Albert v0.18.0 released

Note that there have been some breaking changes. The new plugin id format changed settings keys and config/cache/data paths. If you want to keep your old plugin settings you have to adjust the section names in the config file and adjust the paths in your config/cache/data dirs. (e.g. from org.albert.files to files). Iā€™d recommend to start from scratch though, since too much changed.

albert

  • Shorter plugin ids. (This breaks configs)
  • Customizeable triggers (if the extension permits)
  • Central plugin management
  • More useful plugin metadata
  • User customizable scoring parameters
    • Add user option memory decay
    • Add user option memory weight
  • Finally scoring for all items
  • Inputline history goes to a file now
  • Settingswidget overhaul
  • Hello Qt6, C++20 šŸ‘‹
  • Entirely new interface (see header files)
    • Value typed Action class based on std::function
    • Drop all former *Action classes
      • Free functions replace and extend action subclass functionality
    • Updates to Item interface
    • New and extended query handling interface classes
    • Extended frontend interface
    • New abstract plugin provider interface
      • Common plugin metadata
      • Maintainership is a thing now!
    • Add StandardItem factory for better type deduction and readability
    • Add bgexecutor class
    • Add timeprinter
    • Leaner logging
    • Query design change (realtime, global, indexed)
    • Add extension watcher template class
    • Move XDG into the lib.

plugins

python 1.4 (0.18)

  • Use system pybind
  • 0.5 interface
  • auto pip dependencies

files 1.2 (0.18)

  • Drop bashlike completions. We have items.
  • Settings per root path
  • Add name filter dialog
  • Add option watch filesystem
  • Add option max depth

snippets 1.1 (0.18)

  • files instead database

widgetsboxmodel 1.2 (0.18)

  • Fading busy indicating settingsbutton
  • Drop rich text
  • Proper async query witout flicker using statemachines
  • Add input hint
  • Add option show fallbacks on empty query
  • Add option history search

Also new or ported to 0.18

  • calculator 1.3 (0.18)
  • system 1.2 (0.18)
  • applications_xdg 1.3 (0.18)
  • applications_macos 1.0 (0.18)
  • ssh 1.3 (0.18)
  • terminal 1.2 (0.18)
  • chromium 1.2 (0.18)
  • websearch 1.2 (0.18)
  • urlhander 1.0 (0.18)
  • hash 1.4 (0.18)
  • template 0.0 (0.18)
  • debug 1.1 (0.18)

Archived

  • firefox
  • qml box model
  • mpris
  • vbox

Check the GitHub repositories for details.