CHANGELOG.md

Version: 7.2

• Add cmake rules to build fbpanel
• Get rid of previous python2-bsed build system
• Update documetation
• Extend max amount of buttons 20->40 on launchbar

Version: 7.1

Date: 2020-06-07 20:20:00

• Reimplement 'Xinerama support' patch for 7.0
• Fix some deprecation warnings
• Added plugin to display battery usage in text form
• Added Italian translation
• Added icon drawing support to the pager plugin
• Some other assorted fixes

Version: 7.0

Date: 2015-12-05 08:25:36

• #12 fix menu position for top panel
• #11 new plugin: user menu with gravatar icon
• #8 Fix for issue #5 (make battery plugin work with /sys)
• #6 Rounded corners don't work with widthtype=request
• #5 make battery plugin work with /sys
• #4 update README
• #2 Include option for vertical (y) and horizontal (x) margin

Version: 6.2

• 3367953: 'move to desktop' item in taskbar menu

Version: 6.1

New Features:

• 2977832: meter plugin - base plugin for icons slide show
• 2977833: battery plugin
• 2981332: volume plugin
• 2981313: Enhancements to 'tclock' plugin - calendar and transparency
• multiline taskbar: new config MinTaskHeight was added to set minimal task/row height
• multiline launchbar: row height is MaxIconSize
• scrolling on panel changes desktops
• dclock vertical layout was implemented. It still draws digits horizontaly if there is enough space
• new global config MaxEelemHeight was added to limit plugin elements (eg icons, messages) height
• 993836: add GTK frame to non-transparent chart plugins

Fixed Bugs:

• 2990621: add charging icons to battery plugin
• 2993878: set menu icons size from panel config not from gtk rc
• fixed locale/NLS issues with configure
• chart class struct was made static
• 2979388: configure broken - problems in busybox environments
• fixing variable name check in configure
• 2985792: Menu disappears too quickly
• 2990610: panel with autohide disappears when positioned at (0,0)
• 2990620: fix dclock for vertical orientation
• 2991081: do not autohide panel when menu is open
• 3002021: reduce sensitive area of hidden panel

Version: 6.0

• adding xlogout script
• fixing cpu and net plugins to recover after /proc read errors
• menu: new code to build system menu
• GUI configurator code was reworked
• common API to run external programs was added
• new configuration system - xconf - was introduced
• adding png icons for reboot and shutdown. They may be missing in some icon themes.
• all svg icons were removed
• automatic profile created
• show calendar as default action in dclock
• fixed 'toggle iconfig all' algorithm
• 2863566: Allow seconds in dclock plugin
• 2972256: rebuild code upon makefile changes
• 2965428: fbpanel dissapears when configuring via GUI
• 2958238: 5.6 has bugs in configure script and fails to load plugins
• 2953357: Crashes when staring Opera

Version: 5.8

• moving config dir ~/.config
• automatic new profile creation
• removing app categories default icons
• dclock plugin pops up calendar if no action was set
• net plugin got detailed tooltip and color configs
• cpu plugin got detailed tooltip and color configs
• mem plugin was made
• allocating plugin's private section as part of instance malloc
• drag and drop fix in launchbar
• Fixed "2891558: widthtype=request does not work"

Version: 5.7

• XRandR support (dynamic desktop geometry changes)
• Fixed "2891558: widthtype=request does not work"
• configurator redraws panel on global changes
• fixing 'toggle iconify all' algorithm

Version: 5.6

• genmon plugin - displays command output in a panel
• CFLAGS propagation fix

Version: 5.5

• adding static build option for debugin purposes e.g to use with valgrind
• ability to set CFLAGS from command line was added. make CFLAGS=bla-bla works correctly
• fixing memory leaks in taskbar, menu and icons plugin

Version: 5.4

• fb_image and icon loading code refactoring
• chart: making frame around a chart more distinguishable
• taskbar: enable tooltips in IconsOnly mode
• taskbar: build tooltips from text rather then from markup

Version: 5.3

• when no icon exists in a theme, missing-image icon is substituted. theme-avare
• prevent duplicate entries in menu
• menu plugin uses simple icons, and rebuild entire menu upon theme change, rather then creating many heavy theme-aware icons, and let them update
• cpu, net plugins: linux specific code was put into ifdefs and stub for another case was created
• system menu icon was renamed to logo.png from star.png
• strip moved to separete target and not done automatically after compile
• by default make leaves output as is, to see summaries only run 'make Q=1'
• enbling dependency checking by default
• adding svn ebuild fbpanel-2009.ebuild
• adding tooltips to cpu and net plugins
• BgBox use BG_STYLE by default
• close_profile function was added to group relevant stuff
• autohide was simplified. Now it hides completly and ignoress heightWhenHidden

Version: 5.2

• fixing segfault in menu plugin
• extra spaces in lunchbar plugin were removed
• replacing obsolete GtkTooltips with GtkTooltip
• plugins' install path is set to LIBDIR/fbpanel instead of LIBEXECDIR/fbpanel
• fixing short flash of wrong background on startup

Version: 5.1

• Tooltips can have mark-uped text, like 'Terminal'
• Cpu plugin is fixed and working
• Added general chart plugin (used by cpu and net monitors)
• Code layout was changed, new configure system and new makefiles set was adopted
• fixed segfault in taskbar plugin
• background pixmap drawing speed ups and bugfixes

Version: 4.13

New Features:

• support for "above all" and "below all" layering states. Global section was added string variable Layer = None | Above | Below
• to speed start-up, panel does not have window icon, only configuator window has
• Control-Button3 click launches configureation dialog
• taskbar was changed to propagate Control-Button3 clicks to parent window i.e to panel
• launchbar was changed to propagate Control-Button3 clicks to parent window
• pager was changed to propagate Control-Button3 clicks to parent window
• dclock was changed to propagate Control-Button3 clicks to parent window
• menu was changed to propagate Control-Button3 clicks to parent window
• normal support for round corners. Config file gets new global integer option - RoundCornersRadius
• system tray transparency fix
• clock startup delay was removed
• menu: fixed segfault caused by timeout func that used stale pointer

Version: 4.12

New Features:

• smooth icon theme change without panel reload
• autohide. Config section is part of 'Global' section

    autoHide = false
    heightWhenHidden = 2

• 3 sec delayed menu creation to improve start-up time

Fixed Bugs:

• icons, taskbar do not free all tasks when destroyed

Version: 4.11

Fixed Bugs:

• black background when no bg pixmap and transparency is unset

Version: 4.10

New Features:

• tclock: dclock was renamed to tclock = text clock
• dclock: digital blue clock. adopted from blueclock by Jochen Baier [email protected]
• dclock: custom clock color can be set with 'color' option

  Plugin {
     type = dclock
     config {
         TooltipFmt = %A %x
         Action = xterm &
         color = wheat
     }
  }

• menu: items are sorted by name
• menu: icon size set to 22
• launchbar: drag-n-drop now accepts urls draged from web browsers
• style changes are grouped and only last of them is processed

Fixed Bugs:

• menu: forgoten g_free's were added
• 1723786: linkage problems with --as-needed flag
• 1724852: crash if root bg is not set
• WM_STATE usage is dropped. NET_WM_STATE is used instead. affected plugins are taskbar and pager
• fixed bug where pager used unupdated panel->desknum instead of pager->desknum
• all Cardinal vars were changed to guint from int
• bug in Makefile.common that generated wrong names in *.dep files
• style changes are grouped and only last of them is processed

Version: 4.9

• new menu placement to not cover panel; used in menu and taskbar
• taskbar: icons were added to task's menu (raise, iconify, close)
• access to WM_HINTS is done via XGetWMHints only and not via get_xa_property; in taskbar it fixes failure to see existing icon pixmap
• 1704709: config checks for installed devel packages

Version: 4.8

• help text in configurator was made selectable
• pager shows desktop wallpaper
• expanding tilda (~) in action field in config files
• menu icons size was set to 24 from 22 to avoid scaling
• avoid re-moving panel to same position
• plugins section in configurator dialog suggests to edit config manually
• taskbar vertical layout was fixed
• taskbar 'icons only' mode was optimized
• fbpanel config window has nice "star" icon

Version: 4.7

New Feature

• Build application menu from *.desktop files
• Using themed icons. Change icon theme and see fbpanel updates itself
• default config files were updates to use new functionality

Version: 4.6

New Features

• [ 1295234 ] Detect Window "Urgency".
• Raise window when drag target is over its name in taskbar
• fixing meory leaks from XGetWindowProperty.
• fix urgency code to catch up urgency of new windows
• taskbar: correct position of task's label
• taskbar: remove extra spaces
• taskbar: do not create event box beneath task button
• taskbar: use default expose method in gtk_bar
• taskbar; use default expose method in task button
• taskbar: cleaning up dnd code
• launchbar: visual feedback on button press

Version: 4.5

Fixed bugs

• Makefile.common overwrite/ignore CFLAGS and LDFLAGS env. variables
• rebuild dependancy Makefiles (*.dep) if their prerequisits were changed
• fixing gcc-4.1 compile warnings about signess
• removing tar from make's recursive goals
• fixing NET_WM_STRUT code to work on 64 bit platforms

New features

• porting plugins/taskbar to 64 bit
• porting plugins/icons to 64 bit
• adding LDFLAGS=-Wl,-O1 to Makefile
• adding deskno2 plugin; it shows current desktop name and allow to scroll over available desktops
• applying patch [ 1062173 ] NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW support
• hiding tray when there are no tray icons
• remove extra space around tray
• using new icons from etiquette theme. droping old ones

Version: 4.4

New Feature

• 64-bit awarenes

Version: 4.3

New Feature

• [1208377] raise and iconify windows with mouse wheel
• [1210550] makefile option to compile plugins statically
• makefile help was added. run 'make help' to get it
• deskno gui changes

Fixed Bugs

• deskno can't be staticaly compiled
• typo fixes
• Makefile errors for shared and static plugin build

Version: 4.2

Fixed Bugs

• [1161921] menu image is too small
• [1106944] ERROR used before int declaration breaks build
• [1106946] -isystem needs space?
• [1206383] makefile fails if CFLAGS set on command line
• [1206385] DnD in launchbar fails if url has a space
• fixed typos in error messages

New Feature

• New code for panel's buttons. Affected plugins are wincmd, launchbar and menu
• Depreceted option menu widget was replaced by combo box
• sys tray is packed into shadowed in frame
• pad is inserted betwean tasks in a taskbar
• clock was made flat

Version: 4.1

New Feature

• gui configuration utility
• transparency bug fixes

Version: 4.0

New Feature

• plugins get root events via panel's proxy rather then directly
• added configure option to disable cpu plugin compilation

Version: 3.18

New Feature

• [ 1071997 ] deskno - plugin that displays current workspace number

Fixed Bugs

• [ 1067515 ] Fixed bug with cpu monitor plugin

Version: 3.17

Fixed Bugs

• [ 1063620 ] 3.16 crashes with gaim 1.0.2 sys tray applet

New Feature

• [ 1062524 ] CPU usage monitor

Version: 3.16

New Feature

• taskbar does not change window icons anymore.
• invisible (no-gui) plugin type was introduced
• icons plugin was implemented. it is invisible plugin used to changes window icons with desktop-wide effect.

Version: 3.15

Fixed Bugs

• [ 1061036 ] segfault if tray restarted

Version: 3.14

New Feature

• [ 1010699 ] A space-filler plugin
• [ 1057046 ] transparency support
• all static plugins were converted to dlls
• added -verbose command line option

Fixed Bugs

• dynamic module load fix

Version: 3.13

New Feature

• [ 953451 ] Add include functionality for menu config file.

Fixed Bugs

• [ 1055257 ] crash with nautilus+openbox

Version: 3.12

New Features

• [ 976592 ] Right-click Context menu for the taskbar

Version: 3.11

• fixed [ 940441 ] pager loose track of windows

Version: 3.10

• fix for "996174: dclock's 'WARNING **: Invalid UTF8 string'"
• config file fix

Version: 3.9

• fix bg change in non transparent mode
• enable icon only in taskbar
• ensure all-desktop presence if starting before wm (eg openbox)
• wincmd segfault fix

Version: 3.8

• warnings clean-up
• X11 memory leacher was fixed
• taskbar can be set to show only mapped/iconified and wins from other desktops
• transparency initial support
• gtkbar was ported to gtk2, so fbpanel is compiled with GTK_DISABLE_DEPRECETED
• initial dll support

Version: 3.7

• rounded corners (optional)
• taskbar view fix

Version: 3.6

• taskbar icon size fix
• menu icon size fix
• pager checks for drawable pixmap

Version: 3.5

• Drag-n-Drop for launchbar
• menu plugin
• removed limith for max task size in taskbar

Version: 3.4

• gtk2.2 linkage fix
• strut fix
• launchbar segfault on wrong config fix
• '&' at the end of action var in launchbar config is depreciated

Version: 3.3

• taskbar icon size fix

Version: 3.2

• scroll mouse in pager changes desktops
• packaging and makefiles now are ready for system wide install additionally ./configure was implemented
• systray checks for another tray already running

Version: 3.1

• improving icon quility in taskbar
• system tray (aka notification area) support
• NET_WM_STRUT_PARTIAL and NET_WM_STRUT were implmented
• taskbar update icon image on every icon change

Version: 3.0

• official version bump :-)

Version: 3.0-rc-1

• porting to GTK2+. port is based on phako's patch "[ 678749 ] make it compile and work with gtk2"

Version: 2.2

• support for XEmbed docklets via gtktray utility

Version: 2.1

• tray plugin was written
• documentation update
• web site update

Version: 2.0

• complete engine rewrite
• new plugin API
• pager fixes

Version: 1.4

• bug-fixes for pager plugin

Version: 1.3

• middle-click in taskbar will toggle shaded state of a window
• added image plugin - this is simple plugin that just shows an image
• pager eye-candy fixes
• close_module function update

Version: 1.2

• we've got new module - pager! Yeeaa-Haa!!
• segfault on wrong config file was fixed

Version: 1.1

• parsing engine was rewritten
• modules' static variables were converted to mallocs
• configurable size and postion of a panel
• ability to specify what modules to load
• '~' is accepted in config files

Version: 1.0

• 1.0-rc2 was released as 1.0

Version: 1.0-rc2

• taskbar config file was added an option to switch tooltips on/off
• added tooltips to taskbar (thanks to Joe MacDonald [email protected])

Version: 1.0-rc1

• copyright comments were changed

Version: 1.0-rc0

• added _NET_WM_STRUT support
• panel now is unfocusable. this fixes iconify bug under sawfish
• panel's height is calculated at run-time, instead of fixed 22

Version: 0.11

• improved EWMH/NETWM support
• added openbox support
• added clock customization (thanks to Tooar [email protected])
• README was rewrited
• bug fixes