1.4.0

[MrKai77]

📰 Important News

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⚙️ Window Actions

• ✨ ✨ New shrink/grow actions #785 Horizontal/vertical-only grow/shrink actions
• ✨ ✨ Add a "Minimize others" action #797 New "Minimize others" action
• ✨ ✨ Add directional screen switching #820 Top/bottom/left/right screen switching
• ✨ ✨ Add horizontal fourths window positioning #855 New horizontal fourths actions
• ✨ ✨ Add directional focus navigation for windows #870 Top/bottom/left/right focus navigation between windows
• ✨ ✨ Focus next in stack #929 New action to focus the next window in a stacked configuration
• ✨ ✨ Scale up/down actions #939 New actions for larger/smaller while preserving aspect ratio
• ✨ ✨ Fill available space action #968 New fill available space action

⚡ Input & Triggers

• ✨ ✨ Add a toggle for cycle mode #786 Option to restart cycling from the first action
• ⚙️ ✨ Modularization of trigger key detection, system window manager bug fixes #798 Modularized trigger key detection with system window manager bug fixes
• ⚙️ ✨ Trigger key improvements, remove usage of notifications throughout codebase #802 Improved trigger key handling and removed notification usage throughout codebase
• ✨ ✨ Add support for side-independent trigger keys #866 Side-independent trigger key support (left/right modifiers can be used independently)
• ✨ ✨ Better mouse handling #897 Improved mouse event handling
• ✨ ✨ Introduce TriggerKeyTimeout #953 Configurable trigger key timeout
• ✨ ✨ Allow calculated mouse position to exceed screen bounds #955 Mouse calculations improved so radial menu can be opened & used at screen edges

🎨 UI/UX Enhancements

• ✨ ✨ Instant focus keybind popup #789 Focus window action picker popup on appearance
• 💄 ✨ Increase Stage Manager strip size range, fix clamping #806 Increased Stage Manager strip size range with improved clamping
• 💄 💄 Liquid glass icons for AppIcon-Classic and AppIcon-Developer #810 New Liquid Glass icons
• ✨ ✨ Introduce AccentColorController #814 Centralized accent color management with AccentColorController
• 💄 ✨ UI improvements + Liquid Glass in radial menu #851 UI improvements with Liquid Glass styling in radial menu
• 💄 ✨ Increase maximum corner radius value in preview configuration #888 Increased maximum corner radius value in preview configuration
• ✨ ✨ Lightweight IconView #893 Lightweight IconView component for optimized icon rendering in Keybinds & Radial Menu tabs
• ✨ ✨ Improved preview window animations #900 Smoother and more responsive preview window animations
• ✨ ✨ Ability to use window corner radius in preview + SkyLightToolBelt & SkyLightSymbolLoader #906 Previews can now use actual window corner radius
• 💄 ✨ Re-organize menubar dropdown menu #914 Reorganized menubar dropdown menu
• 💄 💄 Luminare UI updates #918 Luminare UI updates
• ✨ ✨ Radial menu customizability #934 Fully customizable radial menu with visual guides; actions can be standalone or linked to keybinds!
• 💄 💄 Improve visual effect behaviors when inactive #935 Improved visual effect behaviors when inactive
• 💄 ✨ Change some defaults, fix graphical bugs in settings #950 Changed several default settings and fixed graphical bugs
• ✨ ⚡ Refactor WindowEngine to operate on non-main actor by default #964 Stashed windows will now reveal themselves when activated externally (e.g. Spotlight search)
• 💄 💄 Change "Restart to complete" to "Relaunch to complete" in update window #966 Reworded "Restart" to "Relaunch" in update window
• 💄 💄 More preview configuration options, materialize radial menu #971 Additional preview configuration options with materialized radial menu

🔧 System Integration

• ✨ ✨ Option to suppress Mission Control when window snapping #842 Option to enable Mission Control gesture even when window snapping is enabled
• ⚙️ ✨ Replace event monitors, improve AX permission handling #849 Replaced event monitors and improved Accessibility permission handling
• ✨ ✨ Proportional window resizing across screens #874 Windows now preserve proportions when moving between displays
• ✨ ✨ Ability to use window corner radius in preview + SkyLightToolBelt & SkyLightSymbolLoader #906 Improved methods for loading private APIs in SkyLight
• ✨ ✨ Precompute padding #943 Precomputed padding for optimized window positioning
• ✨ ✨ Check for minimum macOS version in future updates #952 Update checks now verify minimum macOS version compatibility
• ✨ ✨ Notify user if their macOS version is no longer supported #957 Users are notified if their macOS version is no longer supported

🛠️ Developer Experience

• 📄 🚛 Project organization updates #813 Project organization improvements
• ✨ ✨ Introduce Scribe Logging package #917 Unified logging system with Scribe package
• 📄 📄 Introduce Internet Access Policy file #946 Added Internet Access Policy file
• 📄 ✨ Update issue templates #960 Updated issue templates

⚡ Performance

• ⚡ ⚡ Cache system keybinds when processing keypresses #930 System keybinds are now cached during keypress processing
• ⚡ ⚡ Refactor WindowEngine to operate on non-main actor by default #964 WindowEngine refactored to run on background threads, eliminating UI lag during window operations

🐞 Bug Fixes

• 🐞 💄 Fix Luminare settings window on macOS Tahoe #805 Fixed Luminare settings window not disappearing on macOS Tahoe
• 🐞 🐞 Match window frame before initializing Window #812 Window frames are now matched before initializing Window objects
• 🐞 🐞 Do not swallow mid-click down event #848 Middle-click down events are no longer swallowed by Loop
• 🐞 🐞 Use screen.displayBounds instead of screen.frame #850 Fixed multi-monitor positioning by using screen.displayBounds
• 🐞 🐞 Restore trigger delay and double click functionality #860 Restored trigger delay and double-click functionality
• 🐞 🐞 Restore .otherMouseDragged event type to support middle click trigger #863 Restored middle-click trigger support
• 🐞 🐞 Add kVK_Delete and kVK_Help as special Fn keys #864 Delete and Help keys now recognized as special Fn keys
• 🐞 ✨ Also listen to left mouse drag events to reveal stashed windows #865 Left mouse drag events now properly reveal stashed windows
• 🐞 🐞 Fix recording of arrow key keybindings #873 Handle special keys that are modified by the fn modifier
• 🐞 🐞 Put determineDraggedWindowTask = nil inside defer block #886 Fixed potential memory leak in window drag detection
• 🐞 🐞 Reset ListenEvent when requesting Accessibility access #905 ListenEvent is now reset when requesting Accessibility access
• 🐞 🐞 Handle PIP windows #915 Picture-in-Picture windows are now properly handled
• 🐞 🐞 Improved settings window managment #916 Improved settings window management
• 🐞 🐞 Slow file picker #940 Fixed file picker performance issues
• 🐞 🐞 Force close TriggerKeycorder when window loses focus #941 TriggerKeycorder now force-closes when window loses focus
• 🐞 🐞 Don't block non-window roles from being resized, improve errors #942 Windows with non-window roles are no longer blocked from resizing
• 🐞 🐞 Next/previous screen switching should start from screen with window #947 Screen switching actions now start from the screen containing the window
• 🐞 🐞 Fix double click trigger #948 Fixed double-click trigger
• 🐞 🐞 Don't change action for noSelection actions in rapid succession #951 Prevented rapid action changes for noSelection actions
• 🐞 🐞 Fix undo even when preview is disabled #954 Undo functionality now works even when preview is disabled
• 🐞 🐞 Fix event monitor leaks caused by onDisappear not being called #959 Fixed event monitor memory leaks
• 🐞 🐞 Correctly focus window when system WM is enabled #970 Windows are now correctly focused when system window manager is enabled

🌏 Localization

• 🎌 Loop now supports Japanese!
• 🌐 🌐 Localization experience improvements #868 Add context to many localization keys
• 🤖 💚 GitHub Actions Crowdin Integration #872 Automated Crowdin integration for more frequent translation updates

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Minimum macOS version: 13.0

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This discussion was created from the release 1.4.0.