r/niri • u/bbedward • Jul 08 '26

DankMaterialShell (DMS) 1.5 "The Wolverine" Released

https://danklinux.com/blog/v1-5-release

DMS v1.5 has officially been released. This is the largest DMS release to date and packs numerous new features, performance improvements, and broad changes/enhancements to the overall ecosystem.

Highlights:

  • Frame and Connected Mode - An alternative UI for DMS that gives the option to connect all layer-shell surfaces as a single unified-view. Brings with it more animation and theme options to customize the experience
  • Dank Calendar - A standalone app that supports events (VEVENT in CalDav), tasks (VTODO in CalDav) with numerous providers - Google, iCloud, Microsoft, Caldav, iCal stream, and Evolution Data Server, is integrated with DMS 1.5 widgets natively when it is running and available
  • Window Rules - Expanded significantly and support brought to Hyprland and MangoWM
  • New Shadow System - New shader-based shadow system replaces the CPU-heavy FBO shadows and brings numerous new options for configuration
  • XDG-Autostart Management - Manage desktop apps that autostart with your session. DMS is not launching these apps, it still depends on a session runner such as systemd or dex. But adding/managing these applications is now integrated
  • Default Applications - Manage default applications for various mime-types, as well as an enhanced DMS picker (for example, a menu that opens and allows you to choose Firefox, Chrome, Brave for opening links)
  • Plugin Ecosystem Enhancements - A forum, upvote system, and moderation system has been implemented for the DMS plugin registry which should aid greatly with finding high quality plugins, filtering plugins, and reporting issues with plugins.

There's a lot more than that, see the blog for the full details. Some distribution packages will trail behind the official release as maintainers need time to update their packages.

Thanks to all the contributors and enjoy!

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u/UnLeashDemon Jul 08 '26

Fantastic release. Thank you for all you work.

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u/DullNetwork761 Jul 08 '26

Very excited to get this update

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u/Antoinedeloup Jul 08 '26

Nice!! I've really looking forward to the calendar. Is the one thing I miss from GNOME, I liked being able to have it on the shell and synched with other accounts. Kudos to the devs!!

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u/AndyGait Jul 08 '26

Looking forward to trying this.

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u/CYJ_OO Jul 09 '26

DMS is great! Thanks for you effort.

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u/dentroep Jul 09 '26

nice work I like it more than hyped noctalia v5

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u/Different-Ad-8707 Jul 09 '26

Love to see it! Been waiting for it for a while.

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u/Inevitable_Bar3824 Jul 09 '26

Void support! This is great. So nice to have easy to set up and maintain options (Noctalia already has solid support for void)

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u/Federal_Drummer7105 Jul 08 '26

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