Latte Dock v.0.7 has been released!!! The second Latte stable release has just landed!
Go get it from, github !
if you dont want to build it yourself, you can wait a few days to launch on your distro repositiories!
| - youtube presentation - |
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| Latte v0.7 |
Take notice, Latte v0.7 is only compatible with:
- Plasma >= 5.9
- KDE Frameworks >= 5.29
- Qt >= 5.7
What to expect in the new release, you may ask...
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multiple layouts in editor |
Dynamic Layouts
you can have different layouts for your Latte which are updated dynamically without closing the application. At the same time you can assign these Layouts to your Activities, meaning that when you get into one of those Activities, Latte is updating its layout accordingly. To achieve the above goal we provide an all new Layouts Editor.
Hint: The previous Alternative session is now supported through Layouts
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| appearance page in basic mode |
we simplify things for new users by providing two different modes for the configuration window. If you prefer simplicity stay with the Basic mode. On the other hand if you prefer full customizability, the kde style, switch to Advanced mode. We tried to follow the kde moto:
" simple by default,
powerful when needed "
powerful when needed "
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six different visibility modes |
Windows Go Below
a sixth visibility mode was added, in order for your dock to be always on top without taking up space from other windows. So now we provide, Dodge Active, Dodge Fullscreen, Dodge Windows, Auto Hide, Always Visible, Windows Go Below
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| title tooltips |
Title Tooltips
Show the title of the items during hovering. Such as tasks or applets that support the parabolic effect.
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background of Arc Dark theme with 35% opacity and no shadows |
Enhance Configurability
You can change the dock offset, the panel transparency, define a different shadow for the applets and enable/disable the panel shadow.
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| top dock with no maximized window available |
Dynamic Background
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| same dock with maximized window |
Show the panel background only for maximized windows and be transparent otherwise.
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three separators (two as applets and one internal) not blocking the parabolic effect |
Separators
support separators everywhere including one special internal separator for tasks
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| hearing radio in the browser |
Audio Streams
audio stream indicator for tasks, the user can increase/decrease/mute the volume through this indicator
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use the global launchers group for this dock |
Launchers Group
Unique: a unique set of launchers
Global: the global set of launchers
Layout: the layout set of launchers
Hint: these groups are used in order to sync launchers between different docks
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| official plasma taskmanager in Latte |
Plasma Taskmanagers
support
applets that take up all the free space of the dock (in Justify
alignment).
So the user is now able to replace the Latte Tasks plasmoid with his favourite plasma
taskmanager
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| hearing the radio, downloading a file and three messages waiting to be read |
libunity support
support the libunity way of showing
counters and tasks progress through the plasma way of doing this.
Tip:
the libunity9 library is needed
Global Shortcuts
Super : show the app launcher, howto...
Super+` : show the dock if hidden and expose the task number
Super+Number : activate the relevant task
Super+Ctrl+Number : create a new instance for the relevant task
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| five unread e-mails |
Thunderbird Plugin
a community provided thunderbird plugin
using the Latte dbus interface to expose the number of unread
e-mails. You can download it from here.
Wayland Tech Preview
We are trying to support wayland for the Plasma environment and so we now provide a tech preview. You shouldnt notice any difference except bugs that exist also at the desktop environment. The docks are positioned correctly and most of the features should work already.
Hint: As this is a tech preview expect some things to break or not work correctly. Plasma team has moved its focus to wayland so you could expect from us improvements following of course their development steps...
fixes / improvements
- switch completely to plasma libtaskmanager for launchers and tasks
- improve color handling for window different states
- add Widgets through the context menu
- places support from Plasma 5.10
- a special Latte spacer that its size can be set in pixels or in percentage according to the current Latte icon size
- active window indicator for window previews
- copy dock support, fantastic feature for multi-screen environments
- remember last active window in a tasks group and use the mouse wheel to cycle through a tasks group
- restart Latte in case of a crash
- overlay over plasma applets such as forlderview in order to provide correct parabolic effect (bug: showing problematic animations for icon sizes smaller of 64px)
- provide our own build-in active applet indicator in case the user wants to have uniformity across its docks
- move the lock button from the drag area into the tooltip
- disable automatic icon size shrinking when a plasma taskmanager is used
- improvements for parabolic effect and various animations
- support import/export for layout independently and for the full configuration
- support automatic and manual importing from v0.6 architecture
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Wallpaper
1. BoxCat Games - "Epic Song" at, freemusicarchive.org2. Podington Bear - "Now Song" at, freemusicarchive.org
3. Podington Bear - "Buddy Guy" at, freemusicarchive.org
