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author | Dave Davenport <qball@gmpclient.org> | 2016-08-08 18:04:57 +0200 |
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committer | Dave Davenport <qball@gmpclient.org> | 2016-08-08 18:04:57 +0200 |
commit | dc043a12e54c126906c5797ab3f38799d48aa9db (patch) | |
tree | 26144da0a4db79155a0a7accbe5d1eb84f82f163 /releasenotes/1.2.0 | |
parent | b9aacf30f1c00b47ece20a90c771c919245c036e (diff) |
Updated release notes
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-rw-r--r-- | releasenotes/1.2.0/release-1.2.0.markdown | 28 |
1 files changed, 19 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/releasenotes/1.2.0/release-1.2.0.markdown b/releasenotes/1.2.0/release-1.2.0.markdown index ecc667a6..2187820d 100644 --- a/releasenotes/1.2.0/release-1.2.0.markdown +++ b/releasenotes/1.2.0/release-1.2.0.markdown @@ -1,7 +1,11 @@ -# V1.2.0 - Something Something Darkside +# V1.2.0 - 8397 ## New Features +Despite me saying after every release that it is mostly feature complete; new **Rofi**, new features. +However these new features are mostly to improve current functionality and debugging. +Below the 4 most important ones. + ### Underline Match A new, hopefully welcome, addition is that **Rofi** now highlights the match in each row: @@ -9,10 +13,14 @@ A new, hopefully welcome, addition is that **Rofi** now highlights the match in ![Rofi Underline](./rofi-underline-match.png) To accomplish this, now all matching is done using *GRegex*, as this returns the exact location in the string of each match. +While I don't see a direct use, it is something a lot of other *quick search* tools provide, so **Rofi** could not stay +behind. ## Multiline Select -While already existing, we now improved the multi-line select in **dmenu** mode. It will allow you to select and unselect rows, selected rows are highlighted with a dot and a small counter indicated the amount of rows selected. +While already existing in a very rudimentary form, we now improved the multi-line select in **dmenu** mode. It will +allow you to select and unselect rows, selected rows are highlighted with a dot and a small counter indicated the amount +of rows selected. ![Rofi Multi Select](./rofi-multi-select.png) @@ -36,22 +44,24 @@ Xresources, configuration file or commnadline. ![Rofi configuration tracking](./rofi-options.png) +This should help debugging recent bugs, where people had an invalid `pid` path set in the configuration file. +Additionally if you dump the configuration, for using on another pc, it will comment the options that are set to their +default value. (So f.e. pidfile location won't be overriden). + ## Bug Fixes +As no tool is without bugs, and **Rofi** not being the exception, we did manage to squash a few. -* Fix current desktop window selector -* Fix launching application in terminal +* Fix current desktop window selector. +* Fix launching application in terminal. * Support ```#include``` in config file. -* **XLib** dependency. The last hard dependency on **Xlib** has been removed by the use of - **[xcb-util-xrm](https://github.com/Airblader/xcb-util-xrm)**. * Fix rofi on 30bit 10 bit per channel display. -* Indicate what set an option in rofi help and dump resources. -* Comment unset options in dump. Allowing configurations to be shared more easily. * Correct `Control-u` behaviour to remove till begin of line. `Control-w` now whipes the line. * Add missing `Control-k` keybinding, delete till end of line. - ## Remove features * Removed fuzzy finder * Remove **[i3](http://www.i3wm.org)** workarounds. As **i3** has, for more than a year now, native support for EWMH. +* Remove **XLib** dependency. The last hard dependency on **Xlib** has been removed by the use of + **[xcb-util-xrm](https://github.com/Airblader/xcb-util-xrm)**. |