wldash/CHANGELOG.md

Changelog

0.4.1 (2026-10-03)

• 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.

0.4.0 (2026-10-03)

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_pools 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.