CHANGELOG.md

0.7.0 (ongoing):

• split out target/open into target/open and target/open_tag

• new path: display/displays/current/format for controlling output format selection (rgb565, 888, deep, hdr, ...)

• target/video/colors: add option to switch/control client-preferred color palette for clients that support the feature

• drag-resize in floating mode now has an 'silent' global option for using server-side selection, and a 'per-type' enable with tui default

• display scanout and refresh preferences can be set (globally) through: global/display/variable_refresh and global/displays/.../direct_scanout

• added a tile-bsp mode that adds new windows based on the highest-level tile with less than 2 children (/global/workspace/layout/tile_bsp)

• statusbar / titlebar - added vertical layout

• new path: global/input/keyboard/maps/platform added for platform translation controls (rmvo, ...)

• new path: display/displays/current/orientation/flip_y,rotate_180

• touch - added an empty (disable) classifier, exposed more profile values dynamically, option to hook profile picking on unknown device.

• new tool - text to speech

• flair - add background effect to HUD (darken, blur+vignette)

• compact-mode for statusbar and titlebar (global/settings/titlebar,statusbar/compact)

minor:

• default HUD sort order split into two, one for browse/ and one for other paths

• dropped 'simple' display mode in favor of the direct scanout control

• added dracula/gruvbox/gruvbox-light colorschemes

• color picking widget not shows tui- colorschemes

• activation / type fixes for universal open/save

• value-input cancel-out crash fixed

• terminal hard coded colorscheme deprecated in favor of dynamic switching (/global/settings/terminal/colorscheme)

• added font- size stepping control (/target/visual/font/step_size)

• uiprim/bar - label dominant-axis positioning fixed

• uiprim/lbar - helper text padding and background size increased

• clipboard/url paste scripting error fixed

• swapping from fullscreen workspace to a non fullscreen one and back should no longer lose the surface canvas

• resource browser preview on-select triggers for mouse motion as well

• added padding rules to hud widget borders, popups and other elements

• navigation menu for binding timer or input now shows helper status text (widget/helper)

• display helper widget now shows buffer mapping format (LDR, SDR, HDR)

• client subwindows can now have requests for parent-relative position honored

0.6.0 - 0.6.1

• universal open/save: Clients that announce support for global open/save via bchunk-hints now trigger the file browser accordingly.

• display/share and target/share reworked: Display/region/ based sharing removed (except for snapshot/monitor) in favoring of a /target/share menu that consolidate all such options.

• uiprim/sbar: statusbar custom button controls added, it is now possible to define alt-action (such as custom popup spawn) as well as drag-action.

• workspace buttons now popup layout mode selector on altclick, and migrate window on drag-drop

• uiprim/tbar: titlebar merge-to-status bar mode on select (if hidden) titlebar rclick now mappable (default, popup /target)

• uiprim/popup: added basic popup component

• target-launch: When activating global/target/launch to start a trusted application you can also supply an application tag. This helps automation as you can now specify that tag as part of /windows/by-tag etc. when there are no UUIDs or other values to take advantage of.

• input/rotary added: This tool implements basic gestures, commands and mapping for rotary devices like the 'Surface Dial' and 'Griffin PowerMate'.

• tools/extbtn added: Registers into global/settings/statusbar and adds option for external clients to connect and attach custom buttons. This deprecates the statusbar IPC in favor of solving this externally.

• tools/autostart added: This tool allows a series of paths to be automatically run on startup.

• tools/profile_picker added: This tool is the first step towards better initial configuration. It triggers on startup and installs UI schemas for default inputs, colors and security profiles.

• triggers: added per-window option to bind multiple custom triggers on select, deselect and destroy

• layout/tile: allow titlebar drag/drop as a mouse- triggered way to swap, m1 and m2 control swap, join as child or join as sibling. allow better gap controls.

• layout/htab: added side column based tabbed layout mode

• menu/hud: Cipharius added support for fuzzy-string matching to the HUD, switch it on by entering % and pick fuzzy_relevance as the sort method.

• menu/devmaps: Custom menus/aliasmaps can now be built. These register in the menu root (/menus) and are intended for shortcut button grids, popup menus, radial menus and so on.

• workspaces assignment: It is now possible to control which workspace new windows currently spawn at, see the /global/settings/workspaces/spawn path.

• visual: Add soft shadow controls to windows, ui elements and statusbar

• input/touch improvements: New gestures, 'tap', 'doubletap', 'idle_return', 'idle_enter'. improved relative mouse emulation to better handle click-select refactored some of the code to more easilly accomodate custom classifiers. Some device profile based values can now be changed through the path /global/input/touch. A classifier that forwards as basic touch events has been added.

• first round of (non-text) icon management (caching, shared sets etc.) added

• displays/current/zoom added: Bind to keyboard for zooming in/out around the mouse cursor position

• new tool: streamdeck This allows external mini displays (touchbars etc.) to be hooked up and act as restricted input devices as well as custom widget mappings

• new tool: todo This tool allows for simple tracking of todo tasks that integrate with the notification system, status bars and so on.

• new tool: tracing This tool mixes the monitoring wm inspection parts of durden with the tracing facility in arcan to produce chrome://tracing friendly json logs.

Minor / Fixes:

• global/settings/terminal/tpack added for temporarily forcing server-side text on for all new terminal windows (feature still experimental)

• display resolution picker should now bias towards the highest refresh rate when there are multiple to chose from at the desired resolution

• added controls to insert subwindows as new windows or relative to their parents, (global/settings/workspaces/tiled/subwindow=normal,child)

• removed the 'alternate' window feature (used with wayland toplevels and terminal groups), the feature turned out way to complex and demanding in the way it was implemented.

• float/minimize prefers client provided icon or canvas contents as statusbar icon rather than a longer text representation

• added 'invert light' shader that retains most of hue while inverting dark/light colors

• handover subsegment allocation now routes correctly

• silent shutdown retains known window position and states, should recover properly when started back up.

• region selection closure management reworked

• more subsystems expose logging over the monitor ipc

• /global/displays/color can be used to change the default clear color when there is no wallpaper. A single color background can also be generated through /global/workspace/background.

• statusbar ws- button coloring now defaults to dynamic from hc palette

• /windows/name added for individual explicit window addressing

• started refactoring and splitting uiprim.lua

• started refactoring and splitting tiler.lua

• allow disabling meta-guard (rebinding) via /input/keyboard/meta_guard

• gconf.lua split up into config.lua (keys) and gconf.lua (mgmt code)

• /bindtarget=/some/path sets a 'consume on use' path that allows interactive menu paths like key and button bindings to be automated

• target/window/move_fx/fy added for display- size relative move

• firstrun.lua added to setup custom defaults on first run/config reset

• added color picker widget

• dropped the vr-viewer tool in favor of an upcoming way of allowing lwa clients that use the vr-subsystem so that safespaces can be used nested at minimal cost.

• display backlight controls changed into a submenu, added options for stepping

• generalized/cleaned up the external-listener implementation. fixing reliability and rate-limit misses.

• multiple changes to display hotplug behavior / detection, fallback when edid fail after power cycle

• added visual indicators to window drag-reorder in tiling mode

• added dynamic statusbar buttons to control / reach other displays

• HC-palette color changes (global/settings/visual/colors/palette) persist

• input devices can be forgotten (global/input/all-devices/dev/forget=yes

• better error reporting for init-script errors

• number of fixes to drag-resize

0.5.0

• tools/advfloat: window-to-background will now receive input when no window is selected.

• tools/advfloat: autolayout now recurses when one pass didn't position all windows autolayout also got a hide/reveal mode

tools/vrviewer added 'vrviewer', an integrated 3D/VR tool that acts as a 3D desktop-within-the-desktop.

• distr/durden: launcher- script for reasonable defaults for linux/BSDs with arcan on egl-dri (native) platform.

• widgets/input: new widget (target/input activated) that presents client provided input labels as clickable options

• widgets/notification: new widget (activated on any path) that flushes the currently queued set of notifications on HUD activation

• widgets/icon: new widget (for UI button to emoji- unicode-subset mapping)

• custom-crop: support cropping [t l d r] px from the canvas area

• impostors: crop t- px and bind to a toggle-able titlebar

• browser: add controls for preview-launch delay, and allow video previews

• decorations: added controls to hide dynamic workspace buttons added per-window controls to override titlebar pattern added per-window controls to modify titlebar buttons added paths for border/titlebar primary colors

• cursortagging: added (target/window/cursortag) as an option, experimental

• mass-actions: the root node /windows can now be used to address collections of windows based on some property, such as name or type

Breaking:

• statusbar visual config area changed to [px] from % point and order changed to [t l r d] to match other similar functions

• target titlebar controls moved to its own group

  • border settings moved to its own group (/global/settings/border)

• control channel (ipc pipes) have switched to using a domain socket for both input and output

• entire menu/browser system refactored to have a more shared codebase, this moves all paths to be explicit /global/path/to /target/path/to /browse/shared/

• multiple menu functions moved around and regrouped, all toggle options have been merged into the YES/NO paths that have been extended with YES/NO/FLIP

• mouse devices now get joined into one abstract label by default for binding, to revert back to the devid_subid setup, you can use /global/input/mouse/coalesce=false

Minor / Fixes:

• activate GPU rescan on hotplug event

• reworked multi-display state management / restoration / discovery

• mouse should now work better with the HUD menu, particularly mouse-wheel, navigation button clicks and right-click to exit.

• regression in hotplugging causing nil table member dereference on remove event with active listeners

• input focus can be changed by explicit display path / name

• reworked most sizing / positioning code to be less strict on client- driven resizing

• per- target default decoration color overrides

  • split border controls into float and other modes

• expose target menu binding in recovery binding handler

• expose input caret manipulation as part of basic bindings

• system shutdown gets a silent option that doesn't tell clients to shut down, but rather to reconnect or migrate

• add menu options to join 'n' windows to the left or right in tile mode as children of the selected window

• added global/config/commit to make sure the current setings get saved immediately

  • mouse/keyboard scripts are now switched to use the distribution default from arcan

• more terminal controls exposed: blinkrate, cursor style

• added controls for border color

• display preset map now respects density and backlight

• launch targets with the tag 'autorun' will be launched on startup

• display orientation options are now explicit +- 90

  • added target/video/advanced/override_size for testing client behavior at explicit sizes (combine with _block_resize)

0.4.0

• Display region sharing now supports force-pushing into clients that can handle input segments.

• target/video/advance/migrate - send a migrate request to a client, which may prompt a client to jump to a different connection point or display server instance.

• shader subsystem - added a multi-pass effect format along with some initial effects (gaussian blur, CRT-lottes).

• tools/advfloat - extended float layout mode capabilities: spawn control (draw2spawn) hide-to-statusbar cursor-action-region (see tools/advfloat/cregion.lua for definition) automatic relayouter grid-cell align

• tools/overview - added a HUD- like workspace switcher

• tools/flair - added a visual effects layers and some initial effects, e.g. clothy windows, the natural successor to wobbly windows.

• terminal-group spawn-mode added, allows a connection primitive to be generated per terminal and clients which connect via this group share the same logical window tree slot.

• Tui/terminal clients are now allowed to spawn additional tui subsegments. This match the new support in afsrv_terminal that allows the window to be cloned into a copy-window.

• File browser now expose wild-card matching (asterisk), Lua patterns (%%) and sort-order modification (typing % lists options).

• retain some window and workspace properties across script errors crashes and resets

• menu navigation can now shows a helper description of the currently selected item

• mode-sensitive titlebar icons - window titlebar icons can now be set to be activated only in certain modes

Minor:

• Destroying a window in fullscreen mode now returns the workspace to the last known mode instead of forcing to tile.

• Double-tap input-lock automatically unlocks if the locked window is closed

• Double-tap input-lock without a selected windows is now a no-op

• Float mode border drag sizing, cursorhint and positioning fixes

• Float mode drag now respects statusbar- imposed boundaries

• Float mode canvas-drag/resize option for self-decorated clients

• improved (less broken) handling for wayland popups and subsurfaces

• Step-resize keybinding now aligns to window- cell size (terminals)

• statusbar can now be sized/padded to percentage of display output (config/statusbar/borderpad)

• statusbar specific configuration moved to (config/statusbar) from (config/visual/bars/...)

• statusbar number prefix on known workspaces and statusbar mode button can now be toggled on/off

• add support for window canvas overlays, intended for wayland- toplevel windows and senseye translators

0.3.0

• Now requires arcan >= 0.5.3.

• Documentation Moved to a separate webpage, http://durden.arcan-fe.com

• Client- defined mouse-cursor support.

• Window slicing: target/window/slice allows mouse-selected subregion to (active->input forward or passive) bind a subregion of one window to a new window.

• External clipboard manager support: external clients can be permitted to read and/or inject entries unto the clipboard. See global/config/system/clipboard-bridge.

• Gamma controls: external clients can be permitted to set custom color/ and gamma/ lookup tables, either per window or globally. See target/video/advanced/color-gamma synch and global/config/system/gamma-bridge.

• Filesystem-like IPC: the iopipes IPC path has been extended to allow ls, read, write and exec like navigation of the menu subsystem. This can be bound to a FUSE-wrapper to fully control durden from a terminal.

• LED devices: added support for profile driven LED device control see devmaps/led/README.md or global/config/led

• Input multicast : added support for input multicast groups. Enable per window via target/input/multicast. Keyboard input received will be forwarded to all children.

• Statusbar: can now be set to 'HUD' mode, where it is only visible on the global/ or target/ menu HUDs. (config/visual/bars/statusbar(HUD)/...)

• Tools/Autolayout improvements: can now disable titlebars on side-columns, and allow a different shader on side-columns (see global/config/tools/autolayouting)

• Tools/Overlay: [new], can now take the contents of a window and add to a vertical column stack at left or right edge as scaled-down previews.

• Target/Video/Advanced: allow per-window output density overrides.

• Atypes/wayland/x11: new scaling mode, 'client' to allow the client to know about the max dimensions, but let it chose its own actual size within those constraints.

• Window- relayout/resize animations for float/tile: disable/enable via config/visual/window animation speed

• Dynamically switchable visual/action schemes (devmaps/schemes/README.md) that can be used to set a global, per-display, per workspace or per window scheme of fonts and other configuration presets.

Minor:

• (arcan > 0.5.2) allow GPU- authentication controls
• Split mouse cursors into sets.
• more consistent font/font-size switching when migrating across displays
• default-off display profiles for vive/psvr
• per window font override controls
• defer window attachment to reduce resize operations
• menu options for appl- switching (global/system/reset/...)
• hidden bind path for suspend-state toggle (target/state/...)
• menu path to reset workspace background (global/workspace/...)
• menu path for global/workspace/switch/last
• option to force bitmap font path for terminal
• a shader for luma (monochrome) - only mode
• atype- profile for wayland clients
• option to disable/block mouse (global/input/mouse/block)
• target menu path for set-x, set-y in float mode
• mouse button debounce timer support (global/inpput/mouse/debounce)
• expose backlight controls per display (global/display/displays/...)
• path for setting workspace background to a solid color
• Tools/pulldown: can now set a shadow/colored border

0.2.0 - New features

• Tool: Added autolayouter

• Tool: Added 3d-modelviewer, can remap contents of other windows unto a 3d-model.

• Feature: OCR to Clipboard, access through global/display/region Requires tesseract- support in arcan encode frameserver

• Cheatsheet Widget: Added path activation

• Security/Safety: Added connection rate limiting

• Performance: Added dedicated fullscreen mode

0.1.0 - Initial Release