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DaveDavenport committed Aug 13, 2022
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# 1.7.4:
# 1.7.4:

Another maintenance and small features expansion release. A lot of small
annoyances have been fixed and ignored errors are now more visually flagged to
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* rofi-script(5)

Another improvement made that can have huge impact on the user-experience is a
massif speedup in the async input reading of dmenu. It turned out glib's
GInputStream async functions where very slow, so a custom implementation has
been made. Background loading is now close to the same speed as loading at
start before displaying. A million item list is now near instant. On very large
lists, the instant filtering automatically changes to be postponed until the
user stops typing. This severely reduces system load.
significant speedup in the async input reading of dmenu. It turned out glib's
GInputStream async methods are very slow. On large input sets where it was
supposed to improve the user experience, it made it unusable. To resolve this a
custom implementation has been made. Background loading is now close to the
same speed as loading at start before displaying. A million item list is now
near instant. On very large lists, the instant filtering automatically changes
to be postponed until the user stops typing. This severely reduces system load
and interface blocking.

A few long standing requests have been fixed:
A few long standing feature requests and bug reports have been implemented or fixed:

* Listview flow. You can now change the flow in the listview from vertical first
to horizontal first. Making it mimic tables.
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</snip>
```

This script can now by shows by running `rofi -show hc`.

* You can now render text as icons, this allows you to use glyphs icon fonts as
icons.

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* You can now add a separate icon or textbox widget to the UI that displays the
current selected item. As an example see the included `sidebar-v2`.

* A bug was fixed that caused problems with newer xkeyboard-config versions and
different keyboard layouts.

Below is a more complete list of changes:

# Changelog
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