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@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@ +% xmobar - Release notes +% Jose A. Ortega Ruiz + +## Version 0.12 (Dec 12, 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, xombar's author and maintainer so far, +for creating xmobar in the first place, and for giving me the chance +to become its maintainer. + +[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. + - MPD: 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. + - New Monitor option (`-P`) to enable displaying the `%` sign in + percentages; the sign is now never included by default. + - New 'run once' commands, by specifying a 0 refresh rate in `Run + Com` ([issue 26]). + - 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). + - 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. + +[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 @@ -12,10 +12,13 @@ xmobar was inspired by the [Ion3] status bar, and supports similar features, like dynamic color management, output templates, and extensibility through plugins. +This page documents xmobar 0.12 (see [release notes]). + [This is a screen shot] of Andrea's desktop with [xmonad] and xmobar. [This] is xmobar running under [sawfish], with antialiased fonts. And [this one] is my desktop with [xmonad] and two instances of xmobar. +[release notes]: http://projects.haskell.org/xmobar/releases.html [xmonad]: http://xmonad.org [Ion3]: http://tuomov.iki.fi/software/ [This is a screen shot]: http://haskell.org/sitewiki/images/a/ae/Arossato-config.png diff --git a/xmobar.cabal b/xmobar.cabal index c99b502..d1eb571 100644 --- a/xmobar.cabal +++ b/xmobar.cabal @@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ description: Xmobar is a minimalistic text based status bar. category: System license: BSD3 license-file: LICENSE +extra-source-files: README, NEWS author: Andrea Rossato maintainer: Jose A. Ortega Ruiz <jao@gnu.org> cabal-version: >= 1.6 |