v6.0.0

Changelog

macchina v6.0, codename "Gallium"

We hope you'll enjoy this release as much as we did preparing it ❤️

If you want to give back to macchina, tell your friends about it :)

BREAKING CHANGES

• MACCHINA_CONF has been deprecated. The reason being that it accomplishes
  the same thing as --config. (#200)
• In themes, the hide_bar_delimiters option has been deprecated. We've
  renamed it to hide_delimiters and moved it to the [bar] section. (#200)
• In themes, the palette option has been deprecated. There's now an entire
  section dedicated to the palette component named [palette]. (#200)

Bugfixes

• The command-line flag named --short-uptime has been renamed to
  --long-uptime, the option in your configuration remains the same. (#200)
• libmacchina: The desktop environment readout now prefers
  XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP, with DESKTOP_SESSION as a fallback. (#199)
• A spacing bug that results in uneven space between the left and right side of
  the separator in certain situations has been fixed. (#200)
• A spacing bug that results in more space being used than specified when the
  separator is invisible has been fixed. (#200)
• Every option in theme files is now entirely optional, you will no longer get
  into trouble with cryptic error messages when forgetting to set some options.
  (#200)
• macchina should hopefully be able to locate macOS users' themes now. (#200)

Features

• We've added back the option to display your physical or logical core count.
  (#200)
• There's two new manpages! One for configuration and another for
  customization. (#200)
• macchina now searches through more locations for its themes, like
  /usr/share. (#200)
• There's now a much nicer error reporting for themes. (#208)

You can now:

• use indexed and hexadecimal colors for any option that accepts a color.
  (#193)
• tell macchina what pool of colors to use in the randomization process. (#200)
• specify the kind of border you want the box to use. (#200)
• specify the glyph used by the palette (#200).

Other nice things

• --list-themes gets a new look, and it tells which theme is active now as
  well.
• Some under-the-hood changes and refactoring work that very slightly improve
  performance and make the codebase nicer to navigate.
• macchina and libmacchina's dependencies have been bumped, so we're mostly
  up-to-date.
• libmacchina: Gentoo users no longer need portage-utils for the package
  readout to report their package count.

Big thanks to

• uttarayan21 for introducing 10x better
  error reporting, and bringing a whole set of new colors to macchina.
• 0323pin for contributing a sexy-looking theme
  and testing out this version on NetBSD.
• FantasyTeddy for helping us resolve linter
  warnings for various platforms.