v2.2.1

Fixes

• fix path resolutions when running ags run with default .config/ags argument
• feat: --root flag which can be used in meson and other build tools where cd is not an option

Full Changelog: v2.2.0...v2.2.1

v2.2.0

What's Changed

• --src and --tsconfig flag of the run and bundle commands are deprecated, use --define instead
• type resolution of the astal package has been moved to package.json
• templates have been updated to use a package.json
• gtk4 support
• gtk4 template

Full Changelog: v2.0.1...v2.2.0

v2.0.1

Hotifx for ags init --directory flag
Full Changelog: v2.0.0...v2.0.1

v2.0.0

After a lot of work, here is the release of AGS v2.

The core functionality of AGS has been reimplemented from scratch in Vala and C and was named Astal.
Services are now standalone libraries and can be cherry picked. Most of them also include a cli tool
to make them even more versatile. For example they could be paired with Eww.

I was debating whether to keep this project alive or move everything into Astal, but as Astal
was starting to get feature complete I realized what made AGS easy to use was missing. Namely
Astal in TypeScript/JavaScript requires a build step and it was not very convenient to just get started with.

Turns out there are quite a few things to consider when bundling and setting up a project especially when someone is not familiar with the mess of js tooling. So I repurposed AGS to act as a scaffolding tool for Astal projects written in TS/JS, while features are
done in Astal, bundling is outsourced to AGS.

Astal vs AGS v1

New features are:

• TypeScript support ootb
• JSX
• widget fixes
  • EventBox hover, and hover-lost signals will now correctly work even when they are at the edge of a window.
  • Setting the size or the icon if an Icon widget will no longer flicker.
• no more globals like App, Service and Utils
• no more Service.import or resource:///com/github/aylur/ags, simply import from astal or gi://LibName

• Service is no longer a thing, for "custom services" just simply subclass GObject.Object
• instead of Service.register you can now use decorators
• the cli client no longer uses dbus, which should be it a lot more faster
• the cli client is a lot more powerful
  • there is no need for setting variables and functions global to then access them on cli
  • you can define a requestHandler which handles messages coming from the cli

AGS v2 bundler

This project is simply meant to be an esbuild distribution.

Currently it has a few plugins builtin:

• importing .css will inline it in as a string
• importing .scss will transpile them and inline it as a string
• importing .blp will compile them and inline the xml as a string
• importing something with inline: prefix will inline the file's contents as a string

Since Astal is a library it lost App.configDir.
The goal of these plugins is to be able to bundle everything into a single
executable and avoiding having to refer to files outside the script.
In cases where you still have to refer to the source dir, AGS defines a global SRC variable.

You can:
Setup a starter project with ags init
Generate types when adding new libs with ags types
Bundle the script with ags bundle
And run a project without bundling with ags run

Checkout the Astal website and the new AGS website

Special thanks to

• kotontrion for writing some of the libraries and overall helping around
• tokyoB0t for polishing the Lua lib and Lua docs
• Xoores for being a subscriber on ko-fi from the beginning
• and everyone else who contributed

I've never really said thanks for donators before, so I'd also like to thank now everyone who donated

• awsumatt
• Jas Singh
• eXia
• johndoe42
• kotontrion
• Rubén L
• Francois Rigaut
• Keule2
• The_Branch_Manager
• Keil Miller Jr
• Grosheth
• Iain
• Harija
• magic

and especially:

• JNC
• Chris Phillips

Also thanks to everyone that picked up Astal while being developed and reported bugs either on Discord or Github.

v1.8.2

Features

• Calendar.detail
• SpinButton.range
• SpinButton.increments
• Network.frequency
• recursive Utils.monitorFile
• add: Network.vpn
• add write and writeAsync to Utils.subprocess (#388)

Fixes

• compiles with typescript >= 5.0.4
• DrawingArea.draw-fn
• hyprland: active client empty on window close
• dispose signal on Variable
• skip unnecessary value setting in Utils.derive and Utils.merge
• properly log errors from Variables
• adjust Hyprland socket (#398)

Breaking Changes

• Stream.is_muted corresponds to actual mute state
• Utils.exec returns stderr on error

New Contributors

• @A7R7 made their first contribution in #335
• @h-banii made their first contribution in #332
• @webflo-dev made their first contribution in #355
• @Robin-Sch made their first contribution in #357
• @NicolaiVdS made their first contribution in #345
• @topaxi made their first contribution in #358
• @PixisVI made their first contribution in #341
• @amitds1997 made their first contribution in #384
• @teutonicjoe made their first contribution in #380

Full Changelog: v1.8.0...v1.8.2

v1.8.0

Features

• add: Utils.watch
• custom hookable objects
• add: App.config
• impove widget subclasses
  • Calendar.on_day_selected
  • ColorButton.on_color_set
  • DrawingArea.draw_fn
  • FileChooserButton.on_file_set
  • FontButton.on_font_set
  • LevelBar.vertical
  • LevelBar.bar_mode
  • Separator.vertical
  • SpinButton.on_value_changed
  • Spinner starts based on visibility
  • Switch.on_activate
  • ToggleButton.on_toggled
• print notification daemons's name when its already running

Fixes

• Widget.attribute assign falsy values
• Overlay child type

Breaking Changes

• revert: hyprland service: workspace and monitor signal emit number
• types: Label's and Icon's Props type renamed to LabelProps, IconProps
• deprecate: default export config object in favor of App.config

Full Changelog: v1.7.7...v1.8.0

v1.7.7

Features

• App.addIcons, App.gtkTheme, App.cursorTheme, App.iconTheme
• add: Notifications.clearDelay
• add MprisPlayer.track_album
• add MprisPlayer.metadata
• add Widget.keybind
• App.applyCss takes stylesheets, and an optional reset parameter

Fixes

• prepend icons from config instead of append
• Network.wifi.enabled signal
• Utils.merge connect to notify signal

Breaking Changes

• deprecate: Window.popup

New Contributors

• @qxb3 made their first contribution in #305

Full Changelog: v1.7.6...v1.7.7

v1.7.6

Breaking Changes

• hyprland service: workspace and monitor signal emit number
• hyprland service: deprecate sendMessage, introduce message and messageAsync
• Variable: value check on setter, force on setValue
• Utils.monitorFile() no longer takes the type (file or directory) parameter. It will monitor each accordingly without specifying it.
• add: Stack.children
• deprecate: Stack.items

What's Changed

• Utils.writeFileSync
• add Utils.merge, Utils.derive
• add Binding.as alias for Binding.transform

• fix icons relative path by @kotontrion in #283
• Improve post_install.sh by @micha4w in #287
• Remove extra callback execution on widgets' .poll() method call by @postsolar in #292
• improve package overriding inside home-manager by @musjj in #293
• Remove the type parameter from Utils.monitorFile by @postsolar in #302

Fixes

• Stack.add_named
• Scrollable destroy child on destroy event

New Contributors

• @micha4w made their first contribution in #287
• @postsolar made their first contribution in #292
• @musjj made their first contribution in #293

Full Changelog: v1.7.4...v1.7.6

v1.7.4

Breaking Changes

• subclassing of gtk widgets #272
• move config options to their service instances #420

What's Changed

• fix chaining of transform function by @kotontrion in #229
• Update README.md wiki link by @sameoldlab in #231
• notifications: fix error in parseImageData on invalid pixbuf by @vaxerski in #238
• feat(widgets): add child and overlay props by @matt1432 in #237
• add url params to fetch by @kotontrion in #233
• allow circler progress to draw arc by @AhmedSaadi0 in #239
• fix(hyprland): close connection despite of promise error by @ratson in #247
• Multiple changes for Hyprland.ts by @Rykerh in #257
• Allow layer click-through by @end-4 in #245
• fix default notification timeout not applied by @Eggrror404 in #263
• refactor widget subclassing round 2 by @Aylur in #272
• fix/mpris: update identity on _updateState() by @Donnerinoern in #271
• Restore window monitor argument type by @zoriya in #174
• Pam authentication by @kotontrion in #273
• Feat/greetd by @Aylur in #282
• child property as second parameter by @Aylur in #265

New Contributors

• @sameoldlab made their first contribution in #231
• @vaxerski made their first contribution in #238
• @ratson made their first contribution in #247
• @Rykerh made their first contribution in #257
• @end-4 made their first contribution in #245
• @Eggrror404 made their first contribution in #263
• @Donnerinoern made their first contribution in #271
• @zoriya made their first contribution in #174

Full Changelog: v1.6.3-beta...v1.7.4

v1.6.3-beta

What's Changed

• Feature: Add fetch function to utils by @SoraTenshi in #187
• overwrite toJSON to include ParamSpecced properties by @kotontrion in #203
• add: PowerProfiles service by @fufexan in #218

• feat: Service.bind and Variable.bind
• feat: AgsWidget.register
• export Widget.createCtor utility
• add: Applications.reload
• add: Utils.idle
• use GLib.shell_parse_argv on Utils.execAsync

Fixes

• fix hyprland socket issue by @kotontrion in #216
• nix/hm-module: cleanup by @NotAShelf in #220

New Contributors

• @SoraTenshi made their first contribution in #187
• @fufexan made their first contribution in #218

Full Changelog: v1.5.5-beta...v1.6.3-beta