noctalia-dev/noctalia v5.0.0-beta.7

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Noctalia v5.0.0-beta.7

✨ New Features

Bar & Widgets

• Screenshot: remember last capture region (settings toggle), plus Ctrl+C / Ctrl+S shortcuts while selecting area
• Audio visualizer: max width raised to 2048
• Weather: add tooltip
• Workspaces: toggle to disable hover color changes
• System monitor: blend gauge colors in HSV space

Plugins

• Runtime-scoped sound API for plugins
• Timezone support in formatTime (API 19); shell time/date formats exposed to scripts
• Service enable/exit reasons; frame ticks delivered to plugin panels

Lockscreen & Sessions

• Reintroduce unlock hint
• Lock before sleep via logind delay inhibit (prevent premature lock in the same way as sway/hypridle does)

Clipboard

• Delete keybind action
• IPC: append text (copy) and read current text (paste)

Notifications / OSD

• Track fcitx input method changes in the OSD
• Transient OSD controls over IPC

Bluetooth & Network

• Bluetooth battery percent from UPower when available
• Offline-mode banners on network-dependent settings pages

Greeter Sync

• Use sync.toml as the sync target, greeter.toml is independent

Other

• Floating panel wayland layer is configurable (pop vs overlay)
• Korean added to supported languages (translation in progress)
• Per-item tooltips in virtual grids (settings community template grid and similar)

🐛 Notable Fixes

• Notifications: retention cleanup no longer empties history entries fixes “Untitled notification”
• Input: caret placement and scroll stay consistent when focusing/blurring long fields
• Clipboard: move a selection to the top when it is copied again
• Taskbar: keep clickable areas when window titles refresh
• Wayland: keep toplevels that never get output_enter in output-scoped lists
• Lockscreen / tray / dock / bar auto-hide and launcher D-Bus activation polish
• Settings: keep the widget editor centered during window animations; clear default-equivalent keybind overrides; expose step args for default widget actions; async plugin-store thumbnails
• Theme: stronger contrast for wallpaper palettes, light-mode shadows, OKLCH contrast rework
• Audio: clearer grouped device menus; battery state glyph always drawn outside the graphic
• Hardware info: prefer amdgpu.ids for AMD GPU names
• Calendar: replace the custom iCalendar parser with libical
• Tooltip text measured through the label layout engine
• Control Center / session panel spacing and card margin consistency; trailing shortcuts can span the full grid width; compact sidebar tab tooltips
• Control Center: separate saved and available Wi-Fi networks

🔧 Build

• Replace vendored dr_wav with system libsndfile (now support most classic audio format)
• Nix: apply autoAddDriverRunpath unconditionally