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# V1.3.0: Dan vs. Greg: The never ending story.
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This release mostly focussed on cleaning up and refactoring the internals. One of the big changes is that the gui is no
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longer based on hard-coded positions. We introduced a widget system with boxes, scrollbars, separators, listview and
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textboxes. The boxes (vertical and horizontal) allows us to nice structure the layout and have them resize according to
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rules when the window changes size.
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This allowed us to make changes at run-time. In the future I hope we can use this to improve the theming (think css like
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themes). The cleanup and refactoring is not finished and will continue for the next release.
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Beside this we still managed to get some new features in:
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## Dynamic window size
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Enabled by the refactoring, rofi can now resize the window to fit the number of visible entries, so as you type and the
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list of options becomes small, so does the windows (this is disabled by default). Rofi will try to keep the text box at
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the same place so you don't have to move focus, this means that at the bottom of the screen the window layout is
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reversed so the textbox is at the bottom.
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### Theme selector
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To make it easier to get a good looking rofi, we included a theme-selector script and ship rofi with a set of themes.
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The script allows you to preview themes, and make them the default theme.
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It seems byzanz (to record the gif) changes the colors a bit. It looks better in real-life.
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### Fuzzy parser
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On many request, the fuzzy matcher has been re-added:
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### ASync DMENU
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Rofi can read input data for dmenu asynchronous from displaying. So if you have something that takes a time to produce,
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you can see the progress, start filtering and selecting entries before it finishes.
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This can be very useful when searching through large data sets.
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In the below screenshot it keeps feeding rofi the content of the directory. Rofi indicates it is still receiving data by
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the `loading...` text.
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Async mode is not always possible, and will be disabled if not possible.
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### Drawing improvements
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In this release rofi is more efficient in drawing its content to the X11 window. The basic redraw on expose has been
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speedup by a factor 1000. This was obtained by using a server side copy of the internal surface, instead of painting it
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with cairo each time. Especially for large (4k and higher) screens, in fullscreen mode, this reduces redrawing from +-
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180ms to 0.1 ms. A second improvement was made by configuring X11 not repaint the window background when resized, this
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caused some flickering (it was painted black before being drawn). It now keeps the old content and tells rofi to
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repaint. This causes trailing, but overall looks nicer.
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## Removals
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We also removed a deprecated option, `-opacity`. Did option did full window opacity, basically it makes the whole window
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and text transparent. A very ugly effect. The current argb colors in the theme allow a nice transparency, where only the
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background of the window is transparent but not the text (you can still reproduce the old style in the new theme format,
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by making all colors transparent).
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## Detailed Changelog
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### New Features
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- Use randr for getting monitor layout. Fallback to xinerama if not available.
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- Re-add fuzzy matcher.
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- Restructure internal code to use dynamic sizing widgets. (hbox, vbox and lists)
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- Async mode for dmenu.
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- Add theme selector script.
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- Include 21 themes.
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- Dynamically sizing window with content.
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- When placed at bottom of screen re-order screen to have entry at bottom.
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### Improvements
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- Fix pasting secondary clipboard. (#516)
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- By default use all cores to filter entries.
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- Make sure drawing priority is higher then reading input data.
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- Improve resizing of window, don't make X whipe background.
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- Improve close window (shift-delete) action, by sending NET_WM_CLOSE instead of destroying window.
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- Create cache and run directory on startup. (#497)
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- Fix unneeded redraws on cursor blinking. (#491)
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- Improve time till grabbing keyboard. (#494)
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- Better error message when failing to parse keybindings, also continue parsing on error.
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- Fix problem with custom layouts (#485)
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- Speedup drawing of screen. Works well now for 4k and 8k screens. (factor 1000+ speedup for the flipping of buffer)
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(#496)
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- DRun mode more compatible with specification.
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- Debug output via g_log.
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- Fix password entry cursor position.
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- Use bash instead of sh for get_git_rev.sh (#445)
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- Add Control+G for cancel (#452)
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- Add padding option to textbox (#449)
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- Ctrl-click does alternate accept entry. (#429)
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- Hide window decoration in normal window mode.
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- Click to exit option. (#460)
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- Fix cursor blinking on moving. (#462)
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- Remove entry from history if fails to execute (#466)
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- Fix margins. (#467)
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- Improved documentation of functions in code.
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- DRun: Set work directory when executing file. (#482)
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- Memory leak fixes.
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- Improve scrollbar behaviour.
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### Removals
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- opacity option. The transparency support in the theme can do the same and more.
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