kawaii-player-v2.9.9-0-beta

This release is for testing purpose and does not contain any binaries. Those who want to test new features will have to build package for their distribution from source as given in documentation. Binaries will be made available during relase of v3.0.0. The v3.0 will be relased (most probably) in next 2-3 weeks.

New Features:

• Ability to use system theme, instead of default theme. Application can follow system theme instead of using its own stylesheet.

• Special Thumbnail Wall mode, which is lightweight compared to default thumbnail mode.

• History section of Video Category modified, which can arrange series in last watched order. The section will automatically remember audio/subtitle track information and last quit position.

• New 'Recent' section added in Video Category, which will contain items in recently added order.

• Ability to use 'shift+q' to remember position on quit similar to mpv's default keybindings

• various bugs fixed in tvdb scraper

• Remebers queued items between session

• History section added in p2p mode

• Thumbnail mode 2 and 5 are optimized

• Faster Video update method

• Stylesheet of buttons in thumbnail mode and browsers modified

• Search as type functionality added for TitleList, Playlist and Thumbnail Widget

• Better offline mode

• Lot of code cleaning and bug fixes. See the commit history to know more about details

How To Apply New Settings?
Before testing the application, remove or backup 'other_options.txt' file available in ~/.config/kawaii-player directory (if old version of the application has already been installed). New file will contain few more settings options. Users can setup theme and other parameters in it.