1.7.0: Iggy 2024

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:

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;
   }
}

Clickable button and icons

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

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

File Completion

Timeout actions

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

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

Background image and gradients

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%);
}

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.

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