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# V1.4.0: I reject your truth and trumpstitute my own
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> This release contains some major changes. One of them being a new theme engine. The migration from older versions
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> to this version might not go flawless.
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With more then 700 commits since the last version, this is one of the biggest releases so far.
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In this version we used the groundwork laid in v1.3.0 and went completely nuts. This release should satisfy the die-hard
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desktop [ricers](https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/) with a brand new, CSS based, theme engine.
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The great work of [SardemFF7](https://github.com/SardemFF7/) simplified the code base and improved the key and mouse
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handling. It also made it possible to add a often requested feature of icons (correctly using the icon-theme). A feature
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I never expected to be added.
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A last big addition, is support for plugins. Allowing the addition of some weird/fancy features. Currently two plugins
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are available, [blezz](https://gitcrate.org/qtools/rofi-blezz) a quick launch menu with it own menu definition and
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[top](https://gitcrate.org/qtools/rofi-top/) displaying running processes.
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Beside these major changes, this release includes a lot of bug-fixes and small improvements. See the bottom of this
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release notes for the full list of changes.
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## CSS Like Theme engine
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2017-08-19 10:30:13 -04:00
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The biggest new feature of this release is the theme engine. It has a completely new theme format modelled after CSS.
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This allows for a lot more customizations.
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2017-08-19 10:30:13 -04:00
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### Colors
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You can now set the color on each widget independent in most of the CSS supported color formats (hsl, cmyk, rgb, etc.).
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> TODO: add picture of rofi rainbow colors.
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### Borders
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On every widget we can now configure a border for each of the four sides, the color of the border, the style of the
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border and the radius of the corners.
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> TODO: Add picture of crazy borders.
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This combined with (fake) transparency can make for a very nice looking, rounded rofi experience.
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> TODO: Rounded corner rofi.
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### Fonts
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An often made request was support for different fonts for the entry box and the list. With the new theme, it is possible
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to change the font and size of all widgets.
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> TODO: picture of mixture of fonts.
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### Flexible layout
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To top all these changes, as an advanced feature the whole layout of the window can be changed. Making it possible to
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mimic the original dmenu view, or make it appear as a minimal context menu.
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> TODO: insert two screenshot.
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## Icons
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2017-08-19 10:30:13 -04:00
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Another often made request, I never expected to be implemented, was icon support. But with the help of SardemFF7 an
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implementation was possible that correctly follows the XDG icon specification and does not negatively impact the
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performance.
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> TODO: Screenshot with icons.
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## More flexible key and mouse bindings
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## Fuzzy Matching
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## Initial Plugin support
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## Screenshot
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## Detailed Changelog
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* DMENU tty detection.
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* Startup notification of launched application support.
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* Meson support.
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* Fuzzy matching with fzf based sorting algorithm.
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* Auto-detect DPI.
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