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author | Jose Antonio Ortega Ruiz <jao@gnu.org> | 2012-06-04 02:43:35 +0200 |
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committer | Jose Antonio Ortega Ruiz <jao@gnu.org> | 2012-06-04 02:54:49 +0200 |
commit | dd305fbe5303f7fd306bbc0828996df1ac55c9b4 (patch) | |
tree | a7c1dbebbfa6e6c2a46570d5737e76bd00933717 /NEWS | |
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News/Readme updates (including making them github-friendlier)0.15
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@@ -1,185 +0,0 @@ -% xmobar - Release notes - -## Version 0.15 - -_Incompatible changes_ - - - `Batt` monitor no longer uses `-c` to specify the charge file: it - should figure things out by itself (cf. [issue 69]). - -_New features_ - - - New command line option, `-C`, that allows *adding* commands to - those specified in the configuration file (Ben Boeckel). - - Dependency on GHC's threaded runtime has been eliminated. - - New MPRIS (versions 1 and 2) monitor, by Artem Tarasov. - - New monitor option `-d` to specify the number of decimal places to - display for float numbers. Defaults to 0. See [issue 58]. - -_Bug fixes_ - - - Stricter build dependencies versioning in cabal file. - - [issue 56]: vertical alignment of text improved. - - [issue 64]: display of `watts` in `Batt` monitor fixed. - - [issue 69]: miscellaneous battery reporting issues. - - [issue 67]: compilation in DragonFly. - - DiskIO works also when device path in mtab are symbolic links - to the real device file. - - Wireless monitor honours padding settings for ESSID names. - - CoreTemp monitor fixed for newer kernels ([github #38]). - -[issue 56]: http://code.google.com/p/xmobar/issues/detail?id=56 -[issue 58]: http://code.google.com/p/xmobar/issues/detail?id=58 -[issue 64]: http://code.google.com/p/xmobar/issues/detail?id=64 -[issue 67]: http://code.google.com/p/xmobar/issues/detail?id=67 -[issue 69]: http://code.google.com/p/xmobar/issues/detail?id=69 -[github #38]: https://github.com/jaor/xmobar/issues/38 - -## Version 0.14 (Dec 10, 2011) - -_New features_ - - - New brightness monitor, courtesy of Martin Perner. - - New DateZone plugin, for configurable timezone and localized - datetimes, also by Martin. - - New keyboard layout monitor (Kbd). Yes, by Martin. - - Rewrite of the event handling ([issue 53], [issue 57]), you - guessed it. - - Cpu monitor now also reports `iowait` field ([issue 55]). - - Battery monitor: the full charge file is now settable in the - monitor arguments (olpc systems use `charge_full_design`; see - [issue 62]). - -_Bug fixes_ - - - [issue 45]: Fix for crashes with AC status changes in battery monitor. - - [issue 48]: The <quality> field of Wireless behaves like a percentage. - - [issue 50]/[issue 61]: `MPD` monitor now works with libmpd 0.6. - - [issue 60]: Fixes for crashes on power resume for battery monitor. - - Template sections without fields are now correctly displayed. - - Catch errors when reading battery status (Ben Boeckel). - - Compilation issues with ghc 7.x (Sergei Trofimovich). - - Fixes for CoreTemp monitor in new kernels (Norbert Zeh). - - Fix for pulseaudio problems in volume monitor (Martin Perner). - - Fix for parsing errors when a `Run` entry ended in an array - (Martin). - - Fixed compilation in OpenBSD (Ivo van der Sangen). - -[issue 45]: http://code.google.com/p/xmobar/issues/detail?id=45 -[issue 48]: http://code.google.com/p/xmobar/issues/detail?id=48 -[issue 50]: http://code.google.com/p/xmobar/issues/detail?id=50 -[issue 53]: http://code.google.com/p/xmobar/issues/detail?id=53 -[issue 55]: http://code.google.com/p/xmobar/issues/detail?id=55 -[issue 57]: http://code.google.com/p/xmobar/issues/detail?id=57 -[issue 60]: http://code.google.com/p/xmobar/issues/detail?id=60 -[issue 61]: http://code.google.com/p/xmobar/issues/detail?id=61 -[issue 62]: http://code.google.com/p/xmobar/issues/detail?id=62 - -## Version 0.13 (March 28, 2011) - -_New features_ - - - New `Volume` monitor displaying ALSA soundcards information, by - Thomas Tuegel. - - New `ThermalZone` plugin substituting `Thermal` and using linux's - *sysfs* interface (you need this one if you're using a kernel - version equal to or above 2.6.37). See [issue 44]. - - xmobar app new has WM_CLASS, WM_NAME and _NET_WM_PID xprops - ([issue 38]). - -_Incompatible changes_ - - - In the process of solving [issue 14], we've broken those - configurations that rely on including alignment separators in the - input fed to `StdinReader`. - - The MPD plugin does not accept host and port options anymore: use - the environment variables MPD_HOST and MPD_PORT instead. - - The `Mail` plugin now takes a second parameter (a string) - specifying its alias. As a side-effect, this solves [issue 30]. - -_Bug fixes_ - - - [issue 14]: `StdinReader` and other plugins accepting external - input don't get confused anymore when characters from `alignSep` - appear in their input. - - [issue 27]: `BottomSize` placement now respects its width argument. - - [issue 28]: Compilation in Mac OS X fixed. - - [issue 30]: `Mail` plugin can be specified anywhere in commands list. - - [issue 36]: Battery monitor now supports non-standard locations of - the `/sys/class/power_supply/AC/online` file. - - [issue 40]: Battery monitor now supports the new power_now, that - replaces current_now in linux kernels for v. 2.36 and above. - - [issue 42]: More accurate net monitor rates. - - DiskIO, Cpu and MultiCpu monitors are also more accurate now. - - Text is now correctly centered vertically. - - `FullBM` border spec fixed. - -[issue 14]: http://code.google.com/p/xmobar/issues/detail?id=14 -[issue 27]: http://code.google.com/p/xmobar/issues/detail?id=27 -[issue 28]: http://code.google.com/p/xmobar/issues/detail?id=28 -[issue 30]: http://code.google.com/p/xmobar/issues/detail?id=30 -[issue 36]: http://code.google.com/p/xmobar/issues/detail?id=36 -[issue 38]: http://code.google.com/p/xmobar/issues/detail?id=38 -[issue 40]: http://code.google.com/p/xmobar/issues/detail?id=40 -[issue 42]: http://code.google.com/p/xmobar/issues/detail?id=42 -[issue 44]: http://code.google.com/p/xmobar/issues/detail?id=44 - -## Version 0.12 (Dec 24, 2010) - -xmobar has a new [maintainer], a new [website], a new [mailing -list] and uses a new [source code repository]. - -Many thanks to Andrea Rossato, xmobar's author and maintainer so far, -for creating xmobar in the first place, and for giving me the chance -to become its maintainer. And a big thanks to Ben Boeckel, Petr Rockai -and Norbert Zeh for their patches. - -[website]: http://projects.haskell.org/xmobar/ -[mailing list]: http://projects.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xmobar -[source code repository]: https://github.com/jaor/xmobar -[maintainer]: http://hacks-galore.org/jao/ - -_New features_ - - - Window borders: configuration options `border` and `borderColor` - allow drawing borders around xmobar's window. - - New monitor, `Uptime`, showing the system uptime. - - New monitor argument (`-S`) to enable displaying the `%` symbol in - percentages or other suffixes (e.g., units in Uptime and Network); - the symbol is now never included by default. - - New 'run once' commands, by specifying a 0 refresh rate in `Run - Com` ([issue 26]). - - MPD monitor: updated to libmpd 1.5. New fields `ppos` (playlist - position) and `remaining` (remaining time). New configuration - options to specify MPD's host, user name and password. - - Battery monitor: new `watts` and `timeleft` fields (Petr Rockai), - and specific arguments to control coloring and thresholds of the - former. - - MultiCPU monitor: new `auto*` fields that automatically detect all - present CPUs (Ben Boeckel). - - CpuFreq monitor uses just one decimal digit for GHz values (Petr - Rockai). - - Mail plugin expands paths starting with "~/" (Ben Boeckel). Ditto - MBox. - - Weather monitor now skips not retrieved fields, instead of - displaying a long error message. - - New compilation flag, `all_extensions`. - - Documentation and website updates. - -_Bug fixes_ - - - [issue 23]: Wireless monitor is now compatible with iwlib 29. - - [issue 24]: Swap monitor's used ratio display fixed. - - [issue 25]: Percentages only include `%` if requested using `-P`. - - [issue 31]: MPD monitor now respects `-W` argument. - - Fixes in CPU frequency formatting, string alignment and colour - boxes in monitors (Norbert Zeh). - - TopMem and TopProc now use the `-L` and `-H` options correctly for - memory template fields. - - MBox skips non-existent mbox paths instead of hanging. - -[issue 23]: http://code.google.com/p/xmobar/issues/detail?id=23 -[issue 24]: http://code.google.com/p/xmobar/issues/detail?id=24 -[issue 25]: http://code.google.com/p/xmobar/issues/detail?id=25 -[issue 26]: http://code.google.com/p/xmobar/issues/detail?id=26 -[issue 31]: http://code.google.com/p/xmobar/issues/detail?id=31 |