Vaela 0.6.0

Vaela 0.6.0 adds Fedora 44 builds alongside Fedora 45, a quicker radial menu, and moves the layout switch out of the way of window buttons.

What's new

• Fedora 44 support. There are now RPMs for both Fedora 44 and Fedora 45 (and Atomic images based on them, such as Bazzite, Kinoite and Silverblue).
• Radial menu after half a second. Hold the right button still for 0.5 s (was 1 s), move onto an item and release.
• No more context-menu flash. The application's context menu no longer pops open and closes again while you hold the button. A quick right-click opens it as usual, when you release.
• Fixed a KWin crash that could happen when that context menu was being closed during a hold.
• Layout switch moved. It is now a short coral handle on the top edge, a little left of the top-right corner, so it no longer covers a maximized window's close button. Hover it to switch between Float, Auto Tiling and Scrollable.

Requirements

• Fedora 44 or 45, x86_64, with current updates: both releases ship KWin 6.7.5, and the RPM requires exactly that version.
• Check your release with rpm -E %fedora, then pick the matching file below.

Install

Fedora Atomic (Bazzite, Kinoite, Silverblue), Fedora 45:

rpm-ostree install ./vaela-desktop-0.6.0-1.fc45.x86_64.rpm

Upgrading from an earlier local Vaela or Vela RPM:

rpm-ostree install --uninstall vaela-desktop ./vaela-desktop-0.6.0-1.fc45.x86_64.rpm

Fedora Workstation:

sudo dnf install ./vaela-desktop-0.6.0-1.fc45.x86_64.rpm

On Fedora 44, use the fc44 file instead. Reboot or log out, then pick Vaela at the login screen. The README explains everything else.

Files

File	For
vaela-desktop-0.6.0-1.fc45.x86_64.rpm	Fedora 45
vaela-desktop-0.6.0-1.fc44.x86_64.rpm	Fedora 44
vaela-desktop-0.6.0-1.fc45.src.rpm, …fc44.src.rpm	Source RPMs, built from this tag
SHA256SUMS	Checksums for all four

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