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Petronia Change History

:: v3.0.0 ::

Overview

Complete rewrite of Petronia. It now supports multiple platforms.

:: v2.2.1 ::

Overview

  • Bug fixes.

Details

  • Bug fixes.
    • Portal chrome now correctly closes the chrome bits on a layout change. (#8)

:: v2.2 ::

Overview

  • Added "resizable" flag for applications.
  • Added "snap" option to portals.
  • detect-monitors command now supports different output formats.
  • Added user extensions directory support.
  • Changed how you specify the layout argument at the command line.
  • Documentation improvements.
  • Bug fixes.

Details

  • Added "resizable" flag for applications.
    • Applications can set a "resizable" flag (defaults to on), to specify whether the matching window should be resized to fit into the portal. Before, the matching window would have to be excluded from tiling control in order to not be resized.
    • Updated "no_border_config" and "border_config" to use the flag.
  • Added "snap" option to portals.
    • Windows that do not fully fit within a portal are now "snapped" into a relative position within the portal. By default (and the original behavior), the window snaps to the top-left corner of a portal. Now it can be positioned relative to any corner or side.
    • Updated "no_border_config" and "border_config" to use the flag.
  • detect-monitors command now supports different output formats.
    • Run with "-f (format)" to output in a different format.
    • Supported formats are: yaml, json, and py.
    • Format now defaults to yaml instead of python.
  • Added user extensions directory support.
    • You can either use the %PETRONIA_USER_DIR% environment variable, or the -e command-line argument, to specify where Petronia should look for user extensions. This allows for adding in components to your configuration.
  • Changed how you specify the layout argument at the command line.
    • It used to be that the layout name was the optional second argument. Now, you must specify it with the -l or --layout argument.
    • The check-layout command is unchanged.
    • Command-line parsing for cmd and main now use argparse to grant the ability to have more complex arguments. Unfortunately, this lead to the backwards incompatibility with the layout name.
  • Documentation improvements.
    • Cleaning up to better reflect the current version.
  • Bug fixes.
    • Fix portal chrome from staying on top of overlay windows.
    • Improved portal chrome to not have the annoying white border in Windows 8. (#6)
    • Portal chrome windows no longer shows up on the task bar.
    • Correctly associated portals to their aliases. This information wasn't being passed to the portal factory before.
    • Hide the "KeyboardInterrupt" exception from users when running the detect-keys command, because this is an expected action.

:: v2.1 ::

Overview

  • render_active_portal is finally gone.
  • Updated documentation to reference the yaml files.
  • Added component configuration in dictionary-based configuration files.
  • Added portal_chrome component.
  • Bug fixes.

Details

  • render_active_portal is finally gone.
    • It's been removed. You can't use it anymore. Use the portal_chrome instead.
  • Updated documentation to reference the yaml files.
    • Documentation has been rearranged to make the yaml config file format front and center.
    • Included more example configurations.
  • Added component configuration in dictionary-based configuration files.
    • Dictionary-based config files (json, yaml) can now specify the configuration and setup for components.
    • Started the path for allowing external components.
  • Added portal_chrome component.
    • Shows the active and inactive portals.
  • Bug fixes.
    • So many bugs. Actually, they just weren't tracked well.

:: v2.0 ::

Overview

  • Configuration now allowed as yaml and json files!
  • Added new user command: focus-last-flashing-window
  • Switched from parse_simple_mode to parse_exclusive_mode
  • Chrome configuration backwards-incompatible changes
  • Windows not owned by tiling management can now receive commands.
  • Bug Fixes

Details

  • Configuration now allowed as yaml and json files!
    • You can write your configuration files as yaml or json files now.
    • Updated example to include a yaml and json version.
  • Added new user command: focus-last-flashing-window
    • You can now bind a key that will raise the most recently "flashing" window to the top, and give it focus.
  • Switched from parse_simple_mode to parse_exclusive_mode
    • Exclusive mode more explicitly describes the purpose of the mode.
  • Chrome configuration backwards-incompatible changes
    • The "chrome" configuration was mostly placeholders for future functionality. Now that more of the design is in place, this is now a holder for other components to reference. Configurations don't use it anymore.
    • Removed 'color' property from the chrome border.
    • Borders are set by the classes that manage portal borders themselves.
    • Moved the decoration of windows into the application settings, to allow for more flexibility on a per-application basis.
    • Application setup now has default_has_border and default_has_title, replacing the original default_is_managed_chrome
  • Windows not owned by tiling management can now receive commands.
    • Added ability to send some user commands to windows not in the tiling management.
  • Bug fixes
    • Portals now correctly remove listeners for closed windows.

:: v1.2 ::

Overview

  • Chrome config no longer uses border 'width' attribute.
  • Bug fixes

Details

  • Chrome config no longer uses border 'width' attribute.
    • The 'width' attribute on the Chrome configuration borders was always intended as a placeholder. Now, it's not needed, and has been removed.
  • Bug fixes
    • When a window is destroyed, the event is now passed to all the components (#4)
    • render_active_portal now draws the windows a bit more accurately, without rendering refresh glitches. It's still not good.
    • Changing window focus in the current portal to previous (switch-top-window previous) now correctly moves to the previous window.
    • Fixed issues around finding windows that aren't owned by the user. Now, all visible windows should be managed that are only owned by the current window. This also fixes problems with adding certain applications that were incorrectly recognized as not owned.

:: v1.1 ::

Overview

  • Move window improvements.
  • Swap window within the same portal.
  • Component configuration documentation.
  • Added "flashing" capabilities to the render_active_portal plugin.

Details

  • Move window improvements.
    • When you move a window between portals, it now has a better chance of remaining on top of the other windows after the move. There's still some cases where it doesn't work, though. (#1)
  • Swap window within the same portal.
    • You can now swap between focused windows within the same portal. Use the ["switch-top-window", "previous"] and ["switch-top-window", "next"] commands.
  • Added documentation for the Component configuration.
    • Included note about the render_active_portal.
    • render_active_portal now available from the executable distribution.
  • Added "flashing" capabilities to the render_active_portal plugin.
    • When a window indicates that it should "flash", the render_active_portal plugin will flash the border color of the portal that contains the flashing window.
  • General documentation improvements.

:: v1.0 ::

Overview

  • Initial release.

Details

  • Initial public release.