noctalia-dev/noctalia v5.0.0-beta.5

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Noctalia v5.0.0-beta.5

✨ New Features

Bar & Widgets

• Per-widget custom gesture actions (clicks, scrolls, and related bindings) with defaults for built-in widgets; plugins can declare their own
• Settings: foldable Actions group per widget for those bindings
• Dead-zone input routes into the same gesture actions as the widget
• Opt-in: one scroll action per wheel notch / flick for cycling verbs (volume, workspaces, and similar)

Lockscreen

• Compact and Regular login box layouts

Desktop Widgets

• Lasso select and group transforms in the desktop widgets editor

Plugins & Panels

• Install the newest plugin revision the host’s plugin API supports
• capture_keys, system stats / per-core CPU for plugins, and closures as UI tree callbacks
• Persistent plugin panels outside the active-panel slot, plus keyboard_focus on panel entries

Dock & Wallpaper

• Dock: optional Wayland overlay layer
• Wallpaper panel: sort by random (stable across refreshes)

Calendar & Screen Time

• Optional ISO week numbers on the calendar grid
• Screen time: open hourly day detail from the multi-day chart

IPC

• Workspace, keyboard layout, network, and directional power verbs
• State-query commands marked unbindable so action pickers skip them

🐛 Notable Fixes

• Taskbar: hide anonymous XWayland menu popups (no app id and no title); keep compositor focus / workspace matching reliable
• Hyprland: stop workspace active/occupied/urgent flags from clearing on unchanged snapshots
• Panels: honor panel_anchor_bar over the opening source bar; center panels when the focused output has no bar
• Workspaces: fix hover-animation crash on widget teardown / bar reload
• Dialogs: stop auto-dismissing popups on outside click
• Launcher: faster open/search, honor locale in the calculator, default /calc, invalidate stale icon-cache misses
• Theme CLI: apply -c custom colors before -r template render
• Polkit: harden auth and keep chained prompts intact
• Sysmon: skip GPU polling when nothing is showing GPU stats
• Input: reset scroll detent carry after a gesture pause; one action per wheel notch for cycling verbs

🔧 Build

• Packaging: document the project maintenance policy for packagers