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