Beta Testers for Sigil-2.3.0 Needed

[KevinH]

Hi All,

For our next release of Sigil we have made some major changes to the codebase so we are looking for Beta testers to heavily test things to make sure all works as expected:

These changes include:

1. Move to Qt 6.7.2

2. Move to Python 3.11.9

3. Wholesale changes to Sigil source code to drop support for older Qt5

4. Reverted a large number of late changes that impacted all buttons and checkBoxes that made users require more clicks to get work done. This should bring us back towards Sigil 2.1.0 in that regard but hopefully not hurt tab to focus keyboard users.

5. All bug fixes we have accumulated since the 2.2.1 release

6. Redesigned changes to use Unicode NFC normalization form so that all epubs built with Sigil can be searched equally well in all languages and all good e-readers as well as with Sigil itself. This is to address concerns of many epub developers who make heavy use of accented languages and those that work with RTL languages like Arabic and Hebrew.

Both DiapDelaer and myself are using these builds on a daily basis and all appears to work for us just fine but because people have different work patterns getting feedback from a larger group of testers is important.

So I have posted CI builds (Beta) for Sigil 2.3.0 in my personal repo on github here:

https://github.com/kevinhendricks/Bu...nMac/releases/

The 3 files available are:

Sigil.app-230Beta-Mac-x86_64.tar.xz
Sigil.app-230Beta-Mac-arm64.tar.xz

and for Windows:

Sigil-installer-2.30Beta-Windows.zip

Note: Windows users will need to unzip the download to get to the normal setup installer.

So please if you have any free time and interest in helping Sigil, please grab and use any of these Beta versions and report back any results, good or bad with your normal epub workflows in this thread, so we can track issues down and get them fixed.

Thank you!

Your Sigil Developer Team

[BetterRed]

Windows 10 keyboard centric user

No immediately obvious differences, for me everything looks and works the same. The only vague expectation I had from recent issues raised here was that the first item in list boxes would be selected when tools such as the ToC Editor and Spell checker were first used.

So this rather than this

Doesn't bother me that its not selected, tap space 'fixes' it.

BR

[KevinH]

The EditToC dialog was what the bug report was about. The list box itself now has focus but nothing is selected. This makes sense as technically this list could be empty. Using the down arrow to actually select a line works in my testing. No tab was needed to shift focus anyplace. I assume your space just selects the first line like a down arrow would.
Since when editing a ToC there is no rule you must start at the top. Giving the List widget focus is the right thing to do here.

I did not see a report about SpellCheck but I will look into that. Thanks.

Update: Checked out the code for Spellcheck and there are no changes there from earlier Sigil 2.1.0, so click or tab to focus on what you want will still be required.

[BetterRed]

The same "nothing selected" behaviour I saw in the Spellchecker, is in the ToC Editor and the Metadata Editor - as can been seen below:

This rather than

This rather than

That suggests to me that it is a behaviour inherited by those dialogues from underlying object classes - presumably from the Qt library.

In the ToC Editor, if I don't hit space to select the "Title" line entry then… when I tab to the Down arrow button and hit space the "Title" line entry doesn't move down… because nothing is selected.

Added: Given that's how it's always been I DO NOT regard this as a bug.

Other dialogues containing lists are the same… e.g Reports, Keyboard shortcuts.

I suspect I misread the discussion about the ToC Editor buttons.

BR