neofetch/CHANGELOG.md

Contributors

• @konimex
• @iandrewt
• @jorgegonzalez

IRC

Neofetch now has an irc channel at #neofetch on Freenode. If you have any questions, issues or ideas feel free to join the irc channel and I'll be happy to assist you. I know that we've already got the gitter chat but hopefully this makes things easier for those without a github account. :)

General

• Travis now runs shellcheck on every commit and pull request.
  • We've had to exclude around 10 lint errors, see this wiki page for why we did this:
  • https://github.com/dylanaraps/neofetch/wiki/Shellcheck-Exclusions
• Optimize usage of get_de(), get_wm() and get_term().
  • We were calling these multiple times, we now check to see if they were run previously.
• Optimize info caching, only check for cache files in scripts that use caching.
• Cleanup main().
• Renamed old_flags() --> old_options().
• The manpage is now generated using help2man. help2man parses the output of --help and --version to create a manpage. This ensures that our manpage stays 1:1 with the script documentation. We actually found a lot of outdated info in the old manpage thanks to this.
  • A new flag was added called --gen-man which generates a neofetch manpage in your current directory.
• Delete most of info() and instead call prin().
  • This removes a lot of duplicate code between info() and prin().
• Remove printf subshells and instead use printf -v to declare the variables.
• Set fixed $PATH in the beginning of the script.

Info

OS <br >

• Added support for GNU/kFreeBSD.
• Merged all GNU Hurd instances to Linux since they work exactly the same way.

Shell<br >

• [Fish] Fixed memory leak caused by Fish.
• Added support for xonsh.
• Fixed version output on ksh.
• Rewrote the function to remove duplicate code. All shells now use $SHELL --version to get the version info, with the exception of mksh which doesn't have a --version flag.

Uptime<br >

• Moved duplicate code to a function.
• Changed $uptime_shorthand to on by default.

Desktop Environment<br >

• Fixed issues where MATE wouldn't be detected properly.
• Added fallback to $DESKTOP_SESSION, $MATE_DESKTOP_SESSION_ID and $GNOME_DESKTOP_SESSION_ID.

CPU<br >

• [Linux] Don't simplify cpufreq speed option names for no reason.
• [Linux] Fixed issues with CPU name detection for architectures other than x86/amd64/ARM.
• [NetBSD] Remove case statement in favor of 1 line test.
• Remove case sensitive substitutions.
  • We match everything case insensitively so they were pointless.
• Simplify check for low CPU speeds.

CPU Usage<br >

• Added Haiku cores command.
• Updated Linux and macOS commands to the match the commands in the get_cpu() function.

Birthday Install Date<br >

• Renamed get_birthday() -- > get_install_date()
• Removed all date usage from get_install_date().
• Added a new function called convert_time() which takes the time stamped ls output and converts it to a pretty format. The function only uses bash so its much faster than calling date. This makes things simple and keeps the output consistent across all Operating Systems. Example: 2016-12-06 16:58:58.000000000 --> Tue 06 Dec 2016 4:58 PM

Disk<br >

• Rewrote function from scratch.
  • The function is 40 lines smaller than before and works on all [1] versions of df we tested on [2].
• We only show the root (/) partition now.
  • Showing a total of all disks only worked on GNU df and we had to hardcode different commands for Distros and Operating Systens that used a different df.
• We're using the same df flags across all Operating Systems now.
  • No more ugly case statements or per distro hardcoding of df flags.
• Removed all percentage calculation since df already provides us with the percentage.
• Warn the user if df isn't installed.
• Fixed broken output if df wasn't installed but the function was enabled.

[1] The function doesn't work on Haiku since their df is wildly non-standard. (The output format and flags are 100% different from all of the other df versions floating around.)

[2] Tested on GNU, Busybox, BSD, Solaris and macOS df versions.

Song<br >

• [cmus] Simplify block and fix artistsort bug.
• Removed state detection.
• Removed duplicate dbus-send commands.

Battery<br >

• [MacOS] Fixed issue where battery always appears as charging. @jorgegonzalez

Local IP<br >

• [BSD and Solaris] Merged the detection to Linux.
• [Windows] Support multiple interfaces.

Color Blocks<br >

• Use start++ instead of adding it manually after case. @konimex

Images

• [iTerm2] Fixed blank images.

Ascii

• Added Ubuntu-Studio. @konimex
• Fixed bug causing macOS ascii art to be used on other Operating Systems.
• Display warning about 'ascii' being the new default mode.

Screenshot

• Use arrays for $scrot_program

Args

• Fixed bug where neofetch --config sourced the user config twice.
• Cleaned up config arg handling.