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author | Dave Davenport <qball@gmpclient.org> | 2016-03-30 07:58:45 +0200 |
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committer | Dave Davenport <qball@gmpclient.org> | 2016-03-30 07:58:45 +0200 |
commit | e3dc26fa9fe83842bf85e35709d8da9cc8410e9b (patch) | |
tree | 824dd5fd96c7ac5fa8545528429998282ef3bc34 /releasenotes | |
parent | b3d1718ad1046c6c57d4d81e693b18d241acf5e4 (diff) |
Update to release notes.
Diffstat (limited to 'releasenotes')
-rw-r--r-- | releasenotes/1.0.0/release-1.0.0.markdown | 21 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/releasenotes/1.0.0/release-1.0.0.markdown b/releasenotes/1.0.0/release-1.0.0.markdown index b34de57c..1c8f8fda 100644 --- a/releasenotes/1.0.0/release-1.0.0.markdown +++ b/releasenotes/1.0.0/release-1.0.0.markdown @@ -1,7 +1,8 @@ # V1.0.0 - Welcome in 2016 -The current release, after a long development cycle, is finally out. This version features two major rewrites in the -hope to improve maintainability and code quality. +The new release, after a long development cycle, is finally out. It has a lot of changes that are hopefully invisible to +the user. On top of that we decided it is time to deprecate some old stuff left from the simpleswitcher era. +The biggest changes in this version are two major rewrites in the hope to improve maintainability and code quality. ## XLib to xcb @@ -17,7 +18,8 @@ blinks. ## Config file Not everybody seems to like configuration via Xresources, so for those people we now support a configuration file in -`XDG_CONFIG_HOME/rofi/config`, or passed from the commandline via the `-config` option. +`XDG_CONFIG_HOME/rofi/config`, or passed from the commandline via the `-config` option. Settings in the config file will +override Xresources and is read on each startup. ## "Regression" @@ -26,10 +28,15 @@ namely daemon mode. In our opinion this is duplicate functionality, if you are u either running a window manager (like i3) that implements global hotkey functionality, or running a keyboard daemon like sxhkd. -Also the old method of specifying themes has been removed. +A second victim, that had been marked deprecated for more then a year, is the old method of specifying themes where +every color option had one commandline flag. This method was very verbose and incomplete. With the [theme +repository](https://github.com/DaveDavenport/rofi-themes/) and the online [theme +generator](https://davedavenport.github.io/rofi/p11-Generator.html) using and creating new themes should be easy enough. # Changelog +Below is a more complete changelog between the 0.15.12 and the 1.0.0 release. + ## New Features * Blinking cursor @@ -54,12 +61,12 @@ Also the old method of specifying themes has been removed. * Fix basic tests on OpenBSD (#272) * Fix wrong use of memcpy (thx to Jasperia). * Work around for sigwaitinfo on OpenBSD. -* Ignore invalid (non-utf8) in dmenu mode. +* Ignore invalid entries (non-utf8) in dmenu mode. * Glib signal handling. * Fix connecting to i3 on bsd. -* Be able to distinguish between empty and cancel. (#323) +* Be able to distinguish between empty and cancel in dmenu mode. (#323) * Fix memcpy on single memory region. (#312) -* Fix that opening file with mode a+ does not allow fseek on bsd. +* Fix opening file with mode a+ and using fseek to overwrite on bsd. ## Regressions |