SlideWire/CHANGELOG.md

Changelog

All notable changes to Slidewire. The format follows Keep a Changelog, and versions follow Semantic Versioning.

[Unreleased]

Added

• Translations: German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese (Brazil), Polish, Hungarian, Russian, Chinese (Simplified), Japanese, Korean and Bärndütsch, with a language picker under Settings → Appearance. Chinese, Japanese and Korean use the desktop's CJK font.
• Balance: a strip can pan its apps and devices left or right, from its menu or with a knob given the new Balance role.
• Scenes can glide in over 0.5 to 5 seconds, be renamed, and be stepped through with a previous/next scene button. A scene button's LED is lit while its scene is the last one recalled.
• Swap with… trades everything on two strips.
• The sources panel shows which strip controls each app and device, and can hide those already on one.
• A strip glows when its control on the hardware moves.
• The window opens at its last size (and, on X11, position).
• Export a whole Slidewire profile (assignments, banks, scenes, buttons, focus rules) as well as MIDI Mixer's spec.json.
• Command line: mic, banks, scenes, scene save, profile, profiles and state; --json output; set --volume for the volume itself rather than the fader position. Strips can be named by the label you gave them.
• Shortcuts: PgUp/PgDn switch banks, Ctrl+Shift+M mutes the microphone.
• The connection check and the log are translated.

Fixed

• Moving a fader no longer resets an app's or device's left/right balance.
• Removing a bank left scenes and focus rules pointing at the wrong bank.
• Saving a scene under an existing name replaced it without asking.
• The mute pop-up could show the turned-down volume while ducking.
• Key combinations could not use the plus key (ctrl++ or ctrl+plus now work).
• OBS addresses can be a plain host or host:port; wss:// gets a clear message.
• slidewire bank N accepted banks that don't exist.
• Hints in menus were spread out letter by letter.

1.0.0 - 2026-10-11

The first release.

Mixing

• One channel strip per hardware channel, each with a knob, a fader, a scribble-strip display, glowing S/M/R buttons, an LED meter, and the volume in % and dB.
• A strip controls any mix of:
  • the focused app
  • apps matched by name, wildcard or regex
  • recording streams
  • "all other apps"
  • system sounds
  • any output or input
  • the default device
• Banks give 8 faders 16, 24 or more things to control. Scenes save and recall every strip's volume and mute.
• Soft takeover: a fader only takes over once it reaches the current volume.
• Strips have their own name, colour, icon, range (such as a mic that never goes below 40%) and curve.
• Ducking: a strip can turn the other apps down while it plays.
• Buses: virtual outputs that mix several apps into one fader, each playing on a real output.
• "Always play here" remembers which device an app plays on (or records from).
• A master strip for the default output.

Buttons

• Buttons outside the strips can:
  • send media keys, to whichever player is playing or to one you name
  • toggle mutes, and set or cycle the default device
  • run a command or press keys
  • switch profile, bank or scene
  • mute all inputs, or act as push-to-talk or push-to-mute
  • hear yourself (a monitor loopback)
  • load an EasyEffects preset
  • control OBS Studio: switch scene, mute a source, record or stream
• Focus rules switch to a bank or scene while an app is in front, and back when you leave it.

Controllers

• A ready-made Korg nanoKONTROL2 profile with live LEDs, and a drawing of it that lights up as you touch the hardware.
• Imports MIDI Mixer for Windows profiles (spec.json), so its presets for other controllers work.
• Learn mode for building a profile, and for re-learning any control from the mixer or the Buttons page.
• Supported input:
  • 7-bit CC and notes
  • 14-bit pitch-bend (motor) faders
  • endless encoders
• Supported feedback:
  • LED rings
  • button LEDs
  • motor faders
  • Mackie-style meters
• A connection check (slidewire --doctor) explains why a controller doesn't show up. A raw-MIDI fallback keeps devices working that the ALSA sequencer doesn't list.

Desktop

• Dark and light themes, accent colours (including the desktop's), UI size, and reduced motion.
• A tray icon with:
  • a mute badge
  • volume on the scroll wheel
  • scenes, banks and mic mute in its menu
• Focus tracking and the volume pop-up on KDE Plasma, Hyprland, sway and others. File dialogs go through the XDG portal.
• Keyboard shortcuts, undo and redo, toasts with Undo, and a first-run welcome.
• Screen readers get names and values for every control; faders and knobs work from the keyboard.
• Text can be translated (rust-i18n). English is the only language so far.
• Command line control of the running app: slidewire strips|set|mute|bank|scene.
• A systemd user unit for starting with the session. --install-icon and --uninstall cover builds without a package.

Reliability

• Only one instance runs; a second launch shows the first.
• Quitting (including SIGTERM at logout):
  • restores ducked volumes
  • turns the LEDs off
  • saves pending edits
• Settings and profiles are written atomically, readable only by you, and recovered from their backup if damaged.
• Imported profiles that run commands ask before keeping them.
• A crash is written to ~/.local/state/slidewire/crash.log, and systemd restarts the service.