diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md index c381044f..e070e8d9 100644 --- a/NEWS.md +++ b/NEWS.md @@ -3,109 +3,70 @@ This file contains significant user-visible changes for each version. For full changelog, use `git log` -## 0.4.0 (2021-12-31) +[We are currently in the process of update the code-base to use the wlroots +scene-graph API](https://github.com/johanmalm/labwc/tree/scene) -Compile with wlroots 0.15.0 +Tag 0.5.0 is the last minor release before the move to scene-graph. An +associated v0.5 branch exists for patches and patch-tags if needed. It's +not envisaged that new features will be added on that branch though. -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: +## 0.5.0 (2022-02-18) -- The config option `` has changed to - `` (breaking change) -- 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 `` - - `` and `` - - Specify distance between views and output edges with `` - - `` - - Set menu item font with `` - - Allow `` without place="" attribute, thus enabling - simpler config files - - Support `` 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) - - `` configuration. Written-by: @ARDiDo - - `` -- 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 +This release contains the following two breaking changes: -## 0.3.0 (2021-06-28) +1. 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. -Compile with wlroots 0.14.0 +2. The "Drag" mouse-event and the unmaximize-on-move feature require + slightly different `` settings to feel natural, so suggest + updating any local `rc.xml` settings in accordance with + `docs/rc.xml.all` -- Add config options `` and `` - (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 +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. -## 0.2.0 (2021-04-15) +- Render overlay layer popups to support sfwbar (issue #239) + +- Support HiDPI on-screen-display images for outputs with different scales -Compile with wlroots 0.13.0 +- Reload environment variables on SIGHUPi (issue #227) -- 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 +- Add client menu -## 0.1.0 (2021-03-05) +- Allow applications to start in fullscreen -Compile with wlroots 0.12.0 and wayland-server >=1.16 +- Add config option `` to preview the contents + of each view when cycling through them (for example using alt-tab). -- 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 +- 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 + +## Previous releases + +| Date | Release notes | wlroots version | +|------------|---------------|-----------------| +| 2022-02-18 | [0.5.0] | 0.15.1 | +| 2021-12-31 | [0.4.0] | 0.15.0 | +| 2021-06-28 | [0.3.0] | 0.14.0 | +| 2021-04-15 | [0.2.0] | 0.13.0 | +| 2021-03-05 | [0.1.0] | 0.12.0 | + +[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