latte-dock/NEWFEATURES.md

New features/fixes that are found only in master in contrast with the current stable version

Version (master) - 21/06/2019

• new Coloring mechanism. The user can now choose for its Latte docks/panels classic Plasma theme style/Reversed Colors from plasma theme and Smart that takes into account the underlying desktop background

• Coloring mechanism can now use also the windows color schemes in order to paint properly its contents. User can choose from None/Active window/Touching window styles.

• dynamic background can now identify busy backgrounds in order to inform the containment to draw proper contrasted panel background underneath

• Provide Indicators packages that can be installed online (https://store.kde.org/browse/cat/563/)

• Introduce Live Editing for Dock Setings in order for the user to observe runtime its changes

• Introduce Shared Layouts when functioning in Multiple Layouts mode

• reduce calls to functions that are heavy such as View::syncGeometry and Corona::availableScreenGeometry

• Tasks plasmoid supports scrolling when tasks exceed the available space

• Track LastActiveWindow per-screen and at all-screens and provide these information to applets

• keep compatibility with Qt5.9 and Plasma>=5.12

• support new Advanced mode for View settings that fills all screen height and is flexible. You can adjust its scale factors with Meta+Scroll and Ctrl+Scroll at the empty areas of the settings window at per screen level

• Tasks left click and hover event gain their own options in order for the user to choose their behavior

• drag/maximize/restore active window from panel empty areas

• support new painting based on active window color scheme

• add a new Communicator item in order to handle all communications between containment and its applets

• new windows tracking mechanism which is lighter and can be used also from plasma applets

• support Plasma 5.15 new Virtual Desktops interface

• support fill(s) applets for Left,Center,Right alignment properly. That means that the user can now add plasma taskmanagers in Latte panel/docks and use at the same time the previous alignments.

• split animations in Effects page to different settings and provide them to the users to choose what animations the prefer

• improve drag n' drop experience to add applets and launchers

• user option to define which panel/dock will have the highest priority for global shortcuts

• user option to define per panel/dock if unified global shortcuts will be used for applets or not

• user option to scale up/dock the dock settings window through Meta+Wheel at its empty areas

• user option for Background Outline

• identify automatically which unified global shortcuts have defined by the user

• identify automatically which plasma style have been assigned to applets and show them also when the shortcuts badges are requested

• enforce specific ratio for dock settings window in order to look the same between different fonts

• user option to forward Meta event to Latte in order to show application launcher

• add a new Meta badge to identify the application launcher that will be triggered from the Meta event

• fix: dock settings visual inconsistencies between different pages

• fix: Show timer works now with KWin edge behavior