What's new in Xfce 4.11.1
Nov 4, 2013
- Wrong g_return_if_fail macro used
- Fix icon moves and deletions
- Don't cache the pixbufs in single workspace mode
- Clear all pixels from drag highlight box (Bug 10450)
- Speed up template sub-menu loading code (Bug 7834)
- Always move files from the trash (Bug 3983)
- Fix template sub-menu loading code (Bug 10138)
- Fix menu popups via the command line
- Use the Path key of desktop files if a path is not set (Bug #8741)
- Correctly display settings defaults
- Fix some memory leaks
- Include the chronological option in the combobox
- Allow the font size to go to 0.
- Tooltip options in xfdesktop-settings
- Add a chronological backdrop cycle option
- Additonal backdrop cycle options
- More removable device icon types (Bug 4056)
- Add icons in an idle callback
- Right click issues persist (Bug 9323)
- Migrate backdrop settings from previous versions (Bug 10380)
- Set warnings as fatal
- Update manpage (Bug 7576)
- Allow renaming of multiple icons
- Translation updates: Arabic (ar), Bulgarian (bg), Chinese (China) (zh_CN), Chinese (Taiwan) (zh_TW), Dutch (Flemish) (nl), English (Australia) (en_AU), French (fr), Hungarian (hu), Icelandic (is), Italian (it), Kazakh (kk), Korean (ko), Polish (pl), Portuguese (pt), Portuguese (Brazilian) (pt_BR), Russian (ru), Serbian (sr), Spanish (Castilian) (es), Thai (th), Turkish (tr), Ukrainian (uk), and Uzbek (uz).
New in Xfce 4.10 Pre1 (Apr 2, 2012)
- Dependency Changes:
- GTK+ dependency >= 2.20 and GLib >= 2.24.
- Libxfce4util soname changed.
- Garcon has a new libxfce4util dependency.
- Exo has a new libxfce4ui dependency.
- Libxfce4util only depends on glib (was gobject).
- Xfce-utils is not needed anymore. Functionality has been moved in xfce4-session, libxfce4ui, xfce4-appfinder or is removed.
- Xfce4-session does not (optionally) depend on xfce4-panel anymore. The plugin has been integrated with the actions xfce4-panel plugin.
- Xfce4-session does not check for consolekit, hal, upower and polkit. It has soft dependencies on consolekit and upower (communication over DBus).
- Xfce4-session does not (optionally) depend on gconf anymore.
- Development Tools (xfce4-dev-tools):
- Add support for LT_PREREQ (bug #6920).
- Remove spec file and rpm build target.
- Do not create a gzip tarball.
- Never use xdt-autogen in autogen.sh.
- Fix FSF address and add missing licenses.
- Only use -fstack-protector on Linux systems.
- Don't use -g3 for full debugging.
- Support xldscope for Sun Studio.
- Skip -Wredundant-decls on OpenBSD.
- Disable --as-needed on OpenBSD (bug #7546).
- Use pkg-config macro for detection (bug #7787).
- Port exo-csource to xdt-csource (bug #6449).
- Utility Library (libxfce4util):
- Make licenses static. You can only use xfce_get_license_text(...).
- Remove unused .h files.
- Remove xfce_strip_context(), use g_strip_context().
- Remove XfceDesktopEntry.
- Don't generate enum types.
- Only link against glib.
- Set version string to 4.10.
- Remove spec file and rpm build.
- Missing fallback for AC_RUN_IF_ELSE() when cross-compiling (bug #8166).
- Fix XfceRc group parsing with brackets in name (bug #8150).
- Reduce XfceRc structure size from from 216 to 176 bytes.
- Use some macros and drop unneeded strlen's in XfceRc.
- Use GSList in xfce-resource.
- Bump verinfo to 6:0:0.
- Widget Library (libxfce4ui):
- Open docs.xfce.org when Help in xfce4-about is clicked.
- Cache header icons and avoid large icons in XfceTitledDialog.
- Restore glade directory information in .pc file.
- Update translator credits.
- A lot of improvements in the shortcuts code.
- Add Alt + F1 as a shortcut for applications menu.
- Remove unused code from the internal header widget.
- Add xfce4-about from xfce-utils package.
- Use xdt-csource instead of exo-csource, depend on xdt 4.9.0.
- Update to new xfce4-appfinder commands.
- Fix build against 3.9 Glade (bug #7334).
- Add shortcuts for XF86WWW and XF86Mail.
- Simplify the xfce_gdk_screen_get_active fucntion.
- Add xfce_dialog_show_help function.
- Extension Library (exo):
- Drop gtk 2.24 api (bug #8461).
- Bump libxfce4ui dependency for help function.
- Send exo-open startup-id to child instead of using it (bug #7093).
- Add preferred app helper for Chromium (bug #8398).
- Remove package manuals and link to online documentation.
- Queue an icon view resize if the requesitions don't match.
- Add new API exo_icon_view_get_item_{column,row}.
- Add keynav-failed to ExoIconView.
- Show Preferred Application in settings category.
- Don't destroy already destroyed widget.
- Translation updates: Chinese, Portuguese, Lithuanian, Norwegian, German, Bulgarian.
- Do not insert symlink icons in the icon chooser.
- Use libxfce4ui instead of support library.
- Drop the python bindings.
- Use new libtool macros and versions (bug #6920).
- Remove spec file and rpm build.
- Silenty save to local application is permission denied to origional file in exo-desktop-item-edit.
- Support hexadecimal xid and center exo-desktop-item-edit on parent.
- File Manager (thunar):
- Fix crash when trying to thumbnail a file with unknown content type.
- Fix properties dialog crash with files with unknown content type.
- Fix crash when hovering a CD drive with a special icon (bug #7309).
- Use portable abicheck.sh from xfconf.
- Avoid segfaults due to interpreting display names as format strings.
- Improve the UI according to bugs #7496 and #7497.
- Treat backup files as hidden as with thunar-vfs (bug #7615).
- Fix crash when opening a mountable drive with no media (bug #7308) in a way that does not break SMB shares (#bug 7774).
- Fix segfaults in case icons are missing or not found (bug #7880).
- Allow exec bit of MS-DOS executables and MSI to be changed (bug #3545).
- Prevent falling back to an unexpected locale (bug #4746).
- Show translated names of desktop files (bug #7393).
- Fix sorting of filenames with large numbers (bug #5356). Patch by Eric Koegel.
- Respect ThunarIconFactory::show-thumbnails. Fixes a regression.
- Fix crash when removing an ancestor of the current folder (bug #8168).
- Fix handling %U when launching multiple files with an app (bug #7456).
- Improve sorting of file names that include numbers (bug #5359, bug #8022, #4269, #5286).
- Add a "Skip All" button to the file overwrite dialog (bug #4263).
- Compress icons and images.
- Remove the manual.
- Use 32 instead of 36 pixels for small icons.
- Show Thunar settings in category.
- Don't update UI more then fourth per second in deep count job.
- Fix sorting of applications in chooser dialog.
- Depend on Gtk 2.20 and Glib 2.24 and drop some workarounds.
- Fix removing custom application launchers again.
- Prevent looping in some renamers.
- Fix segfault when plugin returns a NULL suffix.
- Remove spec file, rpm build and update libtool.
- Lowercase the thunar executable and install a Thunar symlink.
- Make the clipboard persistence (bug #7060).
- Use glib functions for get/set cwd (bug #7522).
- Don't interpret file display names as format strings
- Paste files in correct order (bug #6504).
- Fix truncated strings when loading and storing emblems (bug #7171).
- Only erase top-level items from trash (bug #7147).
- Don't interpret file display names as format strings (bug #7128).
- Ship stock_folder-copy.png and stock_folder-move.png icons with Thunar itself (bug #6851).
- Fix segfault when calling strcasecmp with NULL parameters (bug #7206).
- Only change the Name field when renaming desktop files (bug #7155).
- Force desktop file reload after changing the Name field.
- Fix memory leak caused by not destroying the rename job.
- Allow installation of helper scripts in a custom location using the --with-helper-path-prefix=PATH configure option.
- Improve thumbnailing by avoid sending thumbnail requests while theuser is scrolling in a directory.
- Cancel thumbnail requests when leaving a directory.
- Avoid regenerating thumbnails when files are copied, moved, linked or trashed.
- Update the thumbnail cache when files are deleted permanently.
- Application Finder (xfce4-appfinder):
- Add Help button to preferences dialog.
- Make sure the header icon does not shrink (bug #8489).
- Set single line label for icon sizes is small (bug #8490).
- Add option to disable the background service.
- Block maximize and fullscreen in collapsed mode (bug #8491).
- Chain-up unmap.
- Start in collapsed mode if xfrun4 symlink is used.
- Select entry when Ctrl+L is pressed.
- Quit the mainloop when receiving an exit signal.
- Avoid xfconf error when closing windows on quit.
- Add icon view mode and add preferences to set icon sizes.
- Only show categories with items.
- Add keybinds to switch modes (Ctrl-1 and Ctrl-2).
- Improve reloading of items and directories.
- Add popup menu to edit, hide and revert desktop files.
- Add refcount debugging.
- Remove xfrun from the utility menu.
- Fix some segfaults.
- Add option to save custom command matches.
- Insert and reload history command in model.
- Change treeview filter prio to avoid window resize.
- Add left/right navigation to the treeviews.
- Add a custom completion match function.
- Use long option, looks better in code completion.
- Drop usage of new Gdk keycode api (bug #8044).
- Fix launching in collapsed mode.
- Don't ignore arguments of the desktop file command.
- Always allow up/down unless the completion menu is shown.
- Fix segfault when loading default actions.
- Rewrite of the the application finder to merge the functionality of the appfinder as we know it in 4.8 and xfrun4 (start with --collapsed).
- Panel (xfce4-panel):
- Panel: Don't destroy window when focussed and Alt+F4 is pressed (bug #7378).
- Panel: Use new help function to redirect to docs.xfce.org.
- Docs: Remove mallard documentation.
- Docs: Don't install the gtkrc README.
- Clock: Don't use sigval_t (bug #8297).
- Panel: Add support for pluggable dialogs.
- Panel: Save changed plugin ids if a plugin failed to load.
- Directorymenu: Fix prefered app not working without snotify (bug #8298).
- Launcher: Small=FALSE in deskbar mode with label visible.
- Actions: Limit size of action buttons to row size.
- Panel: Removed item size checks.
- Clock: Fixing clock orientation in vertical/deskbar mode.
- Pager: Fixing infinite loopin in the WNCK pager aspect ratio workaround.
- Pager: Fixing plugin->size updates.
- Pager: Fixed workspace ordering in the vertical mode.
- Pager: Workaround for aspect ratio error in WNCK pager in deskbar mode.
- Pager: Changing orientation depending on the panel mode.
- Clock: Changing default value of rotate-vertically to TRUE.
- Pager: Fixed preprocessor macro.
- Pager: Removing broken workaround for aspect ratio in deskbar mode.
- Pager: Making use of a fixed libwnck version (>=2.31.0).
- Revert "Use realtime POSIX timers for the clock."
- Revert "Clock: Don't use sigval_t (bug #8297)."
- Launcher: Show the desktop file in the tooltip (bug #8536).
- Panel: Make string in about translatable (bug #8545).
- Panel: Don't ask for panel when inserting items (bug #8544).
- Panel: Reply to the caller for plugin events (bug #7365).
- Applicationsmenu: Fall-back to xfdesktop for xfce4-popup-applicationsmenu (bug #7365).
- Applicationsmenu: Recurse application menu selection-done gignal (bug #8541).
- Panel: Add (un)lock option to panel menu (bug #6980).
- Panel: Add confirmation before creating launchers from dnd (bug #6926).
- Applicationsmenu: Allow non-squared icons in applications button (bug #7381).
- Panel: Save plugin-ids when removing and moving items in ed.
- Tasklist: Bringing back 4.8 max-button-size property.
- Tasklist: Capping buttons height when button labels are visible.
- Tasklist: Reverting "ceil" to "floor" (as in 4.8).
- Actions: Query visibility and save as strings.
- Panel: Add option in preferences dialog to disable struts (bug #7202).
- Showdesktop: Allow middle-click to shade windows (bug #7177).
- Panel: Add style property to control size of autohide window.
- Panel: Make compositing settings insensitive (bug #7862).
- Tasklist: Add option to disable mouse scrolling (bug #6996).
- Tasklist: Make the plugin shrink instead of expand (bug #7389, #7129).
- Drop AC_PROG_LIBTOOL and AC_DISABLE_STATIC for LT_PREREQ and LT_INIT.
- Clock: Use realtime POSIX timers for the clock.
- Actions: Merge functionality of xfce4-session plugin.
- Applicationmenu: Show menu on button-press-event (bug #8047).
- Migrate: Add version based config migration.
- Clock: Fix typo in tooltip (bug #8137).
- General: Add deskbar mode and nrows property to plugins.
- General: Add small property for plugins.
- Separator: Remove new line option.
- General: Make plugins work with deskbar mode and small property.
- Panel: Change drop highlighting to a red line.
- Applicationmenu: Reload menu on directory changes.
- Panel: Make sure the panel has a position on startup (bug #8287).
- Panel: Work with a unique id for each panel.
- Panel: Remove autosaving on exit and with timeout.
- Panel: Only save what is required and when needed.
- Docs: Update to latest version.
- Session Manager (xfce4-session):
- Add accelerators to logout dialog buttons (bug #6982).
- Add support for starting assistive technologies.
- Remove optional dependency for gconf.
- Remove Xfce4-tips.
- Remove early xfsettingsd autostart and add it to the session.
- Fix crash if save timeout for a client is triggered (bug #7320).
- Add a way to delete sessions (Bug #5730).
- Drop usage of G_CONST_RETURN macro.
- Add Xft.xrdb, startxfce4, xinit, xfce.desktop and xflock4 files from xfce-utils.
- Explicitly link to libm where needed (bug #7953).
- Remove the xfce4-panel logout menu plugin.
- Don't try to remove the $HOME directory (bug #8154).
- Remove manual and link to docs.xfce.org.
- Show dialog in settings category.
- Link to gmodule (bug #8340).
- Improve fadeout code with compositing enabled.
- Start screensaver with autostart.
- Support the TryExec key for autostart in the settings dialog.
- Rework the logout dialog code.
- Cleanup the power management code.
- Let xfce4-session handle the dbus-launch checking.
- Add support for launching xfce4-session in consolekit.
- Add --with-ck-launch support to startxfce4.
- Add option to lock the screen on suspend/hibernate.
- Remove unused icons.
- Show all applications in autostart (bug #8014).
- Drop gpg-agent and ssh-agent handling.
- Settings Manager (xfce4-settings):
- Xfsettingsd: Don't set large dpi in xrdb (bug #8415).
- Include xscreensaver in the manager dialog.
- Complete theme installation script.
- Settings editor: Set sensitivity of save button on init.
- Xfsettingsd: Properly round display refresh rate to find match.
- Add mime icons in the mime-editor treeview.
- Store window and column sizes in xfconf.
- Add cateogry based settings manager.
- Re-add support for pluggable dialogs and enable them always.
- Rework settings editor.
- Clear out keyboard shortcuts before resetting to defaults (bug #8138).
- Use daemon() for xfsettingsd if available.
- Hide the xfconfd-already running message completely.
- Excluded items with NoDisplay=true in the settings dialog.
- Remove duplicated accelerators (bug #7734).
- Add theme dnd-installation by dropping in a treeview.
- Drop AC_LIBTOOL in favor of LT_PREREQ and LT_INIT.
- Wait for the window manager before setting workspace names.
- Add option to disable numlock restoring (bug #8302).
- Add Help button and make existing buttons work with wiki.
- Add new MIME Type editor.
- Depend on Gtk+ 2.20 and Glib 2.24.
- Merge xfce4-settings-helper into xfsettingsd.
- Add support to xfsettingsd for pointing device properties.
- Rework the mouse dialog and add support for basic synaptics and wacom settings.
- Add option to enable assistive technologies during login.
- Add fontconfig monitoring (bug #5011).
- Improved debugging with XFSETTINGSD_DEBUG=1.
- Configuration Manager (xfconf):
- Use sh as interpreter in tests.
- Add hook to skip the xfconf tests.
- Make the abicheck work on Solaris and PPC64 (bug #7416).
- Fix licenses and use new FSF address.
- Fix compiler warnings on Solaris.
- Avoid GCC 4.6 compiler warning.
- Add toggle option to xfconf-query.
- Remove unusable import and export options from xfconf-query.
- Translate all error strings in xfconf-query.
- Cleanup Makefile.am files a bit.
- Improve --version output in xfconf-query.
- Cleanup #includes.
- Drop usage of the G_CONST_RETURN macro.
- Desktop Manager (xfdesktop):
- Fix menu without desktop icons.
- Enable pseudo-transparent backgrounds again.
- Prevent multiple instances of xfdesktop from running (bug #8488).
- Change xfdesktop's menu icon to "applications-other" (bug #8500).
- Keep the image width to something sensible for xfdesktop-settings (bug #7086).
- Use the preferred file manager when opening folders (bug #6537).
- Drop AC_PROG_LIBTOOL for LT_PREREQ and LT_INIT.
- Remove docs and link to wiki.
- Thumbnail desktop icon previews using tumblerd.
- Added a check for GDK_GRAB_INVALID_TIME in xfdesktop_popup_grab_available to mitigate slow menu popups on a right mouse click (bug #7172).
- Add the code required to perform a paste on the on the desktop (bug #3804).
- Display correct trash icon on menu and desktop.
- Fix for shift + drag selections/
- Icon positions are saved/restored per resolution.
- Backdrop image cycling on a timer.
- Modified xfdesktop_icon_view_drag_drop to allow all selected files to drag and drop (bug #5025).
- Fix for moving files instead of copy when src isn't writable.
- Fix typos in the README file.
- Unmounted volumes are semi-transparent.
- Stretch background across all monitors setting (bug #5690).
- Arrange icons on the desktop menu item (bug #2833).
- Single click option to open items on desktop (bug #1797).
- Require libexo and update min requirements in readme.
- Comments in .desktop files are displayed in the tooltip (bug #8509).
- Window Manager (xfwm4):
- Add tiling feature (bug #6648).
- Navigate with arrows in task switcher (bug #4752).
- Show dialogs in settings category.
- Do not cancel pending focus transition and use actual meaningful timestamp to avoid setting focus on wrong window in focus follow mouse (Bug #8323).
- Remove docbook documentation.
- Remove older themes from main package (moved to xfwm4-themes now).
- Add patch for themeable tab-window (bug #8238).
- Use themeable icons for the settings manager and the menu, rework the default icons for the settings manager and the window menu and add SVG version.
- Reintroduce the double-click timeout.
- Drop AC_PROG_LIBTOOL in favor of LT_PREREQ and LT_INIT.
- Simply double click detection logic.
- Add special icons for the button layout in settings.
- Remove some XFlush() calls.
- Upon restart, restore the previous selected workspace.
- Improve horizontal/vertical maximization toggle so that de-maximizing in either direction while fully maximized gives the expected maximization result.
- Change the default theme to differentiate from 4.8.
- Update mouse cursor theme and size dynamically (bug #6854).
- Optimize transients for group evaluation while withdrawing windows.
- Increase timeout for other WM to exit with "--replace",
- Rework focus and fullscreen windows to make xfwm4 simpler and more predictable.
- Get rid of old GNOME 1.x protocol.
- Get rid of legacy fullscreen emulation.
- Theme Engine (gtk-xfce-engine):
- Improved menu theming
- Theme gtk-tooltip (bug #8494).
- Scale radio and check boxes (bug #8456).
- Draw inset border around default button (bug #8454).
- Changed rendering of GtkSpinButton.
- Pixel align checkboxes in the Gtk+-3.0 engine.
- Link against libm (bug #6253).
- Added Gtk+-3.0 theming engine.
- Changed drawing routines to use cairo.
New in Xfce 4.6 Beta 2 (Nov 16, 2008)
- Development tools (xfce4-dev-tools):
- Add support for git (and git-svn) to the xdt-commit script (bug #4491).
- Utility Library (libxfce4util):
- Increment library version to avoid having a 4.6 library version older then the one in 4.4.
- Place G_GNUC_INTERNAL before function declaration for Sun Studio compatibility (bug #4580).
- Updated translations: Jari Rahkonen (fi), Abel Martin (es)
- Widget Library (libxfcegui4):
- add libxfce4kbd for keyboard-shortcut support
- Fix format-string vulnerabilities in 'message_dialog' and 'xfce_confirm'
- Improve SessionManagement support
- Update translations (de, es, pt_BR, eu, ku, cs, id, fi, sq, nb_NO)
- Extension Library (exo):
- Make Preferred Applications dialog pluggable into the new settings manager.
- Menu Library (libxfce4menu):
- Updated translations: ca, da, ku, nb_NO, sq, tr.
- Window Manager (xfwm4):
- Add support for restart style SmRestartImmediately.
- Add support for NET_MOVERESIZE_WINDOW.
- Add client windows to save set to avoid loosing all windows in case of crash.
- Rework the window menu to improve consistency with libwnck menu (bug #4531).
- Simplify management of transients.
- Add support for keyboard shortcuts (bug #4492).
- Add new option do disable blinking of urgent windows.
- Fix possible crash when the dbl_click_action setting gets unset.
- Fix workspaces names not being set in the workspace settings GUI.
- Do not display warnings for values that are not configurable via xfconf (typically theme settings).
- Draw focus in tabwin to make sure the selection is visible even with themes that do not show selected items.
- Add key shortcut for reverse cycling (bug #2778)
- Desktop Manager (xfdesktop):
- Display 'Audio' and 'Video' categories in the multimedia submenu.
- Fix multiple image selection in settings dialog file chooser (bug #4522).
- Panel (xfce4-panel):
- Remove signal disconnect left after the patch of bug #4474.
- Fix xrandr problem so it's possible to change the panel's monitor after a monitor has been removed (bug #3620).
- Panel does not adhere to 'fullwidth' property when using vertical orientation after restarting (bug #4456).
- Implement SmRestartImmediately (bug #4516).
- Reverse the order of the launcher menu when the panel is on the top of the screen (bug #4450).
- Don't spawn zombies (bug #4490).
- Quote commands in the launcher when selecting an application (bug #4507,bug #4549).
- Restore panel workspace names after panel restart (bug #4589).
- Update the tooltip of the clock when it is visible.
- Session Manager (xfce4-session):
- Hook up Help button in settings dialog.
- Implement support for the RestartImmediately restart style hint.
- Fix possible crash with uninitialised GError (bug #4202).
- Link libxfsm against all required libs to avoid link-time errors (bug #4429).
- Make splash engines store their settings in Xfconf.
- Handle the ProcessID SM property properly.
- Add a session editor to the settings dialog.
- Fix compilation on some Linux systems with a broken linux/ioprio.h header (bug #4515).
- Fix a possible crash on amd64 (bug #4510).
- Add support for suspend and hibernate via HAL. Initial patch from Michael Casadevall (bug #2672).
- When restoring clients on startup, be sure to set their current working directory if the cwd was set as a part of their saved state.
- Add SaveSession kiosk capability (bug #2998).
- When a client requests interaction, don't continue to kill all other clients while it's still interacting. And then don't ignore it when it wants to cancel shutdown. Also fixes a similar problem when interaction is requested during a phase 2 save-yourself (bug #4284).
- Settings Manager (xfce4-settings):
- Add an option to disable keyboard settings.
- Default to "Rodent" icon theme instead of "hicolor" (bug #4545)
- Use XfcePosixSignalHandler in xfce4-settings-helper to handle signals, since calling gtk_main_quit() from a signal handler may not be safe.
- Make xfce4-settings-helper connect to the session manager and use the SmRestartImmediately facility to make sure it keeps running. Disable the autostart .desktop file if we were restored from a saved session. Attempt to acquire an X selection on startup to ensure multiple copies of the helper aren't running (bug #4577).
- Configuration Manager (xfconf):
- Add xfconf_channel_new_with_property_base() to restrict a channel to a subset of the property tree.
- Add a dbus message filter to xfconfd that catches dbus daemon disconnect signals and flushes channels before xfconfd gets killed (bug #4487).
- Change libxfconf GObject bindings API slightly to use gulong IDs for each binding to be used when removing bindings. Extend the unbind functions a bit.
- Bump libxfconf interface version due to incompatible change.
- Add libxfconf perl bindings.
- Remove xfconf_channel_remove_property() and xfconf_channel_remove_properties().
- Only treat the XML file under $XDG_CONFIG_HOME as a "user" file, and treat all others as system files. This fixes the problem where Xfce-installed defaults get read *after* the user's config when Xfce is installed to a user-writable prefix (bug #4592).
- Fix build on Cygwin and other platforms that actually care about library link order (bug #4559).
- File Manager (thunar):
- Fix build on MacOS X (bug #4433).
- Don't create Thunar -> thunar symlink on case-insensitive filesystems (bug #4430).
- Add thunar-wallpaper-plugin for setting the wallpaper on xfdesktop >= 4.5.90
- Mixer (xfce4-mixer):
- Use xfconf_channel_reset_property() instead xfconf_channel_remove_property().
- Rename stock icons and install them as application icons to $(pkgdatadir)/icons/hicolor. Remove stock code.
- Change step and page increment size of the panel plugin to 1%.
- Fix license headers to use GPL everywhere.
- Use "multimedia-volume-control" icon in the desktop entry.
- Fix build with GStreamer < 0.10.14.
- Translation updates: Carles Muños Gorriz (ca), Abel Martín (es), Csécsey Károly (hu). Andhika Padmawan (id), Terje Uriansrud (nb_NO) Gökmen Görgen (tr).
- Utilities (xfce-utils):
- Migrate xfce4-session splash settings to xfconf.
- Be sure $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/autostart exists when creating .desktop file to disable xfconf migration script.
- Migrate xfwm4 keyboard shortcuts to new xfconf format.
- Application Finder (xfce4-appfinder):
- Fix runtime warnings and toplevel menu items always being displayed on top of every category.
- Translation updates: Carles Munõz Gorriz (ca), Abel Martín (es), Maximilian Schleiss (fr), Andhika Padmawan (id), Terje Uriansrud (nb_NO)
New in Xfce 4.6 Beta 1 (Oct 15, 2008)
- Xfwm4 can now detect if a program is unresponsive. It will show a dialog to let the user kill it.
- Xfce4-session will start up significantly faster by using parallel startup.
- It is possible to configure the keyboard-layout.
- Toggling event-sounds with libcanberra + gtk 2.14 is now possible (meaning: you can turn them off).