Linwood Merry Christmas with Butterfly 2.2.3
Linwood Butterfly
🎨 Powerful, minimalistic, cross-platform, opensource note-taking app
Merry Christmas! 🎄
Today I have the stable release of Butterfly 2.2.3 for you, the biggest bug fix release so far.
Highlights:
- 🎨 More interface customization
- 💾 Save button indicator for autosave
- 🖊️ Laser tool improvements
- 📝 Template dialog improvements
- 🎨 Color wheel
- 🖼️ Render resolution
These are only the higlights, please check the changes inside the nightlies for more details:
There is one open discussion about the web version of the app, feel free to take part in the discussion: #767.
Additionally there is a new discussion about a new file format to support git: #770.
More interface customization
You can now toggle the color toolbar to hide it if you don’t need it. This can be useful if you want to have more space for your drawing or if you have a small screen.
Additionally the options panel can now be placed on the bottom or the top of the screen regardless how big the screen is.
Save button indicator for autosave
There is a new setting for autosave that allows you to show a save button when autosave is active. This can be useful if you want to save manually or if you want to see the status of the autosave.
Laser tool improvements
The laser tool now has a separate duration for the laser visibility and the hide laser strokes. Additionally there is now a new animation to remove the laser strokes called path.
Template dialog improvements
Handling with templates is now much easier. You can now override tools more easily, found the details of a template faster and duplicate templates to create new ones.
Color wheel
The color picker now has a color wheel to select colors more easily. You can now select the color by clicking in the wheel and adjust the brightness in the slider below.
Additionally the slider thumb are now colored in red, green and blue to preview the selected value.
Render resolution
To improve scrolling and moving on the canvas, there is now a setting render resolution. By the default it renders 1.5x times the size of the viewport but you can put it on performance to have the previous behavior and render only the size of the viewport. There is also the option best to render double the size. Feel free to give feedback to this new feature.
Notes
Thank you for all your support and feedback. I wish you a Merry Christmas! This will be the last butterfly release this year. The next release will be in January 2025. We reached 1100 stars on GitHub, 4000 commits and released 2.0.1, 2.0.2, 2.0.3, 2.1.0, 2.1.1, 2.2.0, 2.2.1, 2.2.2 and 2.2.3 this year 🎉
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