Welcome Latte Dock v0.9.0!
After a full year of development a new stable branch is finally available! This is a version full of innovations, improvements and enhancements that improve the entire experience at all areas. I have written plenty of articles for introduced major features and in the same manner this article will focus only on highlights.
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New Colors painting
Latte can now paint itself based on the current active window and when it is transparent can provide the best possible contrast for the underlying desktop background. You can read more at Latte and a Colors tale...
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| - top panel colored from kwrite color scheme - |
Indicators
New indicators are now provided and are also self-packaged. You can install them from Latte Effects page and you can find them online at kde store. You can already find Unity and DaskToPanel styles. You can read more at Latte and an Indicators tale...
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| - unity indicators style- |
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| - dashtopanel indicators style - |
Multiple Layouts Environment
With Latte you can have different layouts used at different Plasma Activities and at the same you can now share layouts to other layouts in order to achieve Shared Docks/Panels. You can read more at Latte and a Shared Layouts dream...
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| - Top Panel layout shared to two other layouts - |
Flexible Settings
All Dock/Panel settings have been redesigned in order to improve their meaning and at the same time give a way to the user to adjust their width/height scales according to their screen. You can read more at Latte and Flexible settings...
Improved Badges
Badge experience has been rethought and improved. New options have been added in order for the user to choose more prominent notification badges or use 3D style for them instead of the Material one used as default.
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| - persistent notification badge and shortcut badges - |
Documentation and Reports
At Latte Global preferences you can now find some diagnostic reports in order to debug your layouts. If you are a developer and you are interested in Latte development you can now find plenty of information at kde techbase. Read more at
Latte, Documentation and Reports...
Latte, Documentation and Reports...
Fixes/Improvements
Plenty, plenty, plenty... v0.9
provides you much smoother and bug free experience compared to previous
versions. Many areas have been redesigned and improved at areas.
Latte Development team
Because the community might have not been updated properly, Latte Development team is currently just me and this is the situation for the past two years. So for the upcoming development circle I will focus only on bug fixing and supporting the current massive features list. For new features I am not interested at all except if that feature enhances my own personal workflow. For any new features there should be an implementation to be discussed in order to be accepted and for any new features requests at bugs.kde.org I will leave them open for a month; if no developer is found then they will be closed afterwards.
Requirements
Minimum:
- Qt >= 5.9
- Plasma >=5.12
Proposed:
- Qt >= 5.12
- Plasma >=5.15
Donations
You can find Latte at Liberapay if you want to support,
or you can split
your donation between my active projects in kde store.
