Detailed list of changes in LottaNZB 0.5

  • Plug-in support! In an effort to keep the default user interface clean and to make it easier for us to add new features to LottaNZB that some of you will hopefully find useful, we added a new tab to the preferences window where you can enable and disable plug-ins. We turned the categorization feature and Newzbin support into plug-ins. It’s now also possible to hide the LottaNZB icon in the notification area.
  • It’s now possible to enqueue NZB files over the network. This means that you can add both normal NZB files and Newzbin IDs to the download queue on another computer.
  • Instant apply preferences: Like many other GNOME application, LottaNZB will make sure that changes in the preferences window take effect instantaneously.
  • You can use the preferences window no matter what usage mode has been selected. This means that you can use plug-ins and change the maximum download speed in front-end mode as well (LP: #336306).
  • Adhere to the XDG Base Directory Specification by freedesktop.org for the location of the configuration and download directory. This means that LottaNZB’s configuration has been moved from ~/.lottanzb to
    ~/.config/lottanzb, while for new users, the download directory will default to whatever your distribution and locale settings specify. (LP: #261221, thanks to Hans Spaans for proposing this)
  • Choose whether NZB files added to the download queue should be deleted or not.
  • Pause or resume downloads directly from the notification area menu.
  • Threading bug fixed that caused ghost LottaNZB instances not to exit when they had successfully enqueued files passed as command line arguments.
  • Don’t use the term “Extracting” for the post-processing state if the user has disabled the automatic extraction of downloads. (LP: #312981, thanks to Freddy Peralta for reporting this)
  • LottaNZB’s GUI has been ported from libglade to GtkBuilder, because libglade is being deprecated by the GNOME project. This means that the application doesn’t depend on python-glade2 anymore, but requires PyGTK >= 2.16 in order to work.
  • Internally, the GUI code has been mostly separated from the rest of the application code.
  • Don’t show the main window if LottaNZB has yet to be configured during its first launch. Prevent the main window from overlapping other LottaNZB dialogs. (LP: #312315, thanks to VuDu for reporting this)
  • Remember the last location of the ‘Add file’ dialog over multiple sessions.
  • Don’t import HellaNZB configuration files like /etc/hellanzb.conf if no servers have been specified in the file.
  • LottaNZB’s installation routine has been made ready for the Python-related changes in Ubuntu 9.04.
  • The configuration system features better backward and forward compatibility.
  • Restore the main window’s position when the application is restarted.
  • New and updated translations.
  • Other bug fixes.