1.7.7: Time Dilation

[DaveDavenport]

1.7.7: Time Dilation

A quick-fix release following reports after releasing the 1.7.6 release.

Issues

Drawing issue

After the previous release some users experienced rofi being rendered to screen
as a black box. The issue seems to be only hit on certain video cards/drivers
see the github issue #2068.It turned out on these systems using
cairo_push/pop_group results in a black screen when the backing surface is
using the XCB library. When using other drivers, or rendering to a cairo image
surface.
Hopefully reverting to cairo_store and cairo_restore fixes this issue for everybody.

Issue #2068

Window mode missing some windows

Because of a wrong check some windows where misidentified as 'skip pager' and
hidden from the view. This should now be resolved.

Issue #2071

'Character' in config file broken

A previous patch to make using strings more easy to use in the configuration
file broke settings that use the 'character' type as setting. Because not a lot
of options use the 'Character' type , this has been 'resolved' by using the
'String' type and picking the first ASCII character.

Issue #2070

improvements

Beside these issues, also some improvements are included in this release.

Resolve 'rasinc' for @imports

When importing a theme file like this:

@import "mytheme"

Rofi would find any file 'mytheme.rasi' in any of the theme paths.
This was missing the new extension for shared include files 'rasinc'.
This is now added when resolving.

Issue #2069

Desktop file DBus activation

Some desktop files did not launch correctly because it did not implement the
DBusActivation feature. While most desktop files did provide a fallback Exec
entry, this seems to not always be the case. Rofi should now first try
DBusActivation and fall back to the Exec if it does not succeed.

Issue #1924

Resolve -config identical to -theme

if you pass an alternative config file, this is now resolved using the same
logic as the -theme argument. Making it easier to have multiple, alternative,
configuration files.

Issue #2040

Changelog

• [Widget] Don't use cairo_push/pop_group as it causes issues. ([BUG] Rofi displays as black box #2068)
• Revert "[window] Check bitmask, not full comparison". ([BUG] "window" mode doesn't show fullscreen windows  #2071)
• [Config] Remove character data type as it aliases with string. ([BUG] matching-negate-char is broken #2070)
• [Doc] Refer to releasenotes for updates in Changelog file. ([BUG] Including themes (.rasi vs .rasinc extension)  #2069)
• [Doc] Update theme documentation with import resolving update. ([BUG] Including themes (.rasi vs .rasinc extension)  #2069)
• [Themes] Update themes to import without rasi(nc) extensions. ([BUG] Including themes (.rasi vs .rasinc extension)  #2069)
• [Theme] Fix resolving of 'rasinc' extension when no extension is given. ([BUG] Including themes (.rasi vs .rasinc extension)  #2069)
• Be more diligent trying to resolve -config. ([BUG] -config path resolved differently from -theme path #2040)
• Use FALSE instead of FALSE.
• Resolve -config argument identical to a -theme argument. ([BUG] -config path resolved differently from -theme path #2040)
• [DRun] If indicated by .desktop file, launch via dbus activation. ([BUG] rofi does not spawn .desktop files with dbus activation #1924)
• [Website] Update website links and headers.

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