comic Sticks
Author: Ryan Koesters

Comic Sticks brings xkcd comics to your desktop with quick comic searching, offline browsing, and intuitive keyboard shortcuts.Features:<ul><li>Search for comics</li><li>Keep track of comics with bookmarks</li><li>Cache comics for later offline viewing</li><li>Dark mode for late night reading</li><li>View comic metadata</li><li>Quickly access comic explainations via the explain xkcd wiki</li></ul>

Comic Sticks

Add the cache management window, allowing you to download all comic images in preparation for being offline.Add or remove bookmarks with one button click.Keyboard shortcut changes:<ul><li>New: Add or remove a bookmark with ctrl+d</li><li>New: Show bookmarks list with ctrl+alt+d</li><li>Changed: toggle the light/dark theme with ctrl+t</li></ul>

Minor improvements:<ul><li>Overhaul search and bookmark menus to improve performance with large lists</li><li>Improve comic search by including results that are at most one edit distance away from the search query</li><li>Add shortcuts window and about window to desktop entry</li></ul>

Add a couple new keyboard shortcuts and add some common aliases for existing keyboard shortcuts. Open the shortcuts window with ctrl+? to check out what's new!Other improvements:<ul><li>Fix crash when closing window in desktop environments that show an app menu (but for real this time)</li><li>Add support for launching as a D-Bus service in desktop environments that prefer that method of launching applications</li></ul>

Minor improvements:<ul><li>Fix crash when closing window in desktop environments that show an app menu</li><li>Fix dark mode signal loop caused by bug in dark mode switch</li><li>Fix window menu resizing after zooming</li><li>Use linked button style for zoom buttons on elementary OS to match all other platforms</li></ul>

Minor improvements:<ul><li>Fix keyboard navigation for dark mode switch</li><li>Fix dark mode switch animation when clicking label</li><li>Fix dark mode when using some themes that do not support gtk-application-prefer-dark-theme</li></ul>

Minor improvements:<ul><li>The dark mode toggle in the window menu is now a switch</li><li>Fix inversion of gifs with transparency in dark mode</li><li>Fix capitalization of "xkcd" in window and app menus</li><li>Add Turkish translation (thanks to libreajans)</li><li>Update Dutch translation (thanks to Vistaus)</li></ul>

The zoom update!<ul><li>Zoom in and out to get a better look at comics</li><li>Minor improvements to appearance of search, bookmark, and window menus</li><li>Update dependencies</li></ul>

Minor fixes:<ul><li>Fixes and tweaks to app UI text and translations</li><li>Update dependencies</li></ul>

Minor fixes:<ul><li>Improve caching behavior of "Newest Comic" button</li><li>Fix a crash when closing the comic window while the properties dialog is not open</li><li>Update dependencies</li></ul>

Minor fixes:<ul><li>Fix a localization bug</li></ul>

The context menu update!<ul><li>Add a context menu when right-clicking on a comic</li><li>Tweak spacing of navigation buttons on elementary OS</li><li>Fix "Show Properties" keyboard shortcut hint in window menu</li><li>Bump versions of dependencies</li></ul>

Minor fixes:<ul><li>Improve appearance of window menu, including shortcut hints where applicable</li><li>Tweak appearance of navigation buttons on elementary OS</li></ul>

Minor fixes:<ul><li>Minor performance improvements</li></ul>

Minor fixes:<ul><li>Improve UI contrast in dark mode by always using symbolic icons while in dark mode</li><li>Improve comic metadata cache usage, decreasing app's internet usage</li></ul>

Improve dark mode on elementary OS by making the title bar dark instead of pastel blue.

Major fixes:<ul><li>Move the random comic button to sit between the other navigation buttons</li><li>Signicantly reduce app start up time when not connected to the internet</li><li>Improve usage of cached data</li><li>Add warning log message if there are app files that may have been misplaced due to a bug in version 1.3.2</li></ul>

Minor fixes:<ul><li>Add Portuguese translations (Thanks to rottenpants466)</li><li>Fix bug where app would dump app files in the root of the config and cache directories. The app will now put those files in an app-specific subdirectory</li><li>Bump dependency versions</li><li>Fix race condition in search results from 1.3.3</li></ul>

Minor fixes:<ul><li>Add Italian translations (Thanks to albanobattistella)</li><li>Minor performance improvement to bookmarks menu</li><li>Fix a bug (race condition)</li></ul>

Minor fixes:<ul><li>Add loading icon while fetching comic</li><li>Add Dutch translations (Thanks to Vistaus)</li></ul>

The bookmarks update!<ul><li>Add bookmarks for keeping track of comics</li><li>Update search menu to not waste space</li></ul>

The localization update!<ul><li>Add support for translations (user interface only, comics will remain in their original language)</li><li>Add French translations (Thanks to NathanBnm)</li></ul>

Fix for changes to xkcd API encoding.

Fix restoring of window state when maximized.

Minor fixes:<ul><li>Add keyboard shortcut for dark mode</li><li>Fix saving of properties window state</li></ul>

The dark mode update!<ul><li>Add dark mode that inverts the comic image to improve readability in the dark</li><li>Add buttons to titlebar for jumping to the first comic and the newest comic</li><li>Fix issue with encoding of comic metadata (fixes display of special characters and emojis)</li><li>Fix memory leak when closing additional comic windows</li></ul>

Update app metadata to pass appstream-util validate-relax.

Revert fuzzy searching due to regressions.

Minor fixes:<ul><li>Use fuzzy searching</li><li>Only show alt text when hovering directly over the comic image</li></ul>

First stable release!<ul><li>Improve startup time</li><li>Add keyboard shortcuts for faster navigation</li></ul>

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Comic Sticks

Read xkcd: a webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language

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