v2.2 With Raisins

A new Petronia release!

• Added "resizable" flag for applications.
  • Applications can set a "resizable" flag (defaults to on), to specify
    whether the matching window should be resized to fit into the
    portal. Before, the matching window would have to be excluded from
    tiling control in order to not be resized.
  • Updated "no_border_config" and "border_config" to use the flag.
• Added "snap" option to portals.
  • Windows that do not fully fit within a portal are now "snapped" into
    a relative position within the portal. By default (and the original
    behavior), the window snaps to the top-left corner of a portal. Now
    it can be positioned relative to any corner or side.
  • Updated "no_border_config" and "border_config" to use the flag.
• detect-monitors command now supports different output formats.
  • Run with "-f (format)" to output in a different format.
  • Supported formats are: yaml, json, and py.
  • Format now defaults to yaml instead of python.
• Added user extensions directory support.
  • You can either use the %PETRONIA_USER_DIR% environment variable, or
    the -e command-line argument, to specify where Petronia should look
    for user extensions. This allows for adding in components to your
    configuration.
• Changed how you specify the layout argument at the command line.
  • It used to be that the layout name was the optional second argument. Now,
    you must specify it with the -l or --layout argument.
  • The check-layout command is unchanged.
  • Command-line parsing for cmd and main now use argparse to grant the
    ability to have more complex arguments. Unfortunately, this lead to
    the backwards incompatibility with the layout name.
• Documentation improvements.
  • Cleaning up to better reflect the current version.
• Bug fixes.
  • Fix portal chrome from staying on top of overlay windows.
  • Improved portal chrome to not have the annoying white border in
    Windows 8. (#6)
  • Portal chrome windows no longer shows up on the task bar.
  • Correctly associated portals to their aliases. This information wasn't
    being passed to the portal factory before.
  • Hide the "KeyboardInterrupt" exception from users when running the
    detect-keys command, because this is an expected action.

v2.1 Action!

Version 2.1 Action! of Petronia is out!

• render_active_portal is finally gone.
  • It's been removed. You can't use it anymore. Use the portal_chrome
    instead.
• Updated documentation to reference the yaml files.
  • Documentation has been rearranged to make the yaml config file format
    front and center.
  • Included more example configurations.
• Added component configuration in dictionary-based configuration files.
  • Dictionary-based config files (json, yaml) can now specify the
    configuration and setup for components.
  • Started the path for allowing external components.
• Added portal_chrome component.
  • Shows the active and inactive portals.
• Bug fixes.
  • So many bugs. Actually, they just weren't tracked well.

2.0 Easy Config Oven

Version 2.0 with lots of improvements is out.

• Configuration now allowed as yaml and json files!
  • You can write your configuration files as yaml or json files now.
  • Updated example to include a yaml and json version.
• Added new user command: focus-last-flashing-window
  • You can now bind a key that will raise the most recently "flashing"
    window to the top, and give it focus.
• Switched from parse_simple_mode to parse_exclusive_mode
  • Exclusive mode more explicitly describes the purpose of the mode.
• Chrome configuration backwards-incompatible changes
  • The "chrome" configuration was mostly placeholders for future
    functionality. Now that more of the design is in place, this is
    now a holder for other components to reference.
    Configurations don't use it anymore.
  • Removed 'color' property from the chrome border.
  • Borders are set by the classes that manage portal borders themselves.
  • Moved the decoration of windows into the application settings, to allow
    for more flexibility on a per-application basis.
  • Application setup now has default_has_border and default_has_title,
    replacing the original default_is_managed_chrome
• Windows not owned by tiling management can now receive commands.
  • Added ability to send some user commands to windows not in the tiling
    management.
• Bug fixes
  • Portals now correctly remove listeners for closed windows.

1.2 Hot Dog Another Patch

Hot Dog! Another Petronia patch.

• Chrome config no longer uses border 'width' attribute.
  • The 'width' attribute on the Chrome configuration borders was always
    intended as a placeholder. Now, it's not needed, and has been
    removed.
• Bug fixes
  • When a window is destroyed, the event is now passed to all the
    components (#4)
  • render_active_portal now draws the windows a bit more accurately,
    without rendering refresh glitches. It's still not good.
  • Changing window focus in the current portal to previous
    (switch-top-window previous) now correctly moves to the previous
    window.
  • Fixed issues around finding windows that aren't owned by the
    user. Now, all visible windows should be managed that are only owned
    by the current window. This also fixes problems with adding certain
    applications that were incorrectly recognized as not owned.

v1.1 The Quantum Patch

v1.1 is out, with improvements to the window movements!

Download the zip bundle for your architecture, or the source bundle if you have Python 3.5 already installed and you like typing in a command window.

• Move window improvements.
  • When you move a window between portals, it now has a better chance
    of remaining on top of the other windows after the move. There's
    still some cases where it doesn't work, though. (#1)
• Swap window within the same portal.
  • You can now swap between focused windows within the same portal.
    Use the ["switch-top-window", "previous"] and
    ["switch-top-window", "next"] commands.
• Added documentation for the Component configuration.
• Added "flashing" capabilities to the render_active_portal plugin.
  • When a window indicates that it should "flash", the
    render_active_portal plugin will flash the border color of the
    portal that contains the flashing window.
• General documentation improvements.

Super Alpha 1.0

Version 1.0 is out!

With this release, you can control your Window borders and locations of your Windows. You can also install alternate hotkey commands. The documentation is available in the binary release packages. You can also run Petronia from the source release.