ink-notes/packaging/ink-notes.metainfo.xml

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<component type="desktop-application">
  <id>eu.pansi.ink-notes</id>
  <metadata_license>CC0-1.0</metadata_license>
  <project_license>MIT</project_license>
  <name>ink-notes</name>
  <summary>Handwritten notes with pen, touch and mouse</summary>
  <summary xml:lang="de">Notizbuch-App für Stift, Touch und Maus</summary>
  <description>
    <p>
      ink-notes is a notebook app for Linux tablets and convertibles. Handwriting is stored as
      vectors; write with a pen, your finger, a touchpad or a mouse.
    </p>
    <p xml:lang="de">
      ink-notes ist eine Notizbuch-App für Linux-Tablets und Convertibles. Handschrift wird als
      Vektoren gespeichert; geschrieben wird mit Stift, Finger, Touchpad oder Maus.
    </p>
    <p>Features:</p>
    <p xml:lang="de">Funktionen:</p>
    <ul>
      <li>Pens and highlighter with pressure, smoothing while writing and sharp corners</li>
      <li xml:lang="de">Stifte und Textmarker mit Druckstärke, Glättung beim Schreiben und Ecken-Erhaltung</li>
      <li>Shape recognition: hold at the end of a stroke to get clean lines, arrows, circles, rectangles, triangles and coordinate systems</li>
      <li xml:lang="de">Formerkennung: am Strichende halten für saubere Linien, Pfeile, Kreise, Rechtecke, Dreiecke und Koordinatensysteme</li>
      <li>Eraser for whole strokes, partial strokes or highlighter only; virtual ruler</li>
      <li xml:lang="de">Radierer für ganze Striche, Teilstriche oder nur Textmarker; virtuelles Lineal</li>
      <li>Select, move, rotate, scale and recolor; undo for every change</li>
      <li xml:lang="de">Auswählen, Verschieben, Drehen, Skalieren und Umfärben; Rückgängig für alle Änderungen</li>
      <li>Text boxes, images and PDF import to annotate lecture slides and worksheets</li>
      <li xml:lang="de">Textfelder, Bilder und PDF-Import zum Beschriften von Vorlesungsfolien und Übungsblättern</li>
      <li>Notebooks in folders, continuous scrolling, automatic saving in the background</li>
      <li xml:lang="de">Notizbücher in Ordnern, durchgehendes Scrollen, automatisches Speichern im Hintergrund</li>
      <li>Export as PDF (with searchable text), PNG or SVG</li>
      <li xml:lang="de">Export als PDF (mit durchsuchbarem Text), PNG oder SVG</li>
    </ul>
  </description>
  <launchable type="desktop-id">eu.pansi.ink-notes.desktop</launchable>
  <provides>
    <binary>ink-notes</binary>
  </provides>
  <categories>
    <category>Office</category>
    <category>Graphics</category>
  </categories>
  <keywords>
    <keyword>notes</keyword>
    <keyword>handwriting</keyword>
    <keyword>stylus</keyword>
    <keyword>pen</keyword>
    <keyword>PDF</keyword>
    <keyword>annotate</keyword>
  </keywords>
  <supports>
    <control>pointing</control>
    <control>touch</control>
    <control>tablet</control>
  </supports>
  <developer id="eu.pansi">
    <name>Harald Pansi</name>
  </developer>
  <url type="homepage">https://gitea.pansi.eu/harald/ink-notes</url>
  <url type="bugtracker">https://gitea.pansi.eu/harald/ink-notes/issues</url>
  <url type="vcs-browser">https://gitea.pansi.eu/harald/ink-notes</url>
  <screenshots>
    <screenshot type="default">
      <caption>Notes with highlighter, handwriting and text boxes</caption>
      <caption xml:lang="de">Notizen mit Textmarker, Handschrift und Textfeldern</caption>
      <image>https://gitea.pansi.eu/harald/ink-notes/raw/tag/v0.26.1/packaging/screenshots/notes.png</image>
    </screenshot>
    <screenshot>
      <caption>Recognized shapes: coordinate system, triangle, circle, octahedron</caption>
      <caption xml:lang="de">Erkannte Formen: Koordinatensystem, Dreieck, Kreis, Oktaeder</caption>
      <image>https://gitea.pansi.eu/harald/ink-notes/raw/tag/v0.26.1/packaging/screenshots/shapes.png</image>
    </screenshot>
    <screenshot>
      <caption>Annotating imported PDF slides</caption>
      <caption xml:lang="de">Importierte PDF-Folien beschriften</caption>
      <image>https://gitea.pansi.eu/harald/ink-notes/raw/tag/v0.26.1/packaging/screenshots/pdf.png</image>
    </screenshot>
  </screenshots>
  <branding>
    <color type="primary" scheme_preference="light">#a8c8f0</color>
    <color type="primary" scheme_preference="dark">#1f3a5f</color>
  </branding>
  <content_rating type="oars-1.1" />
  <releases>
    <release version="0.29.1" date="2026-10-19">
      <description>
        <p>Moving, rotating and scaling large selections is smooth again and no longer keeps the processor busy. On endless notebooks the mouse wheel scrolls (Ctrl+wheel zooms).</p>
      </description>
    </release>
    <release version="0.29.0" date="2026-10-18">
      <description>
        <p>Endless notebooks: one surface without edges to write, pan and zoom in every direction. Choose it when creating a notebook or switch a single-page notebook in the menu; PDF export contains only the written area.</p>
      </description>
    </release>
    <release version="0.28.0" date="2026-10-18">
      <description>
        <p>Each notebook remembers whether it flips page by page or scrolls continuously. New notebooks start with fixed pages; the layout can be chosen when creating a notebook and changed later in the menu.</p>
      </description>
    </release>
    <release version="0.27.1" date="2026-10-18">
      <description>
        <p>The pens in the toolbar are shown as pencils in their own colour, so they are easy to tell apart.</p>
      </description>
    </release>
    <release version="0.27.0" date="2026-10-18">
      <description>
        <p>Pictures keep their proportions when resized. A lock button in the selection tool switches between proportional and free resizing; pictures start locked, other objects free.</p>
      </description>
    </release>
    <release version="0.26.2" date="2026-10-13">
      <description>
        <p>Smoother scrolling through large imported PDFs: pages no longer stall the display while they are prepared, and pages scrolled past quickly are skipped.</p>
      </description>
    </release>
    <release version="0.26.1" date="2026-10-10">
      <description>
        <p>Screenshots in the app description for software centers. The app itself is unchanged.</p>
      </description>
    </release>
    <release version="0.26.0" date="2026-10-10">
      <description>
        <p>Select and move objects with a finger; text and make-space tools also work with a finger. Exports go to the documents folder of the user directories.</p>
      </description>
    </release>
    <release version="0.25.0" date="2026-10-09">
      <description>
        <p>English user interface; the language follows the system and can be changed in the menu. Holding to snap a shape tolerates a slightly trembling pen.</p>
      </description>
    </release>
    <release version="0.24.0" date="2026-10-09">
      <description>
        <p>Axis cross from two crossing strokes.</p>
      </description>
    </release>
    <release version="0.23.0" date="2026-10-09">
      <description>
        <p>The on-screen keyboard of GNOME appears when tapping a text field.</p>
      </description>
    </release>
  </releases>
</component>