Solaar/ChangeLog.md

1.1.3rc3

• Update documentation files
• Lower remove python 3.7 constructs and lower python dependency to 3.6
• Fix bug in xtest mouse scrolling
• Allow mouse gesture setting for non-mice, e.g., trackballs
• Print message when there is another Solaar process running
• Fix determination of whether to force read before writing boolean setting
• Add recent diversion features to default list in rules UI
• Add setting to divert hires scroll wheel
• Don't use device kind to determine how to handle notifications
• Update Polish, Russian, and zh_CN translations
• Remove pggettext so as to not require Python 3.8
• Remove Python 2 unicode support
• Store keys in configuration file as int instead of str
• Use yaml for configuration file instead of json.
• Remove process-dependent rules from built-in rules.
• Handle situation where GTK application cannot be set up in CLI.
• Remove obsolete upower signals.
• Appinfo/metadata fixes including using correct APP_ID.
• Fix bugs in solaar config.
• Add full set of mouse buttons in persistent remappable actions setting.
• Improve rule behaviour under Wayland and when Xtest or X11 not available.
• Fix up and document dependencies (evdev, Python, ...).

1.1.2

• Update documentation on supported devices and translations
• Include evdev as a dependency
• Try to use uinput for fake input if XTest extension not available
• Add Nano receiver C542 for M190 mice
• Broaden range of HID++ Bluetooth devices
• Add setting to divert gestures
• Rule editor can edit all rule components
• Configuration via solaar config takes effect in Solaar UI if it is running
• Add setting to disable Onboard Profiles and decouple from Polling Rate setting
• Add setting for PERSISTENT_REMAPPABLE_ACTION, common keyboard and mouse cases only
• Split Test rule condition into Test and TestBytes and support in rule editor
• Fix bug in speed-change setting
• Support Backlight3 feature
• Ensure that settings are pushed in resume
• Update German, Polish, and zh_CN translations
• Determine device number for direct-connected devices from protocol
• fix bug in add and delete button actions in rule editor
• dispose of no-op notifications quickly
• add rule condition for checking device settings
• use local file for conversion from key names to keysyms
• get keyboard group and use to get correct keycodes (X11 only)
• improve how rules work under Wayland
• add settings for M-Key LEDs and MR-Key LED
• fix bug in unpacking M and MR key notification
• add G815 keyboard and MX518 mouse
• add new special keys for recent keyboards
• track M and MR keys for use in rules
• make sure that device is online when searching for devices in solaar show
• don't check for device kind in dpi sliding setting
• fix problem with devices that report 0 DPI
• handle missing divert-setting in action RW for settings
• add id property (unitId or serial) and don't use ? for unknown serial
• fix contains for NamedInts and eliminate use of has_element
• check for xtest and disable modifier checking if not available
• improve determination of gesture information
• add Set rules to rule GUI
• add gesture params to Set rules
• hide system tray when there are no devices to control
• add G733 headset, G9 mouse, G502 Hero mouse
• Use greyscale solaar icon in tray when using symbolic icons
• Fix bugs in solaar config
• Use classes for settings to hep with modularity
• Accept '~' and Toggle for toggling boolean settings in cli and rules
• handle errors when writing to devices
• refactor config_panel.py to use classes for widgets
• add rules action to set Solaar settings
• decrease amount of logging at each debug level
• don't stretch toggles in settings
• use key structure for key remapping setting
• optimize ReprogrammableKey implementation
• keep track of settings that are absent from device
• add G512 keyboard and G402 mouse
• reformat descriptors.py
• use feature numbers for reprogrammable key versions
• don't use new_from_icon_set in menu as it is deprecated

1.1.1

• Keep left pane in Solaar main window the same size
• Fix crash when checking a process condition when X11 not running
• Add version number to output of solaar show
• Fix crash when pinging a device with unknown protocol
• Display battery percentage estimates from battery voltage
• Add minimal support for Logitech PRO X Wireless Gaming Headset
• Push settings when device requests software reconfiguration
• Fix read for key/button diversion setting
• Add modalias information to Solaar metainfo
• Don't do on-screen notifications when devices are powered on
• Add setting to switch crown between smooth and ratchet scrolling
• Add write_prefix_bytes argument to Boolean validator
• Update Russian and Spanish translations
• New shell script tools to help determine capabilities of receivers
• Add special keys for MX Keys for Business and MX Keys Mini
• Improve tray menu ordering
• Add --tray-icon-size option to get around bugs in some tray implementations

1.1.0

• Fix bug when adding receiver to tray menu
• Add Catalan translation.
• Add toggle command to solaar config to toggle boolean settings
• Don't select windows with no PID when looking for focus window
• Catch errors when applying settings so that other settings are not affected
• Add support for Bolt receivers and devices, including pairing
• Revise method for creating system tray menu
• Remove obsolete code (mostly Python 2 compatibility code)
• Add support for PRO X Wireless Mouse, G914 TKL keyboard
• Ignore more notifications that come to a device listener
• Handle more device connection protocols
• Update usage and rules documentation
• Change emojis to text in documentation
• Pare down device documentation so as not to require frequent updates
• Add information about M500S mouse
• Reimplement MOUSE GESTURE and DPI SLIDING settings
• Add setting for DPI CHANGE button to switch sensitivity
• Use file name instead of icon name for tray to avoid XFCE bug
• Update documentation on implemented features and mouse gestures
• Update Polish, Japanese, and Spanish translations
• Make Quit and About strings more translatable

1.0.7

• Don't use time_ns so as not to require Python 3.7
• Correctly determine setting box in change_click method
• Handle fake Nano connection notifications
• Lock on actual handle, not just on handle number
• Mark Nano receiver C52F as not unpairing
• Upgrade pairing/unpairing documentation
• Don't signal status change when battery changes from None to None.
• Add Japanese translation
• Use first word of name for code name if no other code name available.
• Better determination of when to add SW ID.
• Check for more HID++ feature request failing.
• Fix bug with new_fn_inversion setting.
• Use correct device number for directly connected devices
• Add debug message when candidate device found
• Update Polish, Taiwanese, and Brazilian Portuguese translations
• Add MouseProcess a rule condition like Process but for the window under the mouse
• Add parameters for binary settings to support prefixes
• Add locks to serialize requests to devices
• Fix bug when reprog key requests returns None
• Fix bug for empty process name and class
• Rules can now trigger on both pressing and releasing a diverted key
• Upgrade mouse gestures to allow sequences of movements
• Fix gkeys diversion faked read
• Add support for Logitech g pro x superlight receiver
• Convert HID++ 2.0 device kinds to enhanced HID++ 1.0 device kinds
• Update about window, bug report templates, and supported kernels.

1.0.6

• Update sliding DPI to look for suitable keys
• Add mouse gestures that can trigger rules
• Complain if receivers do not support connection notification
• In polling rate setting, only modify onboard profiles when actually writing polling rate
• Add ability to ignore settings.
• Use symbols for receiver sub-registers
• Add support for wired G700
• Do not set attention icon
• Replace deprecated GTK stock menu icons
• Better handling of icons in tray and tray menus
• Receiver c52e does not unpair
• Match active WM_CLASS as well as active process name in rules
• Correctly set icon theme value when regular battery icons are not available
• Handle exception when device is not available when device is being added
• Perform initial activation of devices in listener threads
• Keep track of serial numbers in the configuration file
• Don't update settings for non-active devices
• Set the current host name if not stored on the device
• Add setting for SMART SHIFT ENHANCED feature
• Don't unnecessarily use long messages for HID++ 1.0 commands
• Correctly select choices in solaar config and use 1-origin addressing
• Add quirk for G915 TKL keyboard because its host mode interferes with its Fn keys
• Show command outputs both saved and on-device settings
• Update documentation
• Fix bug in hidconsole
• Update French translation

1.0.5

• Update documentation on devices forgetting settings.
• Improve help messages
• Fix bug in finding receiver to pair
• Solaar config command can set keyed settings.
• Add setting for polling rate
• Use long HID++ messages for all 2.0 requests
• Update German, Italian, and Polish translations
• Solaar config command no longer selects paired but unconnected devices
• Show HID++ 1.0 remaining pairings value in solaar show for devices that support it
• Add option to not use battery icons in system tray.
• Update Polish and Dutch translation.
• Add Czech translation.
• Remove information on SUSE package as it is very old.
• Turn GKEY notifications into Gn key keypresses that can trigger rules.
• Push device settings to devices after suspend when device is immediately active.
• Reduce unnecessary saving of configuration file.
• Better handling of disconnected devices.
• Implement GUI to edit rules.
• Implement rule-base processing of HID++ feature notifications (depends on X11).
• Add settings for diversion of crown and remappable keys.
• Access widgets by name instead of by index.
• Implement UNIFIED_BATTERY feature and use in battery reports.
• Add a clickable lock icon that determines where each setting can be changed.

1.0.4

• Update pt_BR translation
• Support USB and BT connected devices that are not in descriptors.py
• Use FRIENDLY NAME for codename if needed and available.
• Extract manufacturer and product ID from Udev HID information.
• Add Bluetooth and USB product IDs to device descriptors records.
• Support Bluetooth-connected devices.
• Add model ID and unit ID to device identification.
• Support changing DPI by pressing DPI Switch button and sliding horizontally
• Add device-specific notification handlers.
• Add MX Vertical USB information.
• Udev rule adds seat permissions for all Logitech devices.
• Support USB-connected devices in GUI.
• Make probe and config work for USB-connected devices.
• Improve strings and display for settings.
• Correctly handle non-unifying connection notifications.
• Update GUI strings for several settings.
• Better support for EX100 and devices that connect to it.
• Partial support for feature GESTURE_2.
• Simplify interface for settings.
• Use DJ connection notifications to set device active status
• Udev rule sets seat write permissions for hidraw nodes for device as well as receivers.
• Handle USB devices that use HID++ protocol in CLI.
• Use device hidraw nodes where possible.
• Handle receivers with serial numbers that don't provide number of pairings.
• Ignore exceptions when setting locale.
• Correctly discover settings that share a name.
• Don't show pop-up notifications at startup.
• Keep battery voltage updated in GUI.
• Add Portuguese translation.
• Update several translations.
• Add Lightspeed receivers c545 and c541.
• Reimplement REPROG_CONTROLS data structure.

1.0.3

• Clean up documentation files.
• Update documentation on installation.
• Update Swedish and French translations.
• Add Norwegian Nynorsk and Danish translations.
• Fix bug handling DJ pairing notifications.
• Add Norwegian Bokmål translation.
• Remove deprecated solaar-cli application.
• Don't install udev or autostart files from python (or pip).
• Solaar needs Python 3.6+ and probably needs kernel 5.2+
• Handle exceptions on dynamic settings when device is not connected.
• Fix infinite loop on some low-level write errors
• Add support for EX100 keyboard/mouse and receiver (046d:c517)
• Add two settings for THUMB_WHEEL feature - inversion and reporting via HID++
• Update German translation
• Use REPORT RATE feature when available to determine polling rate.
• Improve config command speed when not printing all settings
• Improve config command handling and checking of arguments
• Add setting for CHANGE_HOST feature
• Add argument to settings for values that are not to persist
• Add argument to settings to not wait for reply when writing a value to device
• Add argument to not wait for reply from request to device
• Add settings for MULTIPLATFORM and DUALPLATFORM features
• Remove Logitech documents from documentation directory
• Change config command to not read all settings when only printing or showing one
• Display hosts info in 'solaar show' if device supports it
• Remove non-working smooth-scroll from M510 v1
• Add yapf and flake8 code style checks
• Fix feature k375s Fn inversion
• Update controls (keys and buttons) and tasks (actions)
• Improved way to specify feature settings.
• Don't abort on device notifications with unexpected device numbers, just warn.
• Keep track of non-features so as not to ask device multiple times.
• Implement KEYBOARD DISABLE KEYS feature.
• Don't create notifications for DJ device activity reports.
• Update a few special keys and actions.
• Add keyed choice settings in configuration panel.
• Support remappable keys from reprogrammable keys v4 feature.
• Add setting class for keyed choice.
• Only check for features once per device.
• Use settings interface to show feature values in solaar show if no special code for feature.
• Remove maximum window size.
• Process battery voltage notifications.
• Display battery voltage information in main window if regular battery information not available.
• Show next battery level where available.
• Update list of implemented features and provide information on how to implement features.
• Add c53d as a Lightspeed receiver.

1.0.2

• Add usage document
• Don't produce error dialog for inaccessible receivers with access control lists.
• Add option --battery-icons=symbolic to use symbolic icons if available.
• Update French translation
• Update installation documentation
• Remove packaging directory tree as it is not maintained
• Pip installs udev rule and solaar autostart when doing install without --user flag
• Use Solaar icon instead of a missing battery icon
• Use only standard icons for battery levels. Symbolic icons do not change to white in dark themes because of problems external to Solaar.
• Better reporting of battery levels when charging for some devices.
• Add information on K600 TV, M350 WIPD 4080, and MX Keys
• Remove assertion requiring receivers to still be in window when they are updated.
• Augment long description of Solaar showing up in repositories.
• Update installation directions.
• Install udev rule as well as autostart file when doing system install.
• Add support for Ayatana AppIndicator.
• Use setuptools icon directory on system installs when not using pip.
• Add receiver C517 and several older devices.
• Improved translations for polish.
• Bypass bug in appindicator when solaar is file in current directory.
• Don't check that device kind matches feature kind.
• Better determination of icons for battery levels.
• Use Ayatana AppIndicator if available.
• Improve error reporting when required system packages are not install.
• Better tooltip description
• Add release script to help when creating releases
• Look up tray icon filenames to get around a bug in libappindicator.
• Make the default behavior be to show the main window at startup.
• Support c537 nano receiver
• Add logind signals for suspend/resume.
• Remove solaar-gnome3 package
• Ignore features for devices that don't follow feature specification
• Add probe command to command-line interface to dump receiver registers
• Don't terminate on malformed or unknown messages
• Create fewer internal notifications for messages from devices
• Add a button to the main window to terminate (quit) Solaar
• Set up nano receivers as receivers with no unpairing and with re-pairing
• Set up c534 as receiver with max 2 pairings, no unpairing, re-pairing
• Better support receivers that do not unpair or when pairing replace existing pairings
• Add information about receiver pairing to receiver data structure
• Better support devices that only allow a limited number of total re-pairings
• Add --window option to control main window visibility and tray usage
• Ignore receiver if USB id is not retrieved
• Fix bug with double deleting when devices are disconnected
• Determine some receiver information from data structure for USB ids
• Treat battery level of 0 as unknown
• Fix bug on devices with no serial number
• Drop support for python2, and use python3 throughout
• Fix bug in remembering features discovered from device reports
• Show icons in main window device list
• Count offline devices when determining whether pairing is possible
• Update French, Dutch, German, and Croatian translations
• Better icons for battery levels
• Support DPI, Backlight 2, Battery Voltage features
• Support M585, M590, M330, MX Master 2s and 3, new M310, new K800, craft keyboard
• Documentation improvements
• Clean up directory structure and remove unused files

1.0.1

• Updated the repo url.
• Fixed typo which was crashing the application.
• Improved the HID write routine which was causing issues on some devices.
• Fix non-unifying receivers in Linux 5.2.
• Add new Lightspeed receiver (used in the G305)

1.0.0

• Too many to track...

0.9.3

• Merged solaar-cli functionality into main solaar.
• Scrolling over the systray icon switches between multiple peripherals.
• Swedish translation courtesy of Daniel Zippert and Emelie Snecker
• French translation courtesy of Papoteur, David Geiger and Damien Lallement.
• Fixed some untranslated strings.

0.9.2

• Added support for hand detection on the K800.
• Added support for V550 and V450 Nano.
• Fixed side-scrolling with the M705 Marathon.
• Fixed identification of the T650 Touchpad.
• Added internationalization support and romanian translation.
• Polish translation courtesy of Adrian Piotrowicz.

0.9.1

• When devices report a battery alert, only show the alert once.
• Make sure devices in the window tree are sorted by registration index.
• Added an autostart .desktop file.
• Replaced single-instance code with GtkApplication.
• Fixed identification of the M505 mouse.
• Fixed an occasional windowing layout bug with the C52F Nano Receiver.

0.9.0

• New single-window UI.
• Performance MX leds show the current battery charge.
• Support the VX Nano mouse.
• Faster and more accurate detection of devices.
• If upower is accessible through DBus, handle suspend/resume.
• Replaced Solaar icons with SVGs.
• Running solaar-cli in parallel with solaar is now less likely to cause issues.
• Bugfixes to saving and applying device settings.
• Properly handle ^C when running in console.

0.8.9

• Improved support for gnome-shell/Unity.
• Persist devices settings between runs.
• Fixed reading of MK700 keyboard battery status.
• Use battery icons from the current theme instead of custom ones.
• Debian/Ubuntu packages now depend on an icon theme, to make sure no missing icons appear in the application window.
• Fixed missing icons under Kubuntu.
• Many more bug-fixes and reliability improvements.

0.8.8

• Partial support for some Nano receivers.
• Improved support for some devices: M510, K800, Performance MX.
• Improved battery support for some HID++ 1.0 devices.
• Properly handle device loss on computer sleep/wake.
• Better handling of receiver adding and removal at runtime.
• Removed a few more unhelpful notifications.
• Incipient support for multiple connected receivers.
• More Python 3 fixes.

0.8.7

• Don't show the "device disconnected" notification, it can be annoying and not very useful.
• More robust detection of systray icon visibility.

0.8.6

• Ensure the Gtk application is single-instance.
• Fix identifying available dpi values.
• Fixed locating application icons when installed in a custom prefix.
• Fixed some icon names for the oxygen theme.
• Python 3 fixes.