- Backlight: a config with a `!backlight` widget on a machine without `/sys/class/backlight` entries (or with a `device` name that does not exist) panicked at start ("did not find backlight device"), fatal with `panic = "abort"`. The widget now warns once on stderr, renders empty and ignores clicks, so one config can be shared between a laptop and a desktop.
- Fonts: a `font_paths` entry pointing at a file that does not exist on this machine made the font-loader thread panic and abort wldash ("Font file not found"). Pinned paths that are missing now fall back to fontconfig by name, with one line on stderr; a font that cannot be resolved at all exits with a clear message instead of a backtrace.
-`--write-default-config` no longer writes absolute font paths. Configs shared between machines with different font package layouts (`fonts/noto` vs `fonts/google-noto`) were breaking on the second host; names are resolved per machine instead. Existing configs keep working, and `font_paths` can still pin a file on purpose.
- No more desktop-file cache: wldash scanned `~/.cache/wldash/desktop.json` (on NFS for shared homes, and stale after every package install) and needed a manual `--desktop-refresh`. Desktop files are now scanned on a background thread at every start, a few milliseconds over local `/usr/share`. `--desktop-refresh` is a no-op kept for key bindings; `simd-json` is gone.
- Calculator history and the Escape-saved prompt moved from `$XDG_CACHE_HOME/wldash` to `$XDG_STATE_HOME/wldash` (`~/.local/state`), where small roaming state belongs; old files are still read.
- Launcher: `Type=Link` entries open their URL with `xdg-open`; `Terminal=true` entries run inside `$TERMINAL -e` when that variable is set.
First release of the project.uhhm.no fork, packaged for the `[uhhm]` Arch registry. Numbering: upstream's old code base was tagged up to v0.3.0 and the rewrite called itself 0.2.0; this fork continues above both so pacman sees a monotonic version.
- Launcher: the prompt cursor was a byte offset in some places and a grapheme index in others, so typing æøå and then End or another key crashed wldash. The cursor is grapheme-based everywhere, Up stops at the last row, mouse selection can't underflow, and all desktop Exec field codes (`%i`, `%c`, `%k`, `%%`, ...) are stripped.
- No more aborting on machines without a backlight, battery or PulseAudio: `/sys/class/backlight` itself was taken for a device, UPower's always-present DisplayDevice for a battery, and a failed audio connection panicked a thread (fatal with `panic = "abort"`).
- Redraws: `Geometry::expand` computed the damage height from the wrong field; buffer refcounts no longer underflow; `wl_shm_pool`s are destroyed on resize.
- Input: a key-repeat rate of 0 divided by zero; Escape is now seen by the launcher first so the prompt is saved for Ctrl+R; the first layer-surface configure always lays out.
- Config: `/etc/wldash/config.yml` takes precedence over `~/.config/wldash/config.yml` when present (machine-local layout on NFS-shared homes); `--config` overrides both. Errors print one line and exit 1 instead of panicking.
- Housekeeping: `memmap` → `memmap2`, unused `shlex` dropped, zero rustc/clippy warnings, rustfmt applied, unit tests for the prompt, Exec parsing and geometry.
## 0.2.0
Upstream (kennylevinsen/wldash) rewrite, the state this fork started from.
