ZoiteChat 2.18.0~pre3
Pre-release
Pre-release
This pre-release keeps pushing ZoiteChat toward the 2.18 stable release, with the biggest work centered on GTK3 theming, UI polish, and platform fixes.
What’s new
- Major GTK3 theming overhaul with improved theme importing, inheritance, rollback safety, and caching.
- Theme settings are now merged into Appearance, with a new Advanced section.
- Added a full color editor and improved mapping for widgets, chat text, userlist colors, and tabs.
- Added
colors.confimport support and improved compatibility with older themes. - Improved chat background image handling and now uses a native file picker.
- Bundled more built-in icons, including OK/Cancel, improved emoji fallback, and refreshed some button/icon styling.
- Embedded the app SVG icon and improved headerbar icon handling.
- Manual addons now persist properly by being copied into the user addon directory.
- Updated
servlist.cto remove dead servers and added a checker script.
Fixes
- Fixed KDE Wayland alert flashing.
- Fixed tray hide/restore labels staying in sync with the real window state.
- Fixed several GTK3 styling issues, including imported CSS cleanup, warning noise, and tab/userlist color problems.
- Removed menubar icons and simplified Away menu behavior.
- Improved Flatpak behavior on KDE and fixed Python/Perl plugin support.
- F9 Segment Fault crash regression fixed
- CTRL+A causing
Note
This is still a pre-release, so a few theming edge cases are still being worked out.
Better, cleaner, and less annoying though. Which is basically the dream.