News and announcements

KDocker 4.8 released

Written for Inactive kdocker (moved to https://github.com/user-none/KDocker) by John Schember on 2012-08-05

This release adds a few new features which I hope will be very helpful.

The biggest new feature is really an enhancement to an existing feature. Matching by name now supports using regular expressions (regex). The -e option was added which allows specifying the matching type. Normal substring matching is still supported and is the default. Regex, unix wildcard, wildcard and xml schema 1.1 are additional choices. Matching has been further enhanced with the addition of the -j option to enable case sensitive matching. The -k option was added to all for regex (when specified) to perform minimal matching.

Another new feature is the ability to hide and show a docked application by using the mouse scroll wheel. When scrolling over the docked icon in the system tray mouse wheel up will show and mouse wheel down will hide.

Finally, the help options are now wrapped at 79 characters. This is a purely aesthetic change and is intended to make the help text easier to read.

KDocker 4.7 released

Written for Inactive kdocker (moved to https://github.com/user-none/KDocker) by John Schember on 2012-06-05

Small maintenance release. No new features. Just a fix for building with GCC 4.7 and fix the icon for the .desktop file.

KDocker 4.6 released

Written for Inactive kdocker (moved to https://github.com/user-none/KDocker) by John Schember on 2011-05-30

This release focus on fixing two bugs when using KDocker with the KWin window manager. It fixes and issue with windows not restoring when the "iconify when minimized" option is set. There is also a small change in how windows are focused after being restored as KWin often didn't focus restored windows.

KDocker 4.5 released

Written for Inactive kdocker (moved to https://github.com/user-none/KDocker) by John Schember on 2010-11-07

Matching by name handling has been simplified in this release. The -y option to force matching by name has been removed. The -n NAME option now works the same as the -n -y combination. Also, name based matching now works whenever -n is used. Previously it would only work when KDocker is used to launch an application. These changes was at user request to make name based matching more intuitive.