labwc/NEWS.md

# Introduction

This file contains significant user-visible changes for each version.
For full changelog, use `git log`.

The format is based on [Keep a Changelog]

On the `master` branch we have moved across to the wlroots scene-graph
API and as a result there is likey to be a period of instability and
regression. A `v0.5` branch has been created as a stable pre-scene-graph
branch, but it is not envisaged that new major features will be added on
that branch.

# Summary of Releases

| Date       | Release notes | wlroots version | lines-of-code |
|------------|---------------|-----------------|---------------|
| 2022-05-17 | [0.5.2]       | 0.15.1          | 8829          |
| 2022-04-08 | [0.5.1]       | 0.15.1          | 8829          |
| 2022-02-18 | [0.5.0]       | 0.15.1          | 8766          |
| 2021-12-31 | [0.4.0]       | 0.15.0          | 8159          |
| 2021-06-28 | [0.3.0]       | 0.14.0          | 5051          |
| 2021-04-15 | [0.2.0]       | 0.13.0          | 5011          |
| 2021-03-05 | [0.1.0]       | 0.12.0          | 4627          |

## 0.6.0 - unreleased

This release contains significant refactoring to use the wlroots
scene-graph API, particularly src/output.c, server-side-decoration
and the layer-shell implementation. Many thanks to @Consolatis for some
heavy lifting with this. Native language support has been added by
@01micko.

### Added

- Presentation protocol

## [0.5.2] - 2022-05-17

This is a minor bugfix release mostly to ease packaging.

### Fixed

- Properly use system provided wlroots. Written-by: @eli-schwartz

## [0.5.1] - 2022-04-08

### Added

- Honour size increments from WM_SIZE_HINTS, for example to allow
  xwayland terminal emulators to be resized to a width/height evenly
  divisible by the cell size. Written-by: @jlindgren90
- Implement cursor input for overlay popups. Written-by: @Consolatis

### Fixed

- Do not raise xwayland windows when deactivating (issue #270).
  Written-by: @Consolatis
- Restore drag mouse-bindings and proper double-click (issues #258 and
  #259). Written-by: @Consolatis
- Implement cursor input for unmanaged xwayland surfaces outside their
  parent view. Without this menus extending outside the main application
  window do not receive mouse input. Written-by: @jlindgren90
- Allow dragging scrollbar or selecting text even when moving cursor
  outside of the window (issue #241). Written-by: @Consolatis
- Fix positioning of xwayland views with multiple queued configure
  events. Written-by: @Consolatis
- Force a pointer enter event on the surface below the cursor when
  cycling views (issue #162). Written-by: @Consolatis
- Fix qt application crash on touchpad scroll (issue #225).
  Written-by: @Consolatis

## [0.5.0] - 2022-02-18

As usual, this release contains a bunch of fixes and improvements, of
which the most notable feature-type changes are listed below. A big
thank you to @ARDiDo, @Consolatis and @jlindgren90 for much of the hard
work.

### Added

- Render overlay layer popups to support sfwbar (issue #239)
- Support HiDPI on-screen-display images for outputs with different scales
- Reload environment variables on SIGHUP (issue #227)
- Add client menu
- Allow applications to start in fullscreen
- Add config option `<core><cycleViewPreview>` to preview the contents
  of each view when cycling through them (for example using alt-tab).
- Allow mouse movements to trigger SnapToEdge. When dragging a view, move
  the cursor outside an output to snap in that direction.
- Unmaximize on Move
- Support wlroots environment variable `WLR_{WL,X11}_OUTPUTS` for running
  in running nested in X11 or a wlroots compositor.
- Support pointer gestures (pinch/swipe)
- Adjust views to account for output layout changes

### Changed

This release contains the following two breaking changes:

- Disabling outputs now causes views to be re-arranged, so in the
  context of idle system power management (for example when using
  swaylock), it is no longer suitable to call wlr-randr {--off,--on}
  to enable/disable outputs.
- The "Drag" mouse-event and the unmaximize-on-move feature require
  slightly different `<mousebind>` settings to feel natural, so suggest
  updating any local `rc.xml` settings in accordance with
  `docs/rc.xml.all`

## [0.4.0] - 2021-12-31

Compile with wlroots 0.15.0

This release contains lots of internal changes, fixes and  new features.
A big thank you goes out to @ARDiDo, @bi4k8, @Joshua-Ashton,
@jlindgren90, @Consolatis, @telent and @apbryan. The most notable
feature-type changes are listed below.

### Added

- Add support for the following wayland protocols:
    - `pointer_constraints` and `relative_pointer` - mostly for gaming.
      Written-by: @Joshua-Ashton
    - `viewporter` - needed for some games to fake modesets.
      Written-by: @Joshua-Ashton
    - `wlr_input_inhibit`. This enables swaylock to be run.
      Written-by: @telent
    - `wlr_foreign_toplevel`. This enables controlling windows from clients
      such as waybar.
    - `idle` and `idle_inhibit` (Written-by: @ARDiDo)
- Support fullscreen mode.
- Support drag-and-drop. Written-by: @ARDiDo
- Add the following config options:
    - Load default keybinds on `<keyboard><default />`
    - `<keyboard><repeatRate>` and `<keyboard><repeatDelay>`
    - Specify distance between views and output edges with `<core><gap>`
    - `<core><adaptiveSync>`
    - Set menu item font with `<theme><font place="MenuItem">`
    - Allow `<theme><font>` without place="" attribute, thus enabling
      simpler config files
    - Support `<mousebind>` with `contexts` (e.g. `TitleBar`, `Left`,
      `TLCorner`, `Frame`), `buttons` (e.g. `left`, `right`), and
      `mouse actions` (e.g. `Press`, `DoubleClick`). Modifier keys are
      also supported to handle configurations such as `alt` + mouse button
      to move/resize windows. (Written-by: @bi4k8, @apbryan)
    - `<libinput>` configuration. Written-by: @ARDiDo
    - `<resistance><screenEdgeStrength>`
- Support for primary selection. Written-by: @telent
- Support 'alt-tab' on screen display when cycling between windows
  including going backwards by pressing `shift` (Written-by: @Joshua-Ashton)
  and cancelling with `escape` (Written-by: @jlindgren90)
- Add the following theme options:
    - set buttons colors individually (for iconify, close and maximize)
    - `window.(in)active.label.text.color`
    - `window.label.text.justify`
    - OSD colors
- Show application title in window decoration title bar
- Handle double click on window decoration title bar
- Support a 'resize-edges' area that is wider than than the visible
  window decoration. This makes it easier to grab edges to resize
  windows.
- Add window actions 'MoveToEdge', 'ToggleMaximize', 'Close', 'Iconify',
  'ToggleDecorations', 'ToggleFullscreen', 'SnapToEdge', 'Focus', 'Raise',
  'Move', 'MoveToEdge', 'Resize', 'PreviousWindow', 'ShowMenu'
- Add labwc.desktop for display managers
- layer-shell:
    - Take into account exclusive areas of clients (such as panels) when
      maximizing windows
    - Support popups
- Handle xwayland `set_decorations` and xdg-shell-decoration requests.
  Written-by: @Joshua-Ashton
- Handle view min/max size better, including xwayland hint support.
  Written-by: @Joshua-Ashton
- Handle xwayland move/resize events. Written-by: @Joshua-Ashton
- Support audio and monitor-brightness keys by default
- Catch ctrl-alt-F1 to F12 to switch tty
- Support `XCURSOR_THEME` and `XCURSOR_SIZE` environment variables
- Support submenus including inline definitions

### Changed

- The config option `<lab><xdg_shell_server_side_deco>` has changed to
  `<core><decoration>` (breaking change)

## [0.3.0] - 2021-06-28

Compile with wlroots 0.14.0

### Added

- Add config options `<focus><followMouse>` and `<focus><raiseOnFocus>`
  (provided-by: Mikhail Kshevetskiy)
- Do not use Clearlooks-3.4 theme by default, just use built-in theme
- Fix bug which triggered Qt application segfault

## [0.2.0] - 2021-04-15

Compile with wlroots 0.13.0

### Added

- Support wlr-output-management protcol for setting output position, scale
  and orientation with kanshi or similar
- Support server side decoration rounded corners
- Change built-in theme to match default GTK style
- Add labwc-environment(5)
- Call `wlr_output_enable_adaptive_sync()` if `LABWC_ADAPTIVE_SYNC` set

## [0.1.0] - 2021-03-05

Compile with wlroots 0.12.0 and wayland-server >=1.16

### Added

- Support xdg-shell and optionally xwayland-shell
- Show xbm buttons for maximize, iconify and close
- Support layer-shell protocol (partial)
- Support damage tracking to reduce CPU usage
- Support very basic root-menu implementation
- Re-load config and theme on SIGHUP
- Support simple configuration to auto-start applications, set
  environment variables and specify theme, font and keybinds.
- Support some basic theme settings for window borders and title bars
- Support basic actions including Execute, Exit, NextWindow, Reconfigure and
  ShowMenu

[Keep a Changelog]: https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/
[0.5.2]: https://github.com/labwc/labwc/releases/tag/0.5.2
[0.5.1]: https://github.com/labwc/labwc/releases/tag/0.5.1
[0.5.0]: https://github.com/labwc/labwc/releases/tag/0.5.0
[0.4.0]: https://github.com/labwc/labwc/releases/tag/0.4.0
[0.3.0]: https://github.com/labwc/labwc/releases/tag/0.3.0
[0.2.0]: https://github.com/labwc/labwc/releases/tag/0.2.0
[0.1.0]: https://github.com/labwc/labwc/releases/tag/0.1.0