rofi/releasenotes/1.7.0/release-1.7.0.markdown

# 1.7.0: Iggy 2024

![Iggy](./iggy.jpg)

Rofi 1.7.0 is another bug-fix release that also removes a lot of deprecated features.  Even though this might not be
popular, the deprecation of these options is needed to keep **rofi** maintainable.

Beside mostly bug-fixes some changes where made to improve the theming and 'abnormal' use of rofi.


## FileBrowser

TonCherAmi made several very nice usability improvements to the file-browser. His changes allow you to define sorting
and ordering of the entries and chaneg the default start directory.

These options can be set using the new 'nested' configuration format that we are testing in rofi:

```css
configuration {
   filebrowser {
      /** Directory the file browser starts in. */
      directory: "/some/directory";
      /**
        * Sorting method. Can be set to:
        *   - "name"
        *   - "mtime" (modification time)
        *   - "atime" (access time)
        *   - "ctime" (change time)
        */
      sorting-method: "name";
      /** Group directories before files. */
      directories-first: true;
   }
}
```


## File Completion

## Timeout actions


These options can be set using the new 'nested' configuration format that we are testing in rofi:

```css
configuration {
  timeout {
      delay:  15;
      action: "kb-cancel";
  }
}
```

## Background image and gradients

```css
window {
    background-image: url("/tmp/i3.png", both);
}
element {
    children: [element-icon, element-text];
    background-image: linear-gradient(to bottom, black/20%, white/20%, black/10%);
}
```

The below screenshot shows both background image and gradients.

![background image](./background-image.png)


## Clickable button and icons

```css
icon-paste {
    expand: false;
    filename: "gtk-paste";
    size: 24;
    vertical-align: 0.5;
    action: "kb-primary-paste";
}
```

```css
button-paste {
    expand: false;
    content: "My Clickable Message";
    vertical-align: 0.5;
    action: "kb-primary-paste";
}
```

The screenshot below shows a non-squared image and clickable buttons (the close icon in the top right) 

![rofi icons](./rofi-icons.png)

# Changelog

* ADD: -steal-focus option.
* ADD: [Config] Add nested configuration option support.
* ADD: [Config] Support for handling dynamic config files.
* ADD: [DRun] Add fallback icon option.
* ADD: [DRun] Add support for passing file (using file-browser) completer for desktop files that support his.
* ADD: [DRun] Support for service files.
* ADD: [File Browser] Allow setting startup directory (#1325)
* ADD: [File Browser]: Add sorting-method. (#1340)
* ADD: [FileBrowser] Add option to group directories ahead of files. (#1352)
* ADD: [Filtering] Add prefix matching method. (#1237)
* ADD: [Icon] Add option to square the widget.
* ADD: [Icon|Button] Make action available on icon, button and keybinding name.
* ADD: [KeyBinding] Add Ctrl-Shift-Enter option. (#874)
* ADD: [ListView]-hover-select option. (#1234)
* ADD: [Run] Add support for passing file (using file-browser) completer.
* ADD: [Textbox] Allow theme to force markup on text widget.
* ADD: [Theme] Remove backwards compatiblity hack.
* ADD: [Theme] theme validation option. (`-rasi-validate`)
* ADD: [View] Add support for user timeout and keybinding action.
* ADD: [Widget] Add cursor property (#1313)
* ADD: [Widget] Add scaling option to background-image.
* ADD: [Widget] Add support background-image and lineair gradient option.
* ADD: [Window] Add pango markup for window format (#1288)
* FIX: [DSL] Move theme reset into grammar parser from lexer.
* FIX: [Drun]: fix sorting on broken desktop files. (thanks to nick87720z)
* FIX: [File Browser]: Fix escaping of paths.
* FIX: [ListView] Fix wrong subwidget name.
* FIX: [Script] Don't enable custom keybindings by default.
* FIX: [TextBox] Fix height estimation.
* FIX: [Theme] widget state and inherited properties. This should help fixing some old themes with changes from 1.6.1.
* FIX: [Widget] Fix rendering of border and dashes. (Thanks to nick87720z)
* REMOVE: -dump-xresources
* REMOVE: -fullscreen
* REMOVE: -show-match
* REMOVE: Old xresources based configuration file.
* REMOVE: fake transparency/background option, part of theme now.
* REMOVE: xresources parsing via Xserver
* DOC: Update changes to manpages


# Thanks

Big thanks to:

* Quentin Glidic
* a1346054
* Ian C
* TonCherAmi
* nick87720z
* Markus Grab
* Zachary Freed
* nickofolas
* unisgn
* Jas
* rahulaggarwal965
* Awal Garg
* Eduard Lucena
* Lars Wendler

Apologis if I mistyped or missed anybody.