Add configurable night light, smooth gamma transitions, and shell controls. Update documentation and panel tests, and fix portal test startup synchronization.
Add named keyboard shortcut maps with an Escape exit and a panel indicator. Keep press/release ownership across transitions, validate remapped Escape keys, and cancel stale repeats and focus previews.
Give the indicator ownership of the panel while a mode is active. Close popovers, collapse Morph, and keep Live Activities data current without resizing the hidden panel. Document configuration and transition behavior.
Validation: 1,519 workspace Rust tests passed; 70 Python tests passed. Workspace build, formatting, Clippy, and Settings configuration validation passed. Opt-in native desktop checks were not rerun because Weston is absent.
Related: #5.
* Add Live Activities as configurable bar items
* Fix activity owner monitoring and Morph list interactions
* Keep activity rows stable during updates and tighten their layout
* Use subtle theme tint for activity cards
* Tighten activity title and progress spacing
* Use theme accent for active progress rings
* Fit compact activities to measured titles and badge
* Expose Live Activities display controls in Settings
* Open activity terminals and streamline the Morph header
* Give Morph continuous icons and prioritize workspace navigation
* Show activity progress inside its ring
* Inset activity progress rings and strengthen their stroke
* Fix activity lifecycle, command output handling and list navigation
* Reduce activity update work and harden publisher lifetimes
* Set up Live Activities for the detected user shell during installation
* Document Activities setup, daily use and troubleshooting
* Preserve Morph idle width across empty activity updates
* Fix dimming flicker, hide inactive music tab and consolidate Activities docs
* Fix panel clearance across styles and match previews to theme settings
* Prevent panel blur from repainting neighboring islands
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Co-authored-by: Samuel Onoja <[email protected]>
Panel appearance now applies to the whole panel, with seven styles: Floating, Capsules, Notch, Edge to edge, Fused islands, Adaptive and Morph.
- Share composition, geometry, and motion through the renderer-independent `ferese-panel` crate, including native materials, input regions, and Settings previews.
- Add the Morph hub with media, calendar, notifications, controls, workspace previews, hover feedback, and attached mode. Keep recording and low-battery status visible and respect window clearance.
- Cache workspace preview geometry, draw thumbnails directly, centralize Morph transitions, and keep rendering settings local to each shell instance.
- Put Record Screen in the Morph header and show the display control only when an external monitor is connected. Update panel documentation, the desktop screenshot, and native check style names.
Local validation included 660 compositor tests, 191 shell tests, isolated preview-cache checks, GPU Morph captures at 1×/1.25×/1.5×, formatting, and Clippy with warnings denied. The final header change passed all 23 Morph tests. Release workflow jobs are skipped for this PR.
* Integrate panel composition, adaptive sizing, and overflow
* Add instance editing controls to panel settings
* Add panel group editing and measured composition preview
* Reorganize panel settings and add drag-and-drop item editing
* Simplify panel settings and place inspectors beside the editor
* Refine Panel & Shell settings, previews, and panel rendering
* Organize settings navigation and modernize packaged panel config
* Support top and bottom panels and refine shell surfaces
Add edge-aware settings, previews, popup placement, notifications, margins, and corner rendering. Preserve translucency in notification and dialog controls, and tighten spacing around the clock and display-mode icon.
* Add workspace styles and fix Settings text rendering
* Make panel allocation independent of measurement order
* Normalize panel item settings and visibility
* Move shell geometry into each panel
* Add independent group surfaces and finalize panel configuration
* Keep panel fit checks and restoration consistent with allocation
* Reject unknown panel item options and namespace metadata
* Reject invalid shell startup configuration and remove old radius fields
* Discover workspace application icons in a background task
* Remove the panel architecture document and improve reference prose
* Let panel media fill available space and improve Settings scrolling
* Preserve panel labels across clipped GPU rendering
* Use matching alpine lake wallpapers for light and dark modes
* Fix panel accessibility and popup lifecycle
Apply Reduce Transparency to panel opacity in the shell, compositor, and
Settings preview. Reject unknown theme tokens before snapshot substitution
and validate the current geometry fields in both consumers.
Dismiss popovers and workspace tooltips after panel layout changes. Handle
bar pointer exits directly and recover workspace hover after reentry without
repeated motion updates. Cover the transitions with regression tests and
update the wallpaper dimensions check for the bundled lake defaults.
* Use tagged Ferese toolkit fixes
* Fix center-only panel spacing and headless text rendering
* Bundle native 4K abstract wallpapers for both appearances
* Dismiss workspace tooltips before captured pointer dispatch
* Verify installed JPEG wallpapers when replacing a release
* save dev state
* fix xwayland-satellite supervisor lifecycle, readiness and cleanup
* remove wayland scanner protocol generated files
* default xwayland enabled with path
* remove jargons
* address x11 review: park unconfirmed cleanup, never signal a reaped group, fix storm test and notify dir mode
* fix resize tests: never build Size values from negative dimensions
* add min-width/min-height window rules that replace client minimum sizes
* rename effective_size_constraints to effective_minimum_size and minor cleanups
Update visible shell clocks at their displayed time boundaries and receive recorder state through events, with elapsed updates only while recording. Arm screenshot expiry at the earliest pending deadline and cancel abandoned requests when their IPC client disconnects.
Cache desktop clock formats across shell updates. Transfer owned screenshot readback pixels to the encoder and borrow the canvas for PNG encoding; both paths previously copied a full image. Close the recorder's stdout reader before waiting for its child when a status line is rejected.
Validation: 910 Rust tests passed in the release workspace suite, with 44 ignored. The six screenshot-script tests passed. A private nested release test passed with a visible desktop clock, notification and modal animations, and three real PNG captures. The recorder shutdown and readback ownership regressions failed before their fixes and pass afterwards.
The isolated clock settings check dropped from 30,000 allocations to zero over 10,000 rebuilds. Borrowing the PNG canvas removed 33,177,600 allocated bytes for a 3840x2160 capture while producing identical PNG bytes.
Direct DRM and laptop power checks remain pending.
Add capture privacy rules for windows, transient children, overview previews and client cursors, with separate capture rendering and deferred-frame invalidation. Keep detached close snapshots out of captures after clients leave the registry.
Validated with release workspace tests, private compositor/EGL regressions, and an isolated release PipeWire capture test.
Share window geometry across overview, resize snapshots and retained closes. Advance close handoffs and group retained rendering by stacking position.
Drive shell motion from surface frames, reuse settled widget content, and synchronize notification materials with each card's fade. Replace physical config keys with duration and bounce, and update documentation and regression coverage.
Mount nearby shortcut and theme rows, preserve gallery keyboard navigation, reset page scrolling, and reuse native themes during palette transitions. Prepare and deduplicate live config reloads on a worker and apply only changed runtime sections.
Align pointer focus and overview selection on overlapping outputs, add regression coverage, and clean up workspace Clippy warnings.
Instrument redraw sources, per-output request coalescing, and animation fallback scheduling. Route local visual changes to their affected outputs while preserving deferred grab and gesture updates.
Schedule fallback recovery using each orphaned animation output's refresh interval, suppress it while a normal frame chain exists, and retain requested final frames after scheduling failures. Add mixed-refresh, cursor footprint, frame-chain, and disconnect regressions and document measurement limits.
Share a stable damped oscillator solver across scalar and rectangle animations while preserving retarget and explicit no-crossing presentation policies. Add deterministic traces, scrolling and zoom continuity coverage, and pause-aware advancement.
Measure resize barrier and handoff timing behind resize-metrics, expose the feature through the release installer, and wait for the intended backend in isolated portal tests.
Samuel Onoja