From eaccdfbeb65bf2c6411d0d3c4cb465fbb3d0b9fd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dave Davenport Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2016 08:59:00 +0100 Subject: Add gifs. --- releasenotes/1.3.0/release-1.3.0.markdown | 28 +++++++++++++++------------- releasenotes/1.3.0/resize.gif | Bin 0 -> 55925 bytes releasenotes/1.3.0/structure.png | Bin 33358 -> 53064 bytes releasenotes/1.3.0/theme-selector.gif | Bin 0 -> 167033 bytes 4 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) create mode 100644 releasenotes/1.3.0/resize.gif create mode 100644 releasenotes/1.3.0/theme-selector.gif (limited to 'releasenotes') diff --git a/releasenotes/1.3.0/release-1.3.0.markdown b/releasenotes/1.3.0/release-1.3.0.markdown index 0968652c..bf1259dd 100644 --- a/releasenotes/1.3.0/release-1.3.0.markdown +++ b/releasenotes/1.3.0/release-1.3.0.markdown @@ -1,32 +1,34 @@ # 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 release mostly focussed on cleaning up and refactoring the internals. One 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. ![structure](structure.png) -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. +This allowed us to make changes at run-time. In the future I hope we can use this to improve the theming (think css like +themes). 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. +Enabled by the refactoring, 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. +![Resize action](resize.gif) ### 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. -![Theme Selector](theme-selector.png) +![Theme Selector](theme-selector.gif) + +It seems byzanz (to record the gif) changes the colors a bit. It looks better in real-life. ### Fuzzy parser @@ -37,7 +39,7 @@ 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. +you can see the progress, 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. diff --git a/releasenotes/1.3.0/resize.gif b/releasenotes/1.3.0/resize.gif new file mode 100644 index 00000000..baa695da Binary files /dev/null and b/releasenotes/1.3.0/resize.gif differ diff --git a/releasenotes/1.3.0/structure.png b/releasenotes/1.3.0/structure.png index 4c86c084..973ecb0a 100644 Binary files a/releasenotes/1.3.0/structure.png and b/releasenotes/1.3.0/structure.png differ diff --git a/releasenotes/1.3.0/theme-selector.gif b/releasenotes/1.3.0/theme-selector.gif new file mode 100644 index 00000000..0341299b Binary files /dev/null and b/releasenotes/1.3.0/theme-selector.gif differ -- cgit v1.2.3