1.0.0 (2024-10-17) Rewrite and some cool new features

After some months not wanting to touch the monstrosity that v0.5.x became, I decided to rewrite most of the widget, took me a month and some things still need to be worked on, but it's in a (hopefully) more stable state now.

Release highlights

Revamped preset management, built-in presets, preset preview
Faster initialization and more reliable, survives and doesn't break with Edit Mode (dragging, adding, removing widgets)
Configuration overrides, apply a different configuration for one or multiple widgets, either for the preset or personal
Blur behind custom backgrounds, requires building and installing the C++ plugin
Background shape for widgets inside System Tray
Unified background areas
New method to force colorization using color effect
Same color options for everything
New widget icon
Updated settings UI/UX and tab icons

BREAKING CHANGES

Preset configuration format and location has changed see Updated to v1.0.0, where are my presets?

Features

add option to toggle debug mode (5fa12b2)
Add some more built-in presets (0dff660), closes #54
force icon color with support for non-symbolic icons (10af807)
widget/panel custom background blur (4a5adac), closes #72
Built-in presets support (63a08d3)
color refresh & expanded representation text color fix (b11b66c)
custom widget/panel/tray item margin (7b2d316)
follow the background color of parent elements (cf38921)
hide color animation controls for now (7306d3a)
improve settings UI/UX (a2f3e49)
per widget configuration override (8d582c1)
presets revamp (afd4ca8)
spacing between widgets and padding around them (433ae8d)
unified background areas (ba5ed59)
use common components for background (a3a8ab4)
User and per preset overrides (a4ea938)

Bug Fixes

actually restore tray color and panel margin on disable (801ec94)
color scope switching and stuck panel padding (c92df5a)
correct widget margin for vertical panels (eafb4ec)
enable/disable by clicking on widget (c26d797)
Floating input fields not updating correctly (171f025)
restore default spacing in edit mode to stop plasma from freezing (c25c6c4), closes #79
restore default widget margin if zero (5bacb91)
take screenshot and reload preview after saving preset (27da6f7)
workaround korners bug on custom blur mask (a0986ba)

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27 May 10:20

luisbocanegra

v0.5.2

17a4031

v0.5.2 Bugfix Release (mostly)

~~This release is mostly a preparation before a much needed cleanup~~ Actually, I am rewriting it and is going to be even better.

Bug fixes

Fix transparent outline ugliness by drawing it inside background area
Restore now removes all customization #36
Fix panel background color set not saving #42
Fix broken system colors when switching color schemes #41
Fix blacklisted color
Fix default appearance restore
Ignore global enable from presets
Fix restoring hidden panel after global disable
Fix blacklisted color
Remove outline if background is disabled
Disable/hide controls based on category/global disabled status
Disable blacklist on global disable
Fix per widget margins layout & visibility

Improvements

Improve preset auto-loading - Allow loading a preset when a window is touching the panel #44
Split margin from background and move to separate Layout tab
Don't apply any customization by default #36

Other

Switch to RGBA for background opacity

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02 Apr 08:21

luisbocanegra

v0.5.1

3428ec4

v0.5.1 Bugfix release

Bug fixes

Added button to restore default block/margin/force recolor rules to fix rules not being deleted even after removing the matched widgets.

Only required if you updated or have presets from version 0.4.0 or older

Instructions to fix all broken presets have been provided here
Fixed missing color options for panel background