Latte Dock | Farewell...

 

 

Hello everyone,

 

Unfortunately I would like to inform kde community that I am stepping away from Latte development. No time,motivation or interest from my part is the main reason. I hope that this will give free space and air for new developers/maintainers to step in and move Latte forward.

 

I hoped that I would be able to release Latte v0.11 but unfortunately I can not. Releasing Latte v0.11 it would mean that someone would maintain it afterwards and that is no more the case. 

 

For the last 6 years developing Latte was a beautiful journey and taught me plenty new things. I would like to thank you all for that beautiful journey, kde community members, users, developers, enthusiasts and plasma developers.

 

Have fun and enjoy life...

 

 

KWin 5.25 | Korners Fix

Hello everyone,

this is a heads up for designers to update their KDE decorations if they want to support Blur for any of their decorations since Plasma 5.25. Let me explain you what has changed and what you need to update.

• Blur for ALL decorations is disabled in KWin 5.25 and that fixes korners bug for all solid decorations without requiring any further actions from them.
  
• C++ decorations that would like to enable blur for them they need to use KDecoration2::Decoration::blurRegions API that has been introduced.
• Aurorae decorations that are solid they do not need to update anything in their regard.
  
• Aurorae decorations that would like to enable blur they need to add a "mask" element inside their decoration.svg file. The "mask" element should have the same padding used for active and inactive decorations. Following screenshot demonstrates such "mask" element and you can also use a demonstration theme.
  

 

 

Latte Dock v0.10.8 | Bug Fix Release

 

Let's welcome Latte Dock v0.10.8 the 8^th Official Bug Fix Release of v0.10.x branch!

 

Go get it from, download.kde.org^*

Latte Dock v0.11~ | Multi-Screens Dream, an AllScreens option...

 

Hello everyone,

This is a long awaited feature for multi-screens users. In Latte upcoming v0.11 users can now choose their docks and panels to be on all screens or on all secondary screens. Docks and panels will be up to date in such case and it is also easier for users to make changes to them and use them in general.

- youtube presentation -

Latte Dock v0.10.7 | Bug Fix Release

 

Let's welcome Latte Dock v0.10.7 the 7^th Official Bug Fix Release of v0.10.x branch!

 

Go get it from, download.kde.org^*

Latte Dock | Plasma LookNFeel support

Hello everyone,

As the title implies from now on Plasma LookNFeel packages can contain and apply Latte Layouts. What that means is that distros and designers can include their latte layouts inside their own Plasma LookNFeel package and Plasma will auto adjust everything in order to load or unload the latte layout. The relevant approved merged reguest can be found here.

 

Latte Dock v0.10.6 | Bug Fix Release

 

Let's welcome Latte Dock v0.10.6 the 6^th Official Bug Fix Release of v0.10.x branch!

 

Go get it from, download.kde.org^*

Latte Dock v0.10.5 | Bug Fix Release

 

Let's welcome Latte Dock v0.10.5 the 5^th Official Bug Fix Release of v0.10.x branch!

 

Go get it from, download.kde.org^*

Latte Dock v0.10.4 | Bug Fix Release

 

Let's welcome Latte Dock v0.10.4 the 4^th Official Bug Fix Release of v0.10.x branch!

 

Go get it from, download.kde.org^*

Latte Dock v0.10.3 | Bug Fix Release

 

Let's welcome Latte Dock v0.10.3 the 3^rd Official Bug Fix Release of v0.10.x branch!

 

Go get it from, download.kde.org^*

Latte Dock v0.10.2 | Bug Fix Release

 

Let's welcome Latte Dock v0.10.2 the 2^nd Official Bug Fix Release of v0.10.x branch!

 

Go get it from, download.kde.org^*

Latte Dock v0.10.1 | Bug Fix Release

 

Let's welcome Latte Dock v0.10.1 the 1^st Official Bug Fix Release of v0.10.x branch!

 

Go get it from, download.kde.org^*

Latte Dock v0.10.0 | Official Stable Release

Let's welcome Latte Dock v0.10.0 the Official Stable Version of v0.10.x branch!

 

No major issue was reported during the last month, only small bug fixes were added in the stack here and there. Version 0.10 will be the only official stable version that will be maintained in the future, any previous versions are considered obselete and out of date. Enjoy...

Go get it from, download.kde.org^*

Latte Dock v0.10 | Second Beta Release

Getting closer to v0.10 stable release...

 

Let's welcome Latte Dock v0.9.98  the Second Beta of  v0.10.x branch!

 

A new beta was needed because some core parts were updated such as Last Active Window implementation (L.A.W.) . LAW is responsible to track windows per panel/dock level and provide these information to latte centric applets such as appmenu, title, buttons etc. Through LAW, Latte is possible to provide information for windows on inactive VDs/Activities/Screens. By reimplementing some of its parts the multi-screen users that use appmenus/titles/buttons applets in different screens should now get one of the best experiences. You can check how this fix was tracked down from: https://github.com/psifidotos/applet-window-appmenu/issues/172

 

LAW implementation is found at https://invent.kde.org/plasma/latte-dock/-/blob/master/app/wm/tracker/lastactivewindow.h

 

Go get beta from, download.kde.org^*

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Latte Dock v0.10 | Beta Release

Two years in the making and long awaited from Latte Community because of its advancements.

 

Let's welcome Latte Dock v0.9.97  the First Beta of  v0.10.x branch!

 

Next three weeks will be given for bug fixing and translators to step in. If everything goes on schedule then in middle of July next official stable v0.10.0 will be released.

Go get beta from, download.kde.org^*

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Latte bug fix release v0.9.12

 

Hello everyone, as it appears the Latte Dock issue with Plasma 5.22 was solved by openSUSE. Everyone should thank Fabian Vogt for providing the relevant patch and give a few more months life for v0.9.x branch.

You can get both  v0.9.12 [stable]  and v0.9.91 [pre-beta of v0.10.x] from  store.kde.org^*

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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.

• Latte Dock 
• Latte Separator 
• Latte SideBar Button
• Latte Spacer
• Panel Transparency Button
• Window Title Applet
• Window Buttons Applet
• Window AppMenu Applet
• Unity Indicator
• DashToPanel Indicator 

Latte Dock | End Of Life for v0.9.11

Hello everyone, this is a notice for users and distro packagers.

 

Latte v0.9.11 is the last published stable version for v0.9.x branch but it is not updated or maintained any more. It has not beed updated for more than a year and unfortunately  the next stable branch v0.10.x is not ready yet. I will probably need three or four months from now to complete its implementation.

 

The bad news is that v0.9.11 is not compatible with Plasma 5.22 . All users using v0.9.11 when they update to Plasma 5.22 will observe a broken Latte Tasks plasmoid.

 

Solutions:

• Distros should update to latest Latte git version which I call pre-beta and is versioned v0.9.91 in master branch
• Someone steps in and publishes a new v0.9.12 release that is compatible with Plasma 5.22 . No problem if some features do not work, it just needs to provide a valid Latte Tasks plasmoid
• Users after 5.22 should switch to plasma panels and wait for official Latte v0.10.x to be provided from their distros
  

 

All relevant talk can be followed at: bug#413187

Latte Dock HowTo Session #1 | The Basics

 

Hello everyone, this is the first episode from Latte HowTo Sessions. For all these episodes, upcoming Latte v0.10 will be used to demonstrate different options and areas of Latte Dock applicaiton.

- youtube presentation -

Latte Dock v0.10~ | Templates, templates...

 

Hello everyone,

let's improve our layout and view templates in order to make distros and users life easier when they share their Latte layouts and views. View in Latte stands for a Dock or Panel.

 

Latte Dock v0.10~ | Simplify Layouts Mode

 

Hello everyone,

that is a major new feature, so please read carefully and take full backup before updating to Latte v0.9.86~   ^{[~,  stands for rapid development,  in your distro package repos is mentioned as git version]}