rofi/releasenotes/1.7.0/release-1.7.0.markdown

1.7.0: Iggy 2024

Rofi 1.7.0 is another bug-fix release that also removes a lot of deprecated features. This has been needed to keep rofi maintainable.

FileBrowser

Clickable button and icons

File Completion

Timeout actions

Background image and gradients

Changelog

• ADD: -steal-focus option.
• ADD: [Config] Add nested configuration option support.
• ADD: [Config] Support for handling dynamic config files.
• ADD: [DRun] Add fallback icon option.
• ADD: [DRun] Add support for passing file (using file-browser) completer for desktop files that support his.
• ADD: [DRun] Support for service files.
• ADD: [File Browser] Allow setting startup directory (#1325)
• ADD: [File Browser]: Add sorting-method. (#1340)
• ADD: [FileBrowser] Add option to group directories ahead of files. (#1352)
• ADD: [Filtering] Add prefix matching method. (#1237)
• ADD: [Icon] Add option to square the widget.
• ADD: [Icon|Button] Make action available on icon, button and keybinding name.
• ADD: [KeyBinding] Add Ctrl-Shift-Enter option. (#874)
• ADD: [ListView]-hover-select option. (#1234)
• ADD: [Run] Add support for passing file (using file-browser) completer.
• ADD: [Textbox] Allow theme to force markup on text widget.
• ADD: [Theme] Remove backwards compatiblity hack.
• ADD: [Theme] theme validation option. (-rasi-validate)
• ADD: [View] Add support for user timeout and keybinding action.
• ADD: [Widget] Add cursor property (#1313)
• ADD: [Widget] Add scaling option to background-image.
• ADD: [Widget] Add support background-image and lineair gradient option.
• ADD: [Window] Add pango markup for window format (#1288)
• FIX: [DSL] Move theme reset into grammar parser from lexer.
• FIX: [Drun]: fix sorting on broken desktop files. (thanks to nick87720z)
• FIX: [File Browser]: Fix escaping of paths.
• FIX: [ListView] Fix wrong subwidget name.
• FIX: [Script] Don't enable custom keybindings by default.
• FIX: [TextBox] Fix height estimation.
• FIX: [Theme] widget state and inherited properties. This should help fixing some old themes with changes from 1.6.1.
• FIX: [Widget] Fix rendering of border and dashes. (Thanks to nick87720z)
• REMOVE: -dump-xresources
• REMOVE: -fullscreen
• REMOVE: -show-match
• REMOVE: Old xresources based configuration file.
• REMOVE: fake transparency/background option, part of theme now.
• REMOVE: xresources parsing via Xserver
• DOC: Update changes to manpages

Thanks

Big thanks to:

• Quentin Glidic
• a1346054
• Ian C
• TonCherAmi
• nick87720z
• Markus Grab
• Zachary Freed
• nickofolas
• unisgn
• Jas
• rahulaggarwal965
• Awal Garg
• Eduard Lucena
• Lars Wendler

Apologis if I mistyped or missed anybody.