Kitty 0.34.0 release - Changelog - eviltoast

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Changelog: https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/changelog/#detailed-list-of-changes

0.34.0 [2024-04-15]

  • Wayland: panel kitten: Add support for drawing desktop background and bars using the panel kitten for all compositors that support the requisite Wayland protocol which is practically speaking all of them but GNOME (#2590)
  • Show a small scrollback indicator along the right window edge when viewing the scrollback to keep track of scroll position (#2502)
  • Wayland: Support fractional scales so that there is no wasted drawing at larger scale followed by resizing in the compositor
  • Wayland KDE: Support background_blur
  • Wayland GNOME: The window titlebar now has buttons to minimize/maximize/close the window
  • Wayland GNOME: The window titlebar color now follows the system light/dark color scheme preference, see wayland_titlebar_color
  • Wayland KDE: Fix mouse cursor hiding not working in Plasma 6 (#7265)
  • Wayland IME: Fix a bug with handling synthetic keypresses generated by ZMK keyboard + fcitx (#7283)
  • A new option terminfo_type to allow passing the terminfo database embedded into the TERMINFO env var directly instead of via a file
  • Mouse reporting: Fix drag release event outside the window not being reported in legacy mouse reporting modes (#7244)
  • macOS: Fix a regression in the previous release that broke rendering of some symbols on some systems (#7249)
  • Fix handling of tab character when cursor is at end of line and wrapping is enabled (#7250)
  • Splits layout: Fix move_window_forward not working (#7264)
  • macOS: Fix an abort due to an assertion when a program tries to set an invalid window title (#7271)
  • fish shell integration: Fix clicking at the prompt causing autosuggestions to be accepted, needs fish >= 3.8.0 (#7168)
  • Linux: Fix for a regression in 0.32.0 that caused some CJK fonts to not render glyphs (#7263)
  • Wayland: Support preferred integer scales
  • Wayland: A new option wayland_enable_ime to turn off Input Method Extensions which add latency and create bugs
  • Wayland: Fix hide_window_decorations not working on non GNOME desktops
  • When asking for quit confirmation because of a running program, mention the program name (#7331)
  • Fix flickering of prompt during window resize (#7324)