noctalia-dev/noctalia v5.0.0-beta.6

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Noctalia v5.0.0-beta.6

✨ New Features

Control Center

• Toggle to hide shortcut labels; icon-only shortcuts scale up and stay centered

Lockscreen

• Optional media and weather on the login box, with toggles in the widget editor
• Password hint always shown on the idle lock screen

Bar & Widgets

• Configurable actions per widget, define your own click and scroll behavior.
• Spacer widgets are non-interactive by default

Plugins

• noctalia.openSettings() and IPC to open a plugin’s settings from script
• Expanded system stats API for plugin authors
• Plugin store: sort plugins and filter by source/category in the searchable store sheet

Settings & Sessions

• Browse and install community templates from a searchable store sheet in Settings
• Browse buttons on all plugin path settings

Clipboard

• Last copied item stays pasteable after the source app exits

Other

• JPEG XL image decode support
• Improved Markdown rendering and table overflow handling
• Panel card borders split out from general panel border setting (shell.panel.borders vs card-specific styling)

🐛 Notable Fixes

• Notification filters apply to internal/plugin toasts (history still external-only)
• Notification filter editor saves Content Regex when using Apply or toggling options
• Polkit auth panel opens during fingerprint-only auth and sizes to fingerprint-only content
• Control Center user-card wallpaper and scrim draw as one rounded shape, no more artifacts on the edge
• Plugin shortcuts reload when reopening Control Center if the script changed while closed
• Double/triple-click in text inputs selects the full word or line
• Lockscreen compact layout reserves status row height; forecast days fit the weather budget; sysmon graphs keep updating on lockscreen widgets
• Desktop media player relayouts when track title or artist changes
• Bar capsule group hover pills and hit targets align with the outer capsule node
• Bar keyboard layout label truncates correctly for multi-codepoint labels
• CalDAV password retained during calendar account discovery
• Clipboard selection data no longer corrupted after move operations
• Theme template application preserves symlinks
• Screenshot region overlay takes pointer input over the widgets editor
• Settings window stays usable while dialog sheets are open; no longer closes when opening widget editors
• Capsule groups stay configurable when a bar lane override is reset