2.2 1 month ago

- Some shortcuts are now not bound by default, to focus on the core feature set
- The default layout switching shortcuts have been changed to Meta+Shift+PgUp/PgDown
- Floating windows are remembered across layout switches
- Better support for screen resizing and rotation
- Support for rotating layouts
- Improved handling for maximized clients (requires KWin >= 5.16!)
- Move window left/right now moves the client to another screen if necessary
- The default split ratio for HalfLayout is now configurable

2.1 1 month ago

- The resize bindings now resize by a fraction of the screen, not a certain number of pixels
- "wine" is added to the blacklist
- Preexisting clients are tiled again
- The configuration screen has switched a widget that is now unavailable by default for one that is
- Shortcuts for switching to the next/previous tile
- A new i3-like layout
- The blacklist is now case-insensitive
- The long-standing problem where clients freeze up until they are resized has hopefully been fixed
- A new OSD is shown when switching layouts
- Better multimonitor support
- A whole bunch of minor bug fixes

2.0.0 2 years ago

This release features a bunch of stuff, including:

Improved compatibility with KWin 5 (including working shortcuts with KWin >= 5.8.3)

Ignore transient windows (improves compat with e.g. eclipse)

Use basicUnits (fixes emacs without frame-resize-pixelwise)

Improved multi-monitor support

Always respect minimum/maximum size - anything else is unsupported by KWin upstream

Improved re-tiling of unfullscreening clients

5 years ago

* Forgot to enable bladelayout, could lead to crashes/script not working.

* 1.0.1: Fix some issues with panel at the top

* 1.1.0: Add an option to disable borders
This should only be used with FocusUnderMouse, as because of a kwin limitation focus can jump and it's impossible to tell which window has focus

* 1.1.1: Bugfixes and an attempt to adjust to new or removed panels

* 1.1.2: Enable resize "animations" and bugfixes (again including panel struts)

* 1.1.3: Retile on layout switch and keep desktop floating state

* 1.1.4: Bugfixes related to tabgroups and the focus hotkeys

* 1.2: Properly retile when a client resizes (including borders), "animate" moving, improve resizing "animation", add keybinding to toggle window border and bugfixes

* 1.2.1: Remove broken tabgroup handling (tabgroups float for now) and add a possible bugfix for some transparency issues

* 1.3 (unreleased): Readd clients that return (e.g. are unminimized) to their previous tile, bugfixes (including resizing)

* 1.3.1: Tabgroups, add shortcut (Meta+Shift+M) to swap a window with the master, bugfixes

* 1.3.1.1: Fix plasmoids immediately closing

* 1.3.1.2: Fix maximizing, fullscreen and resizing bugs

* 1.3.2: Fix windows not responding and focus-follows-mouse choosing the wrong window, add an option to open windows as master

* 1.3.3: Fix movement losing windows, add workaround for steam update window, fix tiling not working

* 1.4: Add option to disable tiling by default, add per-desktop layout configuration (as a line of text currently), add shortcut to toggle borders on all clients (M-S-U), add shortcuts to resize the master window (M-Alt-{h,j,k,l}), minor bug fixes

* 1.5: Bugfixes (including crashes), optional gaps between windows, respect min/maxsize (unfortunately this could cause crashes under certain circumstances)

* 1.6 (unreleased): Make resizing layout-agnostic, a manual tiling mode, code cleanup, fix tiling when compositing is disabled

* 1.6.1: Respect min/maxSizes, multiple (or zero) master support in halflayout, bugfixes

* 1.6.2: Make respecting min/MaxSizes an option, improve fullscreen behavior, improve configuration UI, remove shortcuts for toggling a border for a single window and switching focus (as they are provided by kwin itself already)

* 1.6.3: Fix crash when number of desktops isn't height * width of desktopgrid, fix default floating list

* 1.7.0: Bugfixes, add option to defer placement to kwin