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authorDave Davenport <qball@blame.services>2022-08-13 22:51:49 +0200
committerDave Davenport <qball@blame.services>2022-08-13 22:51:49 +0200
commit2cef4fd454406dec6c41308ba011451b8b542fc8 (patch)
treec698e3133bea438f2fbf0d50bb44cf932547f4d0
parent6ff082315f0d26e18889e78c7aec7c9f2da4e9ba (diff)
[doc] Update release notes.
-rw-r--r--releasenotes/1.7.4/release-1.7.4.markdown23
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/releasenotes/1.7.4/release-1.7.4.markdown b/releasenotes/1.7.4/release-1.7.4.markdown
index 09672d0e..9d398941 100644
--- a/releasenotes/1.7.4/release-1.7.4.markdown
+++ b/releasenotes/1.7.4/release-1.7.4.markdown
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# 1.7.4:
+# 1.7.4:
Another maintenance and small features expansion release. A lot of small
annoyances have been fixed and ignored errors are now more visually flagged to
@@ -19,14 +19,16 @@ We now have:
* rofi-script(5)
Another improvement made that can have huge impact on the user-experience is a
-massif speedup in the async input reading of dmenu. It turned out glib's
-GInputStream async functions where very slow, so a custom implementation has
-been made. Background loading is now close to the same speed as loading at
-start before displaying. A million item list is now near instant. On very large
-lists, the instant filtering automatically changes to be postponed until the
-user stops typing. This severely reduces system load.
+significant speedup in the async input reading of dmenu. It turned out glib's
+GInputStream async methods are very slow. On large input sets where it was
+supposed to improve the user experience, it made it unusable. To resolve this a
+custom implementation has been made. Background loading is now close to the
+same speed as loading at start before displaying. A million item list is now
+near instant. On very large lists, the instant filtering automatically changes
+to be postponed until the user stops typing. This severely reduces system load
+and interface blocking.
-A few long standing requests have been fixed:
+A few long standing feature requests and bug reports have been implemented or fixed:
* Listview flow. You can now change the flow in the listview from vertical first
to horizontal first. Making it mimic tables.
@@ -69,6 +71,8 @@ Detected user scripts:
</snip>
```
+This script can now by shows by running `rofi -show hc`.
+
* You can now render text as icons, this allows you to use glyphs icon fonts as
icons.
@@ -87,6 +91,9 @@ listview {
* You can now add a separate icon or textbox widget to the UI that displays the
current selected item. As an example see the included `sidebar-v2`.
+* A bug was fixed that caused problems with newer xkeyboard-config versions and
+ different keyboard layouts.
+
Below is a more complete list of changes:
# Changelog