Sigil-2.5.0 Released

[DiapDealer]

Thanks for reporting back! Man, I haven't thought about Slackware for a long time.

[retiredbiker]

Both appimages are up and running in pop!_os with no problems at all. Thank you so much for this wonderful software!

[DNSB]

Ditto in Tumbleweed.

[ElMiko]

Originally Posted by rkomar

Both the Sigil and PageEdit AppImage files started up in slackware-current with just some warnings about the locale. The last version of Sigil I installed was 0.2.0b (in 2010), so I have some catching up to do . Thanks for making it so easy to upgrade.

Someone even more stubborn than I am! (0.7.2)

@KevinH (et al), Thank you so much for the last-minute tweaks; it's really made the switchover an unmitigated improvement.

[DiapDealer]

For Windows users: the process to publish Sigil/PageEdit 2.5.0 to Microsoft's Community WinGet repository has begun. Sigil 2.5.0 should publish to Chocolatey very soon. There is one false positive out of 69 malware checks there, and of course, it's the usual AI/heuristic ding from Bkav Pro. I seriously don't understand why VirusTotal continues to include that worthless vendor in their checks. The amount of high profile false positives they produce is absolutely ridiculous.

[rkomar]

Originally Posted by ElMiko

Someone even more stubborn than I am! (0.7.2)

Ha! It wasn't like that. I haven't used it since I installed it fifteen years ago. I used it successfully back then to convert some scanned/ocr'ed books to epubs, but it was so much work that I gave up on doing any more after that.

I wanted to update sigil a bit since then, but the amount of work required to add the necessary packages to slackware put me off. This new self-contained version makes updating a no-brainer, even if I don't have immediate plans to use sigil right away.

[readx]

Thanks,
both appimages are running in Linux Mint 22.1 (integrated wih gear lever) with no problems at all.

[PeterT]

It's probably not best practice but I created a symbolic link of Sigil to the Sigil-2.5.0-x86_64.AppImage so the desktop file can just point to Sigil. This way on updates I just need to change the link.

[shuvashish76]

Thankyou for the AppImage, running fine on Debian 12/Bookworm.
Easy to integrate with AppImageLauncher.

Maybe publish the AppImage at https://www.appimagehub.com or get listed at https://appimage.github.io/apps/
Footnotes
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDesktop.org
- https://www.opendesktop.org/about
- https://www.pling.com/faq-pling

[dearleuk]

Got this setup now and it all seems to be working. but I have a slight problem with plugins.

For example PunctuationSmarten. I launch the plugin, select the first file and it usually gets highlighted in blue and then I press Ctrl A to select all files. But when using the Appimage, nothing gets highlighted, so really hard to tell if the files have been selected or not. The plugins runs if I select each file individually, but I can't tell what files have been selected and what haven't.

I'm running Ubuntu 24.04 and Mate desktop.

Anyone any ideas how resolve this please?

[DiapDealer]

I really don't like debugging these older tkinter plugins. Even when they're my own!

What version of Sigil were you using (before the AppImage) where this was working the way you expect it to? I ask because I don't think this has anything to do with the AppImage. I can't get Ctrl+a to do anything in the tk widget in the Arch packaged version of Sigil 2.5.0 either. I can see the files that are highlighted in the tk widget (in both the AppImage and the regular build) and I can highlight the first file, hold shift and click the last file to highlight them all, but Ctrl+a does nothing for me--regardless of if I'm using the AppImage or not.

I DO notice that tkinter dialogs seem to be scaling differently for me from the AppImage to the regular build. Built then tkinter has always behaved squirrelly for me.

[dearleuk]

Sigil 2.3.1, but running on Windows, sorry should have said that.

Shift and click worked, thank you. It would be nice to see the highlighted files, but not the end of the world.

Ctrl A has always worked in Windows.

Is there something better than PunctuationSmarten?

Thanks for your help

[DiapDealer]

Originally Posted by dearleuk

Shift and click worked, thank you. It would be nice to see the highlighted files, but not the end of the world.

So to be clear, you're not seeing any file highlighting at all in the plugin dialog? Maybe not blue like on Windows, but gray?

Originally Posted by dearleuk

Is there something better than PunctuationSmarten?

I don't think there's another Sigil plugin that will do punctuation smartening, so you're using the right plugin. I probably just need to upgrade the plugin to use a sane Qt-based GUI instead.

[dearleuk]

Originally Posted by DiapDealer

So to be clear, you're not seeing any file highlighting at all in the plugin dialog? Maybe not blue like on Windows, but gray?

No. No highlighting. Impossible to see if the file has been selected or not.

Thanks for the advice about PunctuationSmarten.

[DiapDealer]

Originally Posted by dearleuk

No. No highlighting. Impossible to see if the file has been selected or not.

Interesting. I'll have to do some checking to see if that's appimage-related or not. But it might be easier/quicker if I just update my PunctuationSmarten plugin.