release

Finally, at long last, 1.8.0 has arrived. Long overdue, but still within the one year period since the last release: Workrave now gives additional feedback when becoming active during a break by flashing the break window border, the current mode is visualized in the system tray icon, a “Restbreak now” button was added, improved KDE support (native KDE applet and KDE sound events), added decent tooltips for Workrave system tray icon, and lots of new translations (Basque, Lithuanian, Portuguese, Norwegian, Czech, Hebrew).

This minor update adds a Brazilian Portuguese translation, thanks to Claudio Ferreira Filh.

A bug was introduced in version 1.6.0 which could cause the status window to disappear.

The Windows version of Workrave now includes a taskbar applet version of the status window. Timers can be configured to ignore activity. Improved full-screen “Block all” mode. Chinese, Russian and French translations have been added.

The most notable changes in this release are: added a new option “Block mode” ranging from no blocking (break windows can be freely dragged around) to full input and screen blocking, added multihead support for Windows, improved suspend (to ram) support, added “Shut down” and “Lock” buttons to the break windows. Furthermore, the stability on Windows improved considerably now that several longstanding issues have been resolved.