Meld is a file comparison tool equipped with other useful features that help the end-users, either it's a software developer or a regular user, to better control their projects and achieve satisfactory results.
The installation process goes rather smoothly and lasts under one minute. Once you enter the application, you discover a minimalist interface, with tabs, panels and toolbars, like any other app.
The menu navigation is very intuitive, there aren't many settings to configure, so the learning process shouldn't last too long. Yet, the buttons from the main menu seem poorly delimited, and some graphic customizations would make quite a difference.
When it comes to its features, Meld is capable of comparing two or three directories, file-by-file, showing multiple options, such as altered files, missing ones, or new files.
Users are able to directly open file comparisons of any conflicting or differing files, or filter out files or directories in order to avoid seeing spurious differences.
Other embedded features include simple file management, syntax highlighting, or built-in regex text filtering.
All in all, Meld is a nice addition for users who want to better organize their files, folders, and projects in order to simplify their daily tasks. Though it's free, it misses a documentation manual to help users speed up the learning process.
v3.1 [Sep 27, 2014]
New features:
Make syntax highlighting style configurable.
Implemented incremental search, match highlighting and many other find-related fixes.
Add support for GTK global dark theme setting.
Add support for pushing change deletions.
Remove cycle-pane action in favour of previous/next pane actions.
Fixes:
Handle Unicode filenames in a git tree correctly.
Many fixes for recent GTK deprecation warnings.
Fixing flickering inline highlighting on updates.
Multiple work arounds for change colours not displaying on GTK 3.14.
Fix inconsistent file chooser when cancelling file selection.
UTF-8 encode patches created from the patch dialog.
Fix text-wrapping reset caused by the commit dialog.
Fix text background display on certain themes.
Fix for launching Meld with certain Git environment variables.
Add GTK’s settings.ini file for font blurriness fix on Windows.
Fix display of change action buttons and line numbers when line numbers are shown.
Fix positioning of the change action buttons.
Fix tab width setting not working correctly.
Fix starting comparison of Subversion checkouts from a subdirectory.
Fix starting Meld from a differently-named symlink.
Ignore errors when copying file metadata if the destination file system doesn’t support it.
Automatically recompile stale in-place gschemas.
Handle SIGINT to support previous quit-on-Ctrl-C behaviour.
Fix missing cache opcodes in some circumstances.
Fix text view expansion when resizing patch dialog .
Build fix to always include C locale when LINGUAS is set.
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