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authorDave Davenport <qball@gmpclient.org>2017-09-25 22:28:47 +0200
committerDave Davenport <qball@gmpclient.org>2017-09-25 22:28:47 +0200
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# V1.4.0: I reject your truth and trumpstitute my own
-> This release contains some major changes. One of them being a new theme engine. The migration from older versions to
-> this version might not go flawless.
-
-With more then 750 commits since the last version, this is one of the biggest releases so far.
-In this version we used the groundwork laid in v1.3.0 and went completely nuts with it. Hopefully this release should
-satisfy the die-hard desktop [ricers](https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/) with a brand new theme engine.
-Lot of different colors, border, multiple fonts everything is now possible.
-
-Because of The great work done by [SardemFF7](https://github.com/SardemFF7/) the code base is simplified and the
-key and mouse handling improved. The libraries provided by SardemFF7 also made it possible to add a often requested
-feature of icons (correctly using the icon-theme). A feature I never expected to be added. To top this off, SardemFF7
-added support to build rofi using [meson](http://mesonbuild.com/).
-
-A last big addition and still in beta, is support for plugins. Allowing the addition of some weird/fancy features.
-Currently two plugins are available, [blezz](https://gitcrate.org/qtools/rofi-blezz) a quick launch menu with it own
-menu definition and [top](https://gitcrate.org/qtools/rofi-top/) displaying running processes.
-
-Beside these major changes, this release includes a lot of bug-fixes and small improvements. See the bottom of this
-release notes for a more complete list of changes.
+> This release contains some major changes. One of them being a new theme
+> engine. The migration from older versions to this version might not go
+> flawless.
+
+With more then 750 commits since the last version, this is one of the biggest
+releases so far. In this version we used the groundwork laid in v1.3.0 and went
+completely nuts with it. Hopefully this release should satisfy the die-hard
+desktop [ricers](https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/) with a brand new theme
+engine. Lot of different colors, border, multiple fonts everything is now
+possible.
+
+Because of The great work done by [SardemFF7](https://github.com/SardemFF7/) the
+code base is simplified and the key and mouse handling improved. The libraries
+provided by SardemFF7 also made it possible to add a often requested feature of
+icons (correctly using the icon-theme). A feature I never expected to be added.
+To top this off, SardemFF7 added support to build rofi using
+[meson](http://mesonbuild.com/).
+
+A last big addition and still in beta, is support for plugins. Allowing the
+addition of some weird/fancy features. Currently two plugins are available,
+[blezz](https://gitcrate.org/qtools/rofi-blezz) a quick launch menu with it own
+menu definition and [top](https://gitcrate.org/qtools/rofi-top/) displaying
+running processes.
+
+Beside these major changes, this release includes a lot of bug-fixes and small
+improvements. See the bottom of this release notes for a more complete list of
+changes.
## Theme engine
-The biggest new feature of this release is the theme engine. Building on the changes made in v1.3.0 we implemented a new
-theme engine and it has a completely new theme format. While the themes are a lot more verbose now, it does allow for a
-lot of extra customizations.
+The biggest new feature of this release is the theme engine. Building on the
+changes made in v1.3.0 we implemented a new theme engine and it has a completely
+new theme format. While the themes are a lot more verbose now, it does allow for
+a lot of extra customizations.
It is now possible to theme each widget in rofi independently:
### Colors
-You can now set the color on each widget independent in most of the CSS supported color formats (hsl, cmyk, rgb, etc.)
-and each color can have a transparency. There are three colors that can be set on each widget:
+You can now set the color on each widget independent in most of the CSS
+supported color formats (hsl, cmyk, rgb, etc.) and each color can have a
+transparency. There are three colors that can be set on each widget:
* **background-color**
- Used to draw the background of the widget. Each widget is drawn on top of it parent, if the background is
- transparent, you will see the parents widget.
+ Used to draw the background of the widget. Each widget is drawn on top of it
+ parent, if the background is transparent, you will see the parents widget.
* **border-color**
Used to draw the borders.
* **text-color**
@@ -46,51 +56,62 @@ and each color can have a transparency. There are three colors that can be set o
### Borders
-On every widget we can now configure a border for each of the four sides, the color of the border, the style of the
-border (solid or dashed) and the radius of the corners can be set.
+On every widget we can now configure a border for each of the four sides, the
+color of the border, the style of the border (solid or dashed) and the radius of
+the corners can be set.
![border1](rofi-border.png)
-This combined with (fake) transparency can make for a very nice looking, rounded rofi experience.
+This combined with (fake) transparency can make for a very nice looking, rounded
+rofi experience.
![border2](rofi-border-transp.png)
### Fonts
-An often made request was support for different fonts for the entry box and the list. With the new theme, it is possible
-to change the font and size of all widgets.
+An often made request was support for different fonts for the entry box and the
+list. With the new theme, it is possible to change the font and size of all
+widgets.
![fonts](rofi-fonts.png)
-> Note that opening a fonts is one of the slowest operations during rofi startup; having multiple fonts could have a
-> significant impact on startup times.
+> Note that opening a fonts is one of the slowest operations during rofi
+> startup; having multiple fonts could have a significant impact on startup
+> times.
### Flexible layout
-To top all these changes, as an advanced feature the whole layout of the window can be changed. Making it possible to
-mimic the original dmenu view, or make it appear as a minimal context menu.
+To top all these changes, as an advanced feature the whole layout of the window
+can be changed. Making it possible to mimic the original dmenu view, or make it
+appear as a minimal context menu.
![dmenu](rofi-dmenu.png)
## Error reporting
-The new theme parser will also be more verbose when encountering parsing errors, hopefully helping debugging and
-modifying themes.
+The new theme parser will also be more verbose when encountering parsing errors,
+hopefully helping debugging and modifying themes.
-For example when forgetting a trailing ';' will report where it failed, and what it expected (a ';').
+For example when forgetting a trailing ';' will report where it failed, and what
+it expected (a ';').
![rofi-error](rofi-error.png)
## Importing
-The new theme parser also support importing and overriding. This allow you to make make modifications to an existing
-theme, without having to completely copy it. For example, I want to use the `arthur` theme (shipped with rofi) but use
-fake transparency and change the font off the result list.
+The new theme parser also support importing and overriding. This allow you to
+make make modifications to an existing theme, without having to completely copy
+it. For example, I want to use the `arthur` theme (shipped with rofi) but use
+fake transparency, change the font off the result list and import a set of
+overriding colors from `mycolors`.
```css
// Import the default arthur theme
-@import "arthur"
+@theme "arthur"
+
+// Load in overriding of colors from mycolors.
+@import "mycolors"
/* on the window widget, set transparency to use a screenshot of the screen. */
#window {
@@ -104,9 +125,11 @@ fake transparency and change the font off the result list.
## Icons
-Another often made request, I never expected to be implemented, was icon support. With the help of SardemFF7 an
-implementation was possible that correctly follows the XDG icon specification and does not negatively impact the
+Another often made request, I never expected to be implemented, was icon
+support. With the help of SardemFF7 an implementation was possible that
+correctly follows the XDG icon specification and does not negatively impact the
performance. Currently the drun and the window switcher can application icons.
+To enable icons, set the `show-icons` property to `true`.
![icons](rofi-icons.png)
@@ -115,8 +138,8 @@ performance. Currently the drun and the window switcher can application icons.
## More flexible key and mouse bindings
Thanks to another great work of SardemFF7 you can now configure how the mouse
-behave and bind modifier keys. It also improves on error messages. It will now
-detect duplicate bindings.
+behave and bind modifier keys. It also improves on error messages. For example
+it will now detect duplicate bindings.
For example to select an entry on single click, instead of double click:
@@ -127,8 +150,9 @@ rofi -show run -me-select-entry '' -me-accept-entry 'Mouse1'
## Fuzzy Matching
-With thanks to Fangrui Song, the `fuzzy` matcher will now use a ranking similar to `fzf` to sort the results.
-This should hopefully to improve the results, something a lot of users will appreciate.
+With thanks to Fangrui Song, the `fuzzy` matcher will now use a ranking similar
+to `fzf` to sort the results. This should hopefully to improve the results,
+something a lot of users will appreciate.
Without:
@@ -143,13 +167,15 @@ With:
> This feature is still in beta stage.
-It is now possible to add custom mode via C plugins. This is allows interactive modi to be added to rofi.
-For example it is possible to have `top` (display linux processes) mode:
+It is now possible to add custom mode via C plugins. This is allows interactive
+modi to be added to rofi. For example it is possible to have `top` (display
+linux processes) mode:
![rofi top](rofi-top.png)
-This mode allows sorting of the result on different keys (cpu usage, memory, etc.) to be selected, programs to be killed
-and refreshes the results every 2 seconds.
+This mode allows sorting of the result on different keys (cpu usage, memory,
+etc.) to be selected, programs to be killed and refreshes the results every 2
+seconds.
See [here](https://gitcrate.org/qtools/rofi-top).
@@ -158,9 +184,10 @@ See [here](https://gitcrate.org/qtools/rofi-top).
> This feature is in alpha stage.
-The new theme format can now (as an alpha) feature be used to set rofi's configuration. In the future, when we add
-wayland support, we want to get rid of the current Xresources (X11) based configuration format.
-You can see how this would look using: `rofi -dump-config`.
+The new theme format can now (as an alpha) feature be used to set rofi's
+configuration. In the future, when we add wayland support, we want to get rid of
+the current Xresources (X11) based configuration format. You can see how this
+would look using: `rofi -dump-config`.
## Detailed Changelog
@@ -169,7 +196,8 @@ You can see how this would look using: `rofi -dump-config`.
* Keybinding. Duplicate bindings will now be reported.
* Invalid commandline options.
* Etc.
-* Customizable highlight, allowing underline, strikethrough, italic, bold, small caps and the color to be set.
+* Customizable highlight, allowing underline, strikethrough, italic, bold, small
+ caps and the color to be set.
* Give up when keyboard is not grabbed in first 5 seconds.
* Improve manpage
* rofi (1)