3.0.0

Breaking Changes

• Taffybar has replaced gtk2hs with gi-gtk everywhere. All widgets must now be created with gi-gtk.

2.0.0

Breaking Changes

• An entirely new config system has been put in place. TaffybarConfig now lives in System.Taffybar.Context, but for most users, System.Taffybar.SimpleConfig is the configuration interface that should be used.

• The main entry point to taffybar is now dyreTaffybar instead of defaultTaffybar.

• All widget constructors provided to both config systems must now be of type TaffyIO Gtk.Widget. If you have an existing IO Gtk.Widget you can convert it using liftIO. All widgets provided by taffybar are now of type MonadIO m => m Gtk.Widget, or specialized to TaffyIO Gtk.Widgets.

• The graphBackgroundColor and graphBorderColor fields are now RGBA quadruples instead of RGB triples.

• Module removals:

  • WorkspaceSwitcher: Workspaces is much more abstract and makes this widget redundant.
  • Pager: The Context module solves the problem that Pager solved in a much more general way. It also makes it so that the user doesn't even need to know about the Pager component at all.
  • TaffyPager: Since you no longer need to explicitly initialize a Pager, it's not really very hard to simply add the (Workspaces, Layout, Windows) triple to your config any more.
  • XMonadLog: This module has long been deprecated

• Module moves:

  • Everything in System.Information has been moved to System.Information.Taffybar
  • All Widgets that were found in System.Taffybar have been moved to System.Taffybar.Widget
  • The helper widgets that were previously located in System.Taffybar.Widgets have been moved to System.Taffybar.Widget.Generic

• Module renames:

  • WorkspaceHUD -> Workspaces
  • WindowSwitcher -> Windows
  • LayoutSwitcher -> Layout
  • ToggleMonitors -> DBus.Toggle

• Module deprecations:

  • System.Taffybar.Widget.Systray (Use SNITray instead)
  • System.Taffybar.Widget.NetMonitor (Use System.Taffybar.Widget.Text.NetworkMonitor instead)

• Many widgets have subtle interface changes that may break existing configurations.

New Features

• Widgets can now be placed in the center of taffybar with the centerWidgets configuration parameter.

• taffybar is now transparent by default, but you will need to use a compositor for transparency to work. https://github.com/chjj/compton is recommended. If you do not want a transparent taffybar set a background color on the class TaffyBox in taffybar.css.

• StatusNotifierItem support has been added to taffybar in the SNITray module.

• Monitor configuration changes are handled automatically. Unfortunately the bar must be completely recreated when this happens.

• New network monitor widgets System.Taffybar.Widget.Text.NetworkMonitor and System.Taffybar.Widget.NetworkGraph were added.

• All widgets are now exported in System.Taffybar.Widget, which should eliminate the need to import widgets explicitly.

1.0.2

Bug Fixes

• Fix long standing memory leak that was caused by a failure to free memory allocated for gtk pixbufs.
• Widgets unregister from X11 event listening.

1.0.0

Breaking Changes

• Migrate from Gtk2 to Gtk3, which replaces rc theming with css theming (Ivan Malison)

New Features

• Support for taffybar on multiple monitors (Ivan Malison)
• D-Bus toggling of taffybar per monitor (Ivan Malison)
• A new workspace switcher widget called WorkspaceHUD (Ivan Malison)
• Support for multiple batteries via batteryContextsNew (Edd Steel)
• Add support for IO actions to configure vertical bar widgets
• Images in WorkspaceSwitcher - images are taken from EWMH via _NET_WM_ICON (Elliot Wolk)
• Preliminary support for i3wm (Saksham Sharma)
• Support for multiple network interfaces in NetMonitor (Robert Klotzner)
• Add a pager config field that configures the construction of window switcher titles (Ivan Malison)
• Quick start script for installing from git with stack (Ivan Malison)
• Add a volume widget (Nick Hu and Abdul Sattar)
• Add available memory field to MemoryInfo (Will Price)
• The freedesktop.org notifications widget now allows for notifications to never expire and can handle multiple notifications at once. In particular the default formatter now shows the number of pending notifications (Daniel Oliveira)
• Battery bar is more informative (Samshak Sharma)
• Network monitor speeds are auto formatted to use the most appropriate units (TeXitoi)
• A new freedesktop.org menu widget (u11gh)

...and many smaller tweaks.

Bug Fixes

• Fixes for outdated weather information sources
• Various styling fixes in the gtkrc code
• Share a single X11Connection between all components to fix the user error (openDisplay) error (Ivan Malison)
• Call initThreads at startup. This fixes taffybar-linux-x86_64: xcb_io.c:259: poll_for_event: Assertion `!xcb_xlib_threads_sequence_lost' failed. (Ivan Malison)
• Add an eventBox to window switcher to allow setting its background (Ivan Malison)
• #105 Prevent taffybar from crashing when two windows are closed simultaneously, or when taffybar otherwise requests data about a window that no longer exists.

0.4.6

• Fix a longstanding bug in loading .rc files (Peder Stray)
• Add support for scrolling in the workspace switcher (Saksham Sharma)
• Improve default formatting of empty workspaces in the pager (Saksham Sharma)
• Relax gtk version bounds

0.4.5

• GHC 7.10 compat

0.4.4

• Fix compilation with gtk 0.13.1

0.4.3

• Try again to fix the network dependency

0.4.2

• Expand the version range for time
• Depend on network-uri instead of network

0.4.1

• Make the clock react to time zone changes

0.4.0

Features

• Resize the bar when the screen configuration changes (Robert Helgesson)
• Support bypassing dyre by exposing taffybarMain (Christian Hoener zu Siederdissen)
• Textual CPU and memory monitors (Zakhar Voit)
• A new window switcher menu in the pager (José Alfredo Romero L)
• Dynamic workspace support in the workspace switcher (Nick Hu)
• More configurable network monitor (Arseniy Seroka)
• New widget: text-based command runner (Arseniy Seroka)
• The Graph widget supports lines graphs (via graphDataStyles) (Joachim Breitner)
• Compile with gtk2hs 0.13

Bug Fixes

• Reduce wakeups by tweaking the default GHC RTS options (Joachim Breitner)
• UTF8 fixes (Nathan Maxson)
• Various fixes to EWMH support (José Alfredo Romero L)

Deprecations

The XMonadLog module is deprecated. This module let taffybar display XMonad desktop information through a dbus connection. The EWMH desktop support by José Alfredo Romero L is better in every way, so that (through TaffyPager) is the recommended replacement. Upgrading should be straightforward.

0.3.0:

• A new pager (System.Taffybar.TaffyPager) from José A. Romero L. This pager is a drop-in replacement for the dbus-based XMonadLog widget. It communicates via X atoms and EWMH like a real pager. It even supports changing workspaces by clicking on them. I recommend this over the old widget.
• Added an MPRIS2 widget (contributed by Igor Babuschkin)
• Ported to use the newer merged dbus library instead of dbus-client/dbus-core (contributed by CJ van den Berg)
• Finally have the calendar widget pop up over the date/time widget (contributed by José A. Romero)
• GHC 7.6 compatibility
• Vertical bars can now have dynamic background colors (suggested by Elliot Wolk)
• Bug fixes

0.2.1:

• More robust strut handling for multiple monitors of different sizes (contributed by Morgan Gibson)
• New widgets from José A. Romero (network monitor, fs monitor, another CPU monitor)
• Allow the bar widget to grow vertically (also contributed by José A. Romero)

0.2.0:

• Add some more flexible formatting options for the XMonadLog widget (contributed by cnervi).
• Make the PollingLabel more robust with an exception handler for IOExceptions
• Added more documentation for a few widgets

0.1.3:

• Depend on gtk 0.12.1+ to be able to build under ghc 7.2
• Fix the background colors in the calendar so that it follows the GTK theme instead of the bar-specific color settings
• Fix the display of non-ASCII window titles in the XMonad log applet (assuming you use the dbusLog function)
• Add a horrible hack to force the bar to not resize to be larger than the screen due to notifications or long window titles

0.1.2:

• Readable widget for freedesktop notifications
• Fixed a few potential deadlocks on startup
• Use the GTK+ rc-file styling system for colors instead of hard coding them