First Latte beta release for v0.9.0 is getting ready and I am really happy about it :) . But today instead of talking for the beta release I am going to focus at two last minute "arrivals" for v0.9; that is Layouts Reports and Documentation. If you want to read first the previous article you can do so at Latte and "Flexible" settings...
Layouts Reports
There reports are targeting the most experienced Latte users that use different layouts and work frequently with the hidden but important Layouts Editor. In that case you may have noticed a message dialog that is appearing when opening the Layouts Editor when one or more layouts are broken.
To access these new Reports for Layouts you can use the settings dialog menu and more specific File → Screens and Layout → Information
Screens Report is produced from ~/.config/lattedockrc file and as you can see in the relevant screenshot provides screen ids and names, which screens are active, which one is the primary or secondary and which screen has no docks/panels assigned in the system and can be safely removed
On the other hand Layout Information Report provides dock/panel ids, which screen and edge they are assigned at, if they are currently active or not, what are the systray ids and if there are any orphan systrays/containments that can be safely removed when this layout is not active. At the end of the dialog there is an errors section that informs about the layout healthiness. If the layout is broken or is considered suspicious for instability (e.g. when there are different applets that use the same id even though they should not) then the relevant errors and information appear.
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| - settings window in v0.9 - |
To access these new Reports for Layouts you can use the settings dialog menu and more specific File → Screens and Layout → Information
Screens Report is produced from ~/.config/lattedockrc file and as you can see in the relevant screenshot provides screen ids and names, which screens are active, which one is the primary or secondary and which screen has no docks/panels assigned in the system and can be safely removed
On the other hand Layout Information Report provides dock/panel ids, which screen and edge they are assigned at, if they are currently active or not, what are the systray ids and if there are any orphan systrays/containments that can be safely removed when this layout is not active. At the end of the dialog there is an errors section that informs about the layout healthiness. If the layout is broken or is considered suspicious for instability (e.g. when there are different applets that use the same id even though they should not) then the relevant errors and information appear.
Documentation
First I want to thank the great Chris Raven that approached me through reddit /u/Magentium and helped me upload the technical documentation in techbase.kde.org ! Very important job and took off my shoulders a big burden.
So if you are a developer and you are interested to make your qml plasma applet to work nice with Latte or you want to provide your own majestic Latte Indicator through kde store then you can now find all the needed information.
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| - Latte Dock at techbase.kde.org - |
For those that have missed it in the past all Latte user documentation has moved in the kde userbase website. I know that some of the information might be outdated but nonetheless as a community we can all help.
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| - Latte Dock at userbase.kde.org - |
Latte v0.9 Release Schedule
- Tomorrow OR on Friday: v0.9 first Beta release [tagged v0.8.97], bugs / translation strings fixes and improvements for ten days
- End July 2019: v0.9 will be released officially as the new Latte stable version
How Can I Help?
Bugs, bugs, bugs.... Translations, translation, translations...
- As you may noticed plenty new settings are added in v0.9 and bugs can exist when combining options
- Even though the kde localization teams are checking out the translation strings almost daily and I THANK THEM for this!! We are humans and translation strings may be possible to improve
- For complicated settings I use tooltips in order to describe them better. If you find such option that does not have any tooltip OR its tooltip text can be explained more or be simplified feel free to report it (I am not a native english speaker)
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.
