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@ -3,4 +3,50 @@ The first release candidate version of the upcoming 3.1 version is out, noted
Don't hesitate to report bugs and ask or write enhancements on [awesome BTS](/bugs/).
Changelog:
* awesome-client is now a true REPL: so it now returns things like errors;
* mouse events now support button release;
* awful has been splited in several modules;
* the window stacking has been reworked and handled special windows (dock,
desktop) much better;
* window type is now exported and correctly handled;
* any window can go fullscreen;
* widget can get an event when the mouse enters in it;
* placement (smart, under_mouse, etc) has been move into awful;
* statusbars and titlebars has been merged in a common type: wibox;
* wibox can be floating (i.e. you can now write your own conky-like with
* wiboxes);
* _NET_WM_STRUT_PARTIAL is now supported so panel and dock automagically puts
padding around the screen;
* sticky windows are handled like sticky windows and are not tagged anymore;
* windows that get reparented are now unmanaged (that fixes view of PDF etc in
your browser);
* a new image type has been introduced so you can manipulate image directly in
* awesome and use them;
* a new imagebox widget has been (re)introduced to use image objects;
* a real minimize/iconify state is now available;
* awesome gets a --check to check Lua syntax file; restart is now also checked
for syntax file by default.
* Text can now be spread across multiple lines, using pango ability to wrap
* text;
* New full screen layout;
* awful.clients.swap.bydirection function;
* Images get crop_and_scale() method;
* New module: invaders, a space invader game;
* New module: naughty, notification module (like GNOME's notification-daemon);
* More hooks: "clients" for client list changes, "tags" for tag list changes
and "tagged" for client's tag list changes;
* Wiboxes's widgets can now be composed of arrays of arrays, specifying a
DAG structure, unless
of a simple array. A reference is kept to it so it can be retrieved later.
Any array can be modified with awesome being notified using a proxy table
system.
Taglist and tasklist widgets are gone from core and are now written in Lua,
using the above system.
* awful prompt support underline;
* textbox can specify ellipsize and wrap mode;
* Zaphod mode is working again;
* imagebox supports vertical alignmen.
Have fun and be awesome!