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@bnfy bnfy released this 09 Aug 01:55
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Blanc 1.1.0

Added

  • The island now senses your cursor. Move toward it and it leans your way, rises slightly, and grows — reaching full strength as you arrive and easing back as you leave. It follows how close you are rather than switching on at a threshold, so there's no edge you can feel, and it stays completely still while another app has focus or the panel is already open.
  • Opening the command bar is now a movement rather than a cut. The panel grows out of the resting island — starting at its exact size and shape, corners rounding out as it expands — and shrinks back into it when you dismiss. The page underneath stays clickable the moment you press Escape; only the picture takes a moment to leave.
  • If you have "reduce motion" turned on in your system settings, both of these are off entirely rather than shortened.

Changed

  • The island has been rebuilt against the Blanc design system. The resting pill drops the group name it was repeating — group identity already reads from the dots and the ⌘L panel — and gains a close button in its action cluster. The address field is a capsule, tab rows drop their domain column so the title has room, and the panel's dismiss control is now a downward chevron that points the way the panel travels.
  • Ad and tracker blocking is now called Blanc Blocker throughout, and its icon is a shield cut by the diagonal from Blanc's own mark. The count sits on the shield's shoulder instead of floating beside it.
  • The Blanc mark is heavier across every icon — the Dock, the taskbar, and the favicon on Blanc's own pages. The previous drawing was too fine to survive being scaled down, and broke up at small sizes.
  • Every keyboard shortcut in the interface renders in the system font. JetBrains Mono draws ⌘, ⇧, ⌥ and ⎋ malformed, which was most visible on the start page.

Fixed

  • Fixed a crash that could quit Blanc when a tab was closed a moment before the application menu rebuilt itself. The rebuild is deliberately delayed to batch up rapid changes, and it could still be handed a tab that had just gone.
  • The island's shadow no longer gets sliced off where the chrome meets the page. The refreshed shadow was deeper than the band had room for, leaving a faint straight line under the island. The find bar had the same problem against its own edge.

Other platforms

All three platforms are built from the same v1.1.0 source tag and published with one SHA-256 manifest.