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v0.5.0

playcanvas/enginev0.5.0Feb 17, 2024by elkowar

AI Summary

Eww 0.5.0 introduces significant enhancements to the Simple Expression language, new widgets like stack and tooltip, and updates to window management commands, alongside support for multiple monitors and various utility functions.

Key Highlights

  • New `eww active-windows` and `list-windows` commands replacing the old `eww windows`
  • New `:namespace` window option for better organization
  • New `stack` widget for vertical stacking
  • New `tooltip` widget for custom widgets
  • Vanilla CSS support

Breaking Changes

  • Remove `eww windows` command, replace with `eww active-windows` and `eww list-windows`

New Features

  • :namespace window option
  • truncate-left property on label widgets
  • gravity property on label widgets
  • Vanilla CSS support
  • jq function for json processing
  • stack widget
  • tooltip widget
  • safe access (?.) in simplexpr
  • trigonometric functions in simplexpr
  • --duration flag to eww open
  • EWW_TIME magic variable
  • Default to building with x11 and wayland support simultaneously

Full Release Notes

# Eww 0.5.0

## BREAKING CHANGES
- Remove `eww windows` command, replace with `eww active-windows` and `eww list-windows`

## Features
- Add `:namespace` window option
- Default to building with x11 and wayland support simultaneously
- Add `truncate-left` property on `label` widgets (By: kawaki-san)
- Add `gravity` property on `label` widgets (By: Elekrisk)
- Add support for safe access (`?.`) in simplexpr (By: oldwomanjosiah)
- Allow floating-point numbers in percentages for window-geometry
- Add support for safe access with index (`?.[n]`) (By: ModProg)
- Made `and`, `or` and `?:` lazily evaluated in simplexpr (By: ModProg)
- Add Vanilla CSS support (By: Ezequiel Ramis)
- Add `jq` function, offering jq-style json processing
- Add `justify` property to the label widget, allowing text justification (By: n3oney)
- Add `EWW_TIME` magic variable (By: Erenoit)
- Add trigonometric functions (`sin`, `cos`, `tan`, `cot`) and degree/radian conversions (`degtorad`, `radtodeg`) (By: end-4)
- Add `substring` function to simplexpr
- Add `--duration` flag to `eww open`
- Add support for referring to monitor with `<primary>`
- Add support for multiple matchers in `monitor` field
- Add `stack` widget (By: vladaviedov)
- Add `unindent` property to the label widget, allowing to disable removal of leading spaces (By: nrv)
- Switch to stable rust toolchain (1.76)
- Add `tooltip` widget, which allows setting a custom tooltip (not only text), to a widget (By: Rayzeq)
- Add `eww shell-completions` command, generating completion scripts for different shells

## Fixes
- Fix wrong values in `EWW_NET`
- Fix logfiles growing indefinitely