From a bar and a dock to a whole desktop.
Lucid started as a bar and a dock on Quickshell. Every release since has taken over another part of the desktop: widgets on the wallpaper, a settings app that runs the machine, then the lock screen, the password prompt and the login screen, so nothing looks borrowed. Lucid 2 redrew every one of them in Material You Expressive.
It is built in the open. People open issues and pull requests on the public repo, and their work ships in the next release with their name on it.
-
The public repo opens
Lucid's first commit lands on GitHub.
-
The mark is chosen
Lucida: a broken orbit ring, a four-point star and one companion dot.
-
v0.57 beta
Tagged and kept, so it can still be cloned exactly as it was.
-
v1.0.0, the first stable release
Desktop widgets, a settings app that owns network, Bluetooth, phone and idle, and theming that reaches past the shell.
-
v1.0.5
Multiple displays done properly, special workspaces, per-app glass, and Lucid telling you when there is a new version.
-
v1.1.0
A PAM lock screen, Lucid's own polkit agent, user accounts, a login screen and light mode, plus the first community contributions.
-
v1.10.5
A fix: the shell starts on login again, instead of leaving only the wallpaper after a restart.
-
v1.20, Lucid 2
Every surface redrawn in Material You Expressive, a clock app, a widget panel, sounds of its own, and twenty-five pull requests from Ciro Rivera.
-
v1.20.1
Icons on the desktop, live wallpapers, bar modules that join into one island, files over Bluetooth, and the fix for Steam opening and closing in a loop.
