A lot of components have been added into this project, as well as some overhauled design, improvements in the themes, bug fixes that come from both the project and upstream development. Updated to work with KDE Plasma 5.25.4, and KWin 5.25.4 (KWinFT 5.25.0).
The biggest changes were made to the Start Menu, System Tray, the Date & Time, and general Plasma look and feel to make it more compact and use up less visual space, as well as improve readability in many areas.
This release also features a new Qt visual style for Kvantum, which is supposed to replace QGtkStyle for Qt applications. The GTK2 theme is still available for GTK2 applications, and can optionally still be used for Qt applications as well.
**Authors of forked projects are all credited in the README.md file. **
The full list of all additions, changes and fixes:
- Fixed the state logic for the hover effect on desktop icons. The hover effect now properly implements the hover, selected, and hover+selected states.
- The taskbar hover preview is no longer enabled on startup, even if the user hasn't actually hovered over the preview.
- Taskbar hover previews will no longer show scrollbars.
- Task icons in the taskbar will now show a generic icon when the programs fails to provide its own icon.
- Removed a deprecated line of code which crashes Seven Tasks due to upstream changes. [#5]
- Fixed the bug where Smaragd will still allow you to resize the window when it is maximized.
- The binary for Smaragd is now placed in an easy to find directory and is properly documented. [#2]
- Smaragd will now disable rounded corners for maximized windows.
- Fixed minor padding issues with Smaragd.
- Smaragd will no longer draw text glow if there is no text in the first place.
- Updated Smaragd to the new API changes in upstream. Smaragd blurs properly once again and no longer has the "kornerbug" issue. [#6]
- Fixed various positioning bugs related to Seven Start. [#1][#4]
- Updated side links to the latest syntax for KDE's System Settings and Default Programs in Seven Start.
- The avatar icon in Seven Start now causes the mouse cursor to change to the pointing hand cursor.
- The buttons for changing Seven Start's orb icons are no longer disabled by mistake. [#4]
- Seven Start's side elements will no longer randomly glitch out for no reason.
- Fixed layering issues with Seven Start.
- Fixed certain crashes related to Seven Start.
- Recent programs will now update every time Seven Start is opened.
- Fixed the animation duration for System Tray icons.
- Fixed minor padding, sizing and alignment issues in various places.
- Fixed the huge separator line appearing in a few plasmoids.
- Restored the appearance of the tab widget used for plasmoids.
- Fixed AeroColorMixer to work with the current version.
- Added and replaced a bunch of icons with Aero counterparts.
- Removed unnecessary debugging console output.
- Many visual elements have been ported from Aero with as SVGs for DPI scaling.
- Replaced (most) raster textures used in Seven Start with SVGs for better DPI scaling.