Changes between Version 128 and Version 129 of ReleaseNotes/Mainline

Timestamp:

2020-12-07T17:45:57Z (4 years ago)

Author:

Jiri Svoboda

Comment:

New user interface library et al

ReleaseNotes/Mainline

@@ -12 +12 @@
 
 === General ===
+
+  * HelenOS has a new, completely rewritten graphical user interface
 
   * HelenOS switched to the [https://mesonbuild.com/ Meson] build system. Among other things, this enables faster and reliable incremental builds as well as building out of the source tree.
@@ -41 +43 @@
 === Applications ===
 
-  * GUI applications no longer require window registration service as the first argument (it is optional)
+  * GUI applications no longer require specifying display service as the first argument (it is optional)
+  * Calculator (formerly vcalc) has a more standard button layout and can be controlled by the keyboard
+  * Viewer fullscreen mode is now activated by passing {{{-f}}} (previously image had to be the size of the screen)
+  * GFX Demo
+    * New application that exercises the GFX API, can be started from Launcher
+  * Font editor
+    * Very simplistic editor, does not have proper UI yet
+    * Used to create proportional font for the UI
   * Mostly fixed {{{/app/trace}}} (but still sometimes does not terminate correctly)
   * Bdsh {{{alias}}} command
@@ -54 +63 @@
       * `std::packaged_task`
       * `std::shared_future`
+  * Libui
+    * New user interface library based on GFX
+    * Uses proportional font
+    * Removed libgui, libdraw, libsoftrend
+  * Libgfxfont
+    * proportional font support
+    * Fonts stored in TPF format (using RIFF structure)
+  * Libriff
+    * Read/write RIFF files
 
 === Miscellaneous ===