diff --git a/releasenotes/1.3.0/dmenu-async.png b/releasenotes/1.3.0/dmenu-async.png new file mode 100644 index 00000000..1db82e5c Binary files /dev/null and b/releasenotes/1.3.0/dmenu-async.png differ diff --git a/releasenotes/1.3.0/fuzzy.png b/releasenotes/1.3.0/fuzzy.png new file mode 100644 index 00000000..f7f953fb Binary files /dev/null and b/releasenotes/1.3.0/fuzzy.png differ diff --git a/releasenotes/1.3.0/release-1.3.0.markdown b/releasenotes/1.3.0/release-1.3.0.markdown index 3616385a..3c9eaaf2 100644 --- a/releasenotes/1.3.0/release-1.3.0.markdown +++ b/releasenotes/1.3.0/release-1.3.0.markdown @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ based on hard-coded positions. We introduced a widget system with boxes, scrollb The boxes (vertical and horizontal) allows us to nice structure the layout and have them resize according to rules when the window changes size. -![structure](structure.svg) +![structure](structure.png) This allowed us to make changes at run-time. In the future I hope we can use this to improve the theming. The cleanup and refactoring is not finished and will continue for the next release. @@ -14,22 +14,45 @@ Beside this we still managed to get some new features in: ## Dynamic window size -rofi can how resize the window to fit the number of visible entries, so as you type and the list of options becomes +Tofi can how resize the window to fit the number of visible entries, so as you type and the list of options becomes small, so does the windows (this is disabled by default). Rofi will try to keep the text box at the same place so you -don't have to move focus. At the bottom of the screen the window layout is reversed so the textbox is at the bottom. +don't have to move focus, this means that at the bottom of the screen the window layout is reversed so the textbox is at +the bottom. -insert small gif here. +insert small gif here. -## Theme selector +### Theme selector To make it easier to get a good looking rofi, we included a theme-selector script and ship rofi with a set of themes. The script allows you to preview themes, and make them the default theme. ![Theme Selector](theme-selector.png) -## Fuzzy parser +### Fuzzy parser + +On many request, the fuzzy matcher has been re-added: + +![fuzzy](fuzzy.png) + +### ASync DMENU + +Rofi can read input data for dmenu asynchronous from displaying. So if you have something that takes a time to produce, +you can see the progress, already start filtering and selecting entries before it finishes. +This can be very useful when searching through large data sets. +In the below screenshot it keeps feeding rofi the content of the directory. Rofi indicates it is still receiving data by +the `loading...` text. + +![async](dmenu-async.png) + +Async mode is not always possible, and will be disabled if not possible. + +## Removals + +We also removed a deprecated option, `-opacity`. Did option did full window opacity, basically it makes the whole window +and text transparent. A very ugly effect. The current argb colors in the theme allow a nice transparency, where only the +background of the window is transparent but not the text (you can still reproduce the old style in the new theme format, +by making all colors transparent). -On many request, the fuzzy matcher has been re-added. ## Detailed Changelog @@ -60,7 +83,7 @@ On many request, the fuzzy matcher has been re-added. - Add Control+G for cancel (#452) - Add padding option to textbox (#449) - Ctrl-click does alternate accept entry. (#429) - - Hide window decoration in normal window mode. + - Hide window decoration in normal window mode. - Click to exit option. (#460) - Fix cursor blinking on moving. (#462) - Remove entry from history if fails to execute (#466) diff --git a/releasenotes/1.3.0/structure.png b/releasenotes/1.3.0/structure.png new file mode 100644 index 00000000..f4461de1 Binary files /dev/null and b/releasenotes/1.3.0/structure.png differ