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Update Changelog and release notes with drawing speedups and other fixes.

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Dave Davenport 2016-11-29 17:39:09 +01:00
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@ -9,6 +9,8 @@ v1.3.0: Dan vs. Greg: The never ending story. (unreleased)
- Dynamically sizing window with content.
- When placed at bottom of screen re-order screen to have entry at bottom.
Improvements
- Improve resizing of window, don't make X whipe background.
- Improve close window (shift-delete) action, by sending NET_WM_CLOSE instead of destroying window.
- Create cache and run directory on startup. (#497)
- Fix uneeded redraws on cursor blinking. (#491)
- Improve time till grabbing keyboard. (#494)

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Async mode is not always possible, and will be disabled if not possible.
### Drawing improvements
In this release rofi is more efficient in drawing its content to the X11 window. The basic redraw on expose has been
speedup by a factor 1000. This was obtained by using a server side copy of the internal surface, instead of painting it
with cairo each time. Especially for large (4k and higher) screens, in fullscreen mode, this reduces redrawing from +-
180ms to 0.1 ms. A second improvement was made by configuring X11 not repaint the window background when resized, this
caused some flickering (it was painted black before being drawn). It now keeps the old content and tells rofi to
repaint. This causes trailing, but overall looks nicer.
## Removals
We also removed a deprecated option, `-opacity`. Did option did full window opacity, basically it makes the whole window
@ -71,8 +80,10 @@ by making all colors transparent).
### Improvements
- Improve resizing of window, don't make X whipe background.
- Improve close window (shift-delete) action, by sending NET_WM_CLOSE instead of destroying window.
- Create cache and run directory on startup. (#497)
- Fix uneeded redraws on cursor blinking. (#491)
- Fix unneeded redraws on cursor blinking. (#491)
- Improve time till grabbing keyboard. (#494)
- Better error message when failing to parse keybindings, also continue parsing on error.
- Fix problem with custom layouts (#485)