Albert v0.17.0 released

albert

• Again break init order of Item for the sake of less boilerplate. Presumed this frequency indexStrings > actions > completion > urgency.
• Let shells handle splitting/quoting
• Add core as QueryHandler. Add restart, quit, settings action. Also to tray and cli.
• Drop shutil:: and let shells handle lexing

plugins

• FINALLY ARCHIVE EXTERNAL EXTENSIONS.
• New extension state : MissingDependencies
• Disable settings items of exts in this new state
• Use pybind v2.6.1
• [term] v1.1 Let shells handle lexing
• [calc] Add muparserInt option for hex calculations
• Use QLoggingCategory in all extensions
• Implicit dependency check for executables and Python modules
• [Pyv1.3] Adopt core changes. PyAPIv0.4. Changes to the API:
  • embedded module is called ‘albert’ now
  • Reflect core api changes:
    • Positional arguments of the standard item changes
    • New semantics of the term action constructors
      • String commandline will be executed in a shell
      • StringList commandline will be executed without shell
  • Add core version of iconLookup(StringList)
  • New metadata labels:
    • version: new versioning scheme iid_maj.iid_min.ext_version
    • title: former prettyname
    • authors: string or list
    • exec_deps: string or list
    • py_deps: string or list
    • triggers: string or list
  • Allow multiple triggers
  • Allow multiple authors

python

• Adpot APIv0.4 changes
• [locate] ‘ for basename ‘’ for full path lookups
• [timer] Make notification stay.
• [baseconv] Python-style base prefixes to detect source base
• [texdoc] Add texdoc plugin
• [aur] add yay helper

Check the GitHub repositories for details.