Ooze 0.4.10

Ooze 0.4.10 "Gambit"

• Ooze Watch playback fixed — the root cause: libmpv refused to start under non-C locales, so the player never existed on real machines. Watch now forces LC_NUMERIC=C before creating mpv. Combined with 0.4.8/0.4.9's software-rendering fallbacks, video playback should now just work.

Install: sudo apt install ./ooze_0.4.10_amd64.deb or run the AppImage. Upgrading from git: ooze update.

What's Changed

• Watch: force LC_NUMERIC=C so libmpv can start under user locales by @devin-ai-integration[bot] in #137
• Release 0.4.10 "Gambit": bump version by @devin-ai-integration[bot] in #138

Full Changelog: v0.4.9...v0.4.10

Ooze 0.4.9

Ooze 0.4.9 "Gambit"

• Ooze Watch playback fix (round two) — Watch now detects when GL video output stalls (black screen while playback runs) and switches itself to software rendering within seconds. It also writes a diagnostic log to ~/.cache/ooze/watch-mpv.log.

Install: sudo apt install ./ooze_0.4.9_amd64.deb or run the AppImage. Upgrading from git: ooze update.

What's Changed

• Watch: detect stalled GL output and switch to software rendering by @devin-ai-integration[bot] in #135
• Release 0.4.9 "Gambit": bump version by @devin-ai-integration[bot] in #136

Full Changelog: v0.4.8...v0.4.9

Ooze 0.4.8

Ooze 0.4.8 "Gambit"

• Ooze Watch playback fix — movies now play on hardware where GL initialization fails: Watch falls back to mpv's software renderer automatically (set OOZE_WATCH_SW=1 to force it for diagnosis).

Install: sudo apt install ./ooze_0.4.8_amd64.deb or run the AppImage. Upgrading from git: ooze update.

What's Changed

• Watch: fall back to mpv software rendering when GL init fails by @devin-ai-integration[bot] in #133
• Release 0.4.8 "Gambit": bump version by @devin-ai-integration[bot] in #134

Full Changelog: v0.4.7...v0.4.8

Ooze 0.4.7

Ooze 0.4.7 "Gambit"

• New app: Ooze Watch — a retro QuickTime-style media player powered by mpv. Brushed-metal deck, LCD timecode, triangle scrubber, thumbwheel volume, and round gel transport buttons that grow toward the central Play. Drag-and-drop and video/audio file associations included.
• Menu fix — short right-click menus no longer show a scrollbar; tall menus still scroll.

Install: sudo apt install ./ooze_0.4.7_amd64.deb or run the AppImage. Upgrading from git: ooze update.

What's Changed

• Stop popover menus showing a scrollbar when content fits by @devin-ai-integration[bot] in #130
• Add Ooze Watch: retro QuickTime-style media player on libmpv by @devin-ai-integration[bot] in #131
• Release 0.4.7 "Gambit": bump version by @devin-ai-integration[bot] in #132

Full Changelog: v0.4.6...v0.4.7

Ooze 0.4.6

Ooze 0.4.6 "Gambit"

Ooze Ear overhaul

• Fixed output/input devices all renaming to "Audio" after clicking a device (partial PipeWire updates no longer clobber good names).
• Picking an output or input device now reliably becomes the default and moves pinned application streams (e.g. Discord) to it.
• Device lists no longer jump around when the default changes; volume sliders no longer fight your drag.
• Full Aqua/OozeKit redesign: pinstripe card rows, Default badges, sectioned Applications tab with compact per-app volume, mute, and routing controls.

New: Mouse settings

• New Mouse app in System Settings: acceleration profile (Default / Flat / Adaptive), pointer speed, and natural scrolling — instant-apply, GNOME-compatible settings that Mutter reads natively. Try the Flat profile if the pointer feels laggy or floaty while dragging.

Upgrade: ooze update or sudo apt install ./ooze_0.4.6_amd64.deb

What's Changed

• Fix popover menu double frame and needless scrollbar by @devin-ai-integration[bot] in #127
• Ooze Ear overhaul (naming, default routing, Aqua UI) + Mouse settings app by @devin-ai-integration[bot] in #128
• Release 0.4.6 "Gambit": bump version by @devin-ai-integration[bot] in #129

Full Changelog: v0.4.5...v0.4.6

Ooze 0.4.5 "Gambit"

Ooze 0.4.5 "Gambit"

Unified, macOS-style context menus.

• One menu look everywhere. The old 3-column icon-tile right-click menu is gone; Spot and Ooze Launch now use the same compact vertical menu as the rest of Ooze, so right-click menus, menu-bar dropdowns, dock, and tray all match.
• No more desktop tint. Opening a global/dock/tray menu no longer dims the whole screen.
• Consistent styling. App menus share one stylesheet and the compositor menu's colors/metrics are centralized as light/dark theme tokens, so menus stay in step and are easy to tweak.

Install

• AppImage (nested on an existing Wayland desktop):

  chmod +x Ooze-v0.4.5-x86_64.AppImage && ./Ooze-v0.4.5-x86_64.AppImage

• Debian native session:

  sudo apt install ./ooze_0.4.5_amd64.deb

• Or ooze update.

What's Changed

• Unify context menus on one macOS-style spec (drop grid menu + desktop tint) by @devin-ai-integration[bot] in #125
• Release 0.4.5 "Gambit": bump version by @devin-ai-integration[bot] in #126

Full Changelog: v0.4.4...v0.4.5

Ooze 0.4.4 "Gambit"

Ooze 0.4.4 "Gambit"

Screen Lock relook.

• Fade to black and Lock screen are now GNOME-style duration dropdowns with a one-click Never — no more typing seconds, and turning the fade/lock off is obvious.
• Both apply instantly (no Apply button).
• The Screen Lock page is redesigned: a clean rows card with clear labels, matching the rest of Ooze.

Install

• ooze update, or
• sudo apt install ./ooze_0.4.4_amd64.deb

What's Changed

• Scenery: Screen Lock redesign — duration dropdowns + proper rows card by @devin-ai-integration[bot] in #123
• Release 0.4.4 "Gambit": bump version by @devin-ai-integration[bot] in #124

Full Changelog: v0.4.3...v0.4.4

Ooze 0.4.3 "Gambit"

Point release on the Gambit line.

Fixed

• Screen Lock settings now stick. Scenery's Screen Lock page is instant-apply (the GNOME/KDE model): "Fade to black after", "Lock screen", and "Lock after" write to settings the moment you change them — no Apply button, no lost edits. Set the fade to 0 seconds to turn fade-to-black off entirely. (#120)

Internal

• Spot's 4,339-line window source was split into focused modules (views, sidebar, file operations, actions) with identical behavior — groundwork for the next Finder features. (#121)

Upgrade with ooze update or sudo apt install ./ooze_0.4.3_amd64.deb.

What's Changed

• Batch A quick wins: release tooling hardening + fix the flaky Spot smoke test by @devin-ai-integration[bot] in #119
• Scenery: instant-apply Screen Lock settings (fixes values not sticking) by @devin-ai-integration[bot] in #120
• Batch B: split Spot's 4,339-line window monolith into focused modules by @devin-ai-integration[bot] in #121
• Release 0.4.3 "Gambit": bump version by @devin-ai-integration[bot] in #122

Full Changelog: v0.4.2...v0.4.3

Ooze 0.4.2 "Gambit"

Ooze 0.4.2 "Gambit"

A point release polishing the Gambit line.

Screensaver → modern idle pipeline

Ooze no longer hosts XScreenSaver modules (the source of pop-out windows, freezes, and flaky multi-monitor spanning). Like GNOME, KDE, and elementary, idle now means: the desktop smoothly fades to black, the lock screen engages per your settings, and display power management turns the screen off. On activity it cross-fades back cleanly. Scenery's old Screensaver page is now a simple Screen Lock page (fade delay, lock toggle, lock delay).

Scrollbars

The candy scrollbar thumb now has a convex (bright-center) gel, removing the dark line that ran down the middle of the trough. Correct in both light and dark.

Install

sudo apt install ./ooze_0.4.2_amd64.deb

or grab the AppImage below. Existing installs: ooze update.

What's Changed

• Replace XScreenSaver modules with a modern idle fade-to-black pipeline by @devin-ai-integration[bot] in #117
• Scrollbar: convex candy thumb to remove the dark center line by @devin-ai-integration[bot] in #116
• Release 0.4.2 "Gambit": bump version by @devin-ai-integration[bot] in #118

Full Changelog: v0.4.1...v0.4.2

Ooze 0.4.1 "Gambit"

Ooze 0.4.1 "Gambit"

A point release in the Gambit line focused on making Spot the Finder-like heart of Ooze — modeled directly on the Mac OS X 10.0 Cheetah Finder — plus a fullscreen fix.

Spot — the Finder pass

• Cheetah toolbar: Back/Forward, a grouped View control (Grid / List / Columns as one recessed segmented toggle with the caption below), and Computer / Home / Applications place tiles — all on one shared glyph line, search on the right.
• Search that works: the toolbar search live-filters the current folder in Grid and List views; leaving the folder resets it. System-wide search will come later as its own surface.
• Three views: icon Grid (labels below, old-school Mac), sortable List (Name / Size / Modified), and rebuilt Miller Columns — snug packing, per-divider resizing with width memory, and arrow-key navigation.
• Finder sidebar: compact FAVORITES and LOCATIONS sections, all visible on launch.
• One bottom strip: clickable breadcrumbs on the left, item count on the right.
• Aqua scrollbars now respect light and dark mode, with candy-gel thumbs.

OozeKit

• New reusable OozeSegmentGroup widget: Aqua segmented toggle available to every Ooze app.

Compositor

• The top panel now hides during fullscreen on the primary monitor, so fullscreen video (YouTube etc.) is no longer covered.

Upgrade with ooze update, or install the .deb / AppImage below.

What's Changed

• Gambit 0.4.1: Spot Finder pass, OozeKit segmented control, fullscreen panel fix by @devin-ai-integration[bot] in #115

Full Changelog: v0.4.0...v0.4.1