dunst-project/dunst v1.8.0

Dunst v1.8.0

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Lots of exciting and useful features are being added to dunst, all while making
dunst even more configurable and reliable.

For users:

This release re-adds the keyboard shortcuts for those who have been missing
them. Also, support for drop-in files has been implemented. Files placed in
dunstrc.d/*.conf will be read after the main dunstrc. This may be useful for
theming (with pywal or otherwise). In the future we will add example drop-in
files for different default themes and special configuration.

For maintainers:

Not much has been changed for maintainers. Maybe you'll find the drop-in files
useful for distro-specific fixes. Note that only the files in the directory of
the used dunstrc will be read (see dunst(1) for documentation).

Changelog

Added

• Implemented progress_bar_min_width. Before it was an unused setting. (#1006)
• progress_bar_horizontal_alignment for changing the alignment of the progress
  bar. (#1021)
• Support for config drop-ins. You can add as many configuration files as you
  want in dunstrc.d. See the man page dunst(1) for more information. This was
  done with help from @WhitePeter. (#997)
• Thanks to @m-barlett you can place your icons at the center of your
  notifications with icon_position = top.
• icon_position is now a rule (also by @m-barlett).
• hide_text for hiding all text of a notification. This also removes all
  padding that would be present for a notification without text. (also by
  @m-barlett) (#985)
• The previously removed keyboard shortcuts have been added again, but now they
  are in the [global] section of the config. Not everything that was possible
  with the keyboard shortcuts was possible with dunstctl on X11. Mainly
  activating a keyboard shortcut only when notifications are on screen. Thanks
  to @wgmayer0 for testing. (#1033).

Changed

• Improved the man page regarding transitioning from the old geometry.
• The default alignment of the progress bar is now center instead of left.
• Better regex matching for rules. When you set enable_posix_regex. Take a
  look at
  https://en.m.wikibooks.org/wiki/Regular_Expressions/POSIX-Extended_Regular_Expressions
  for how the new regex syntax works. Note that you cannot do inverse matching
  yet, I'm working on that in #1040. (#1017)
• Thanks to @kurogetsusai you can once again use negative offsets to put a
  notification window slightly off-screen if you so like. (#1027)
• As mentioned above, the keyboard shortcuts have been moved to the [global]
  section. Please move your settings there.

Fixed

• Crash when open_url was used without URL's. (#1000)
• Icons sometimes being incorrectly sized with the new icon lookup. (#1003)
• Incorrect defaults mentioned in the documentation. (#1004, #1029 and more)
• Crash when icon could not be read by glib. (#1023)
• Not being able to override anymore raw icons with new_icon (#1009)
• High cpu usage when selecting an action in dmenu or similar. This was caused
  by dunst not going to sleep when waiting for a response. (#898)
• Updated default values documentation (with help from @profpatch) (#1004 and
  more)

New Contributors

• @Profpatsch made their first contribution in #1004
• @m-bartlett made their first contribution in #985
• @kurogetsusai made their first contribution in #1027

Full Changelog: v1.7.3...v1.8.0