From 3856056372d4ab7552aaa01bcfeef703ca638223 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dave Davenport Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2015 18:10:47 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Update release notes. --- releasenotes/0.15.12/release-0.15.12.markdown | 133 +++++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 95 insertions(+), 38 deletions(-) diff --git a/releasenotes/0.15.12/release-0.15.12.markdown b/releasenotes/0.15.12/release-0.15.12.markdown index 6c808417..d83c4a0b 100644 --- a/releasenotes/0.15.12/release-0.15.12.markdown +++ b/releasenotes/0.15.12/release-0.15.12.markdown @@ -1,50 +1,107 @@ # Release 0.15.12 -The 0.15.12 release of **rofi** focussed on improving overal user experience. -This includes fixing problems with complex keyboard layouts, locale aware matching and more. This release also include -(some experimental) speedups. If enabled, **rofi** will make full use of all available cores to speedup searching. -The final improvement, it related to creating and distributing of themes. Thanks to the great work of SardemFF7 we now -have an online themenator. -Below I will highlight some of the bigger changes in more details +The 0.15.12 release of **rofi** focussed on improving overall user experience. These improvements mostly focussed on +three things, first we tried to fix the problems with complex keyboard layouts, secondly we tried to make themeing of +**rofi** easier and last we added several speedups. Below I will highlight these bigger changes in more details + +## Keyboard Layouts + +**Rofi** used to have problems with keyboard layouts that used modifier keys to switch between different layouts (unsure +how this is called). These problems should now belong to the past. + +**Note** the syntax for binding keys has slightly changed. The *Mod1*, *Mod2*, etc. keywords are no longer available. +There was no good way to detect how these keys where mapped and if they could be used as modifiers. E.g. if the right +alt (say *Mod3*) is configured to switch between layouts, it cannot work as modifier key to make a `Mod3-p` keybinding. +**Rofi** will now check if the current layout has the *SuperR*,*SuperL*,*AltGr*,*HyperL*,*HyperR* keys available. If they +are available they can be used for keybindings, if not, the user gets a warning. + +*screenshot warning* ## Speedups +### DMenu reading from stdin + +**Rofi** used to have a custom `fgets` implementation that supported custom separators. The first version in here was +slow and was improved. After a hint of it existence it has now been replaced by the Posix 2008 `getdelim`, this one is +almost as fast as the new custom implementation. + +Overall this gave a speedup of 6x. + +*check speedup against previous release* + +### Multi-Core power + +Still disabled by default, **rofi** can now spawn multiple threads for filtering rows. Depending on the underlying +hardware we saw a 1.5 times speedup running on a dual core ARM and up to a 3.5 speedup on a quadcore (8 thread) i7. +It uses Glib's GThreadPool and will therefor spawn threads when needed, and clean them up again when unused. + +To enable this option pass `-threads 0` option, this will autodetect the number number of hw-threads. Pass `-threads 4` +to force it to use 4 threads. Setting the number to 1, disables it. + + ## Themes +**Rofi** color theme can be specified in a lot of detail, using transparency to get the desired results. However this is +not always the easiest to write down and testing it can be a hassle. To solve this we added a webgui for writing (and +live previewing) themes and a theme repository. + +To help with this, you can now take screenshots of **rofi** from within **rofi** with a simple keybinding. + +*Add screenshot* + ### Theme repository +This has been requested several times and started somewhat on the website. This however got outdated quickly and neither +the themes or the screenshots are correct anymore. To ease this the new repository allows themes to be easily added: you +can export your current configuration directly using **rofi --dump-xresources-theme**, place it in the theme directory +of the repository and the update script will automatically generate screenshots and update the page. + +The repository can be found [here](https://github.com/DaveDavenport/rofi-themes/) + +*add screenshot* + ### Themenator -### Dump themes +The second tool is a website allowing you to easily create themes and preview all changes life, the [themenator]() +Big thanks goes to `SardemFF7` who got tired of me complaining, took the very rough prototype and turned it into +something beautiful. -To be removed: -0.15.12 (unreleased): - New features: - - Initial `-dump` command for dmenu mode. (#216) - - Threading support. - - Parallel checking for ASCII. - - Parallel string matching. - - Autodetect number of HW-threads. - - Disabled by default. - - Highlight multiple selected rows (#287,#293) - - Dmenu can read from file instead of stdin. - - Regex matching (#113) - - Take Screenshot of rofi using keybinding. - - Hotkey for sorting: (#298) - - Option to set scrollbar width. - Improvements: - - Fix return code of multi-select. - - Update manpage (#289, #291) - - Improve speed of reading stdin in dmenu mode. - - Correctly handle modifier keys now. Should now support most weird keyboard layouts and switching between them. - (#268, #265, #286) - - Correctly set locale, fixing issues with entering special characters. (#282) - - DRun mode support `NoDisplay` setting (#283) - - Pango markup is matched when filtering. (#273) - Bug fixes: - - Improve error message (#290) - - Correctly switch to next entry on multi-select when list is filtered (#292) - - Switch __FUNCTION__ for __func__. (#288) - - Fix segfault on empty list and moving through it. (#256,#275) - - Fix one off of colors (#269) - - Drun fix uninitialized memory (#285) +Hopefully people will make beautiful themes and submit them to the [theme +repository](https://github.com/DaveDavenport/rofi-themes/). + + +## Full ChangeLog + +### New features: +- Initial `-dump` command for dmenu mode. (#216) +- Threading support. + - Parallel checking for ASCII. + - Parallel string matching. + - Autodetect number of HW-threads. + - Disabled by default. +- Highlight multiple selected rows (#287,#293) +- Dmenu can read from file instead of stdin. +- Regex matching (#113) +- Take Screenshot of rofi using keybinding. +- Hotkey for sorting: (#298) +- Option to set scrollbar width. + +### Improvements: + +- Fix return code of multi-select. +- Update manpage (#289, #291) +- Improve speed of reading stdin in dmenu mode. +- Correctly handle modifier keys now. Should now support most weird keyboard layouts and switching between them. +(#268, #265, #286) +- Correctly set locale, fixing issues with entering special characters. (#282) +- DRun mode support `NoDisplay` setting (#283) +- Pango markup is matched when filtering. (#273) + +### Bug fixes: + +- Improve error message (#290) +- Correctly switch to next entry on multi-select when list is filtered (#292) +- Switch __FUNCTION__ for __func__. (#288) +- Fix segfault on empty list and moving through it. (#256,#275) +- Fix one off of colors (#269) +- Drun fix uninitialized memory (#285)