KDDockWidgets 1.2.1

Highlights of the 1.2.1 Release

• Support for resizing dock widgets when they are in overlay/popup mode (autohide/sidebar feature)
• Fixed title bar close button enabled state not being restored with Layout saver (#137)
• Installs a version header (kddockwidgets_version.h) that defines a version string and other useful versioning macros (#138)
• DockWidgetBase::eventFilter() is protected instead of private (regression vs v1.1) (#148)
  It's recommended that you rebuild your application when updating KDDW, as MSVC encodes private/protected in the name mangling.
• Fixed WASM build on Windows (#163)
• Fixed sidebar overlay not getting hidden when clicking on the main window docking area (#157)

KDDockWidgets 1.2.0

Highlights of the 1.2.0 Release

• Wayland support
• Added Flag_KeepAboveIfNotUtilityWindow, so you can have keep above even if floating window is shown in the task-bar
• Added DockWidget::windowActiveAboutToChange() signal
• Added support for Qt6 (PySide6 support is lacking)
• Added WASM support

KDDockWidgets 1.1.1

Highlights of the 1.1.1 Release

• Windows: Fixed a crash when clicking on the close button for floating windows in some situations (#110)
• Don't show dock/undock icon when dockwidget is not dockable (#99)

KDDockWidgets 1.1.0

Highlights of the 1.1.0 Release

• New drop indicator style type: Segmented Indicators
• Windows: Drop Shadow for floating windows
• Added AutoHide / SideBar support
• Added FocusScope support
• Added DockWidget::isFocused() and DockWidgetBase::isFocusedChanged()
• Added Config::Flag_AlwaysTitleBarWhenFloating, which complements Flag_HideTitleBarWhenTabsVisible
• Added Config::Flag_DontUseUtilityWindowsForFloating
• Added Config::Flag_TitleBarHasMinimizeButton
• Added Config::Flag_TitleBarNoFloatButton
• Added Config::Flag_AutoHideSupport
• Added Config::setTabbingAllowedFunc(TabbingAllowedFunc func)
• HDPI improvements, new high-res icons
• Bugfixes:
  • Windows: Fixed windows not having proper minimum size.
  • Windows: Fixed moving windows across screens with different DPI (#72)
  • Don't center floating windows if the user set a custom position (#75)
  • Fixed floating window's title not being correct (#74)
  • Fixed focus scope not reacting when clicking on current tab (#71)
  • Fixed floating window borders not being rendered correctly on HDPI due to rounding errors.
  • cmake/Python - don't require pkg-config, only use if available (#68)

KDDockWidgets 1.0.0

Highlights of the 1.0.0 Release

• PySide2 bindings
• Rewrote the layouting engine, resulting in a huge stability gain and makes it easy to add new features
• Honour min/max sizes and some QSizePolicy heuristics
• Lazy resize (resize only when dropping the separator)
• Native Windows dragging (supporting Aero-snap)
• Allow to hide TitleBar and just show tabs. Allow dragging via the tab bar.
• Reordering tabs with mouse
• Partial layout save/restore (affecting only a subset)
• Double-click on title bar to maximize
• Maximize button on the title bar
• HDPI: Relative layouting restore
• Allow to make a dock widget non-closable and non-dockable
• Show close button on tabs
• Multiple Main Window support
• Allowing to dock on different parents
• Support for affinities, making some dock widgets only dockable on certain main windows
• 200 unit-tests
• Fuzzer which found plenty of crashes in the old layouting engine
• ASAN fixes
• Double click on separator to distribute equally
• Hovering over an indicator returns the true size that the dropped widget will get
• Static build support
• Namespaced Qt support
• Dozens of crash fixes, bugs and much more...