Polonium v0.5.0 is a large and mostly community-fed update, with several PRs and issues opened to both fix critical problems and add new, important features. This project has become larger than I ever thought it would with the help of the incredibly supportive KDE community. I would like to also take these patch notes to address the future of Polonium (don't worry, nothing's happening).

As probably a few of you know, I usually post these release notes or something similar on Reddit's r/KDE. Unfortunately, Reddit has made API changes to eliminate the community projects that have supported them for several years. I stand in agreement with r/KDE in the blackout, and new update information will be posted on both the unofficial Lemmy and official Discuss communities. I would also like to start releasing smaller, minor releases with bugfixes ported from the master branch. It'll be set up eventually.

Well, enough of that. I bet you didn't read all of that, did you? If you did, it was probably pretty pointless: you should've skipped down and read about all the new community contributed features and bugfixes.

Features

• Three Column tiling mode
• Cleaned up Half tiling mode
• The Floating tiling mode has been replaced by the KWin tiling mode, which supports creating tiles like how default KWin does
• Config UI rewrite (#11)
• Maximizing windows when they are the only one on screen (#15)
• BTree option to spawn new windows next to the selected window (#13)
• Blacklist based on window titles (#16)
• Resizing windows with shortcuts (#19)
• Shortcut to reload tiling
• Countless new configuration bells and whistles

Bug fixes

• Electron apps now tile correctly (#9)
• Window maximization untiles windows (#20)
• Screens now work properly when moving windows (#14)

Under the hood

• Makefile doesn't use parallel (#12)
• Create nightly releases on Git pushes (#17)
• Added sponsor links to readme

Special thanks

• @Daxtorim for making many pull requests (#13, #16, #17, #22, and #23)
• @alvesvaren for making some pull requests (#11 and #12) and reporting a critical bug (#14)
• @andaag for reporting a critical bug (#9) and making a large donation

So, happy Father's Day! I don't know how many of you are fathers, but this is my gift to you. (My dad uses Windows)