Xfce 4.2.1 Changelog

General:

• Don't use G_INLINE_FUNC in the source code, which fixes several weird build errors.

Libraries (lib*):

• Libxfce4util: Fix a problem with NFS mounted home directories in Solaris (bug #724)

Window Manager (xfwm4):

• Speed improvement with GLX applications
• Fix Alt-Tab not focusing a window alone on a desktop (bug #700)
• Kbd shortcuts don't work when caps lock is enabled (bug #689)
• Window not showing when compositor is enabled (bug #694)
• Documentation on command line option to enable/disable xfwm4 compositor (bug #611)
• Improve caching of frame elements
• Fix default theme for dark gtk themes (such as Xfce-dusk)
• Various focusing issues fixed
• Optimizations of move/resize operations (bug #761)
• Auto maximize windows larger that screen size.
• Be more tolerant with apps manipulating frameless windows.
• Focus window on top of stack on workspace switch if no other window is eligible for focus.
• Fix uninitialized default layer for fullscreen legacy apps.
• Updated translations : he, ja, pt_br, zh_CN, fi, lt, ko

Desktop Manager (xfdesktop):

• Fix handling of quoted commands in the desktop menu (bug #776)
• Fix handling of .desktop files with no Categories list (bug #776)
• Add "edit menu" button to panel plugin prefs (bug #554), and ability to change the button tooltip (bug #764)
• Fix broken panel plugin behavior when trying to track the default desktop menu. there's a new option to either follow the default menu, or use a static menu file (bug #778)
• Fix bug where xfdesktop would crash if the windowlist was opened, then a window was destroyed, and then that window was selected from the list (bug #672)
• Fix "unique" attribute of system menu inclusion

Panel (xfce4-panel):

• Save configuration file only on exit
• Fix double click on inactive item in dialog (bug #739)
• 64bit fix
• Clock applet tweak (bug #716, hopefully)

Settings Manager (xfce-mcs-manager):

• Fix RedHat shutdown code (bug #703)

File Manager (xffm):

• Ensure posix.1-1996 compatibility (bug #695)
• Fix for crash on opening fstab on solaris (bug #726)
• Avoid a showstopper gtk-2.4 bug (scaling gdkpixbufs from svg images). This is bugzilla bug #751 report. Not all gtk showstopper bugs from svg can be avoided. In particular with office/mobile_phone_01.svg. This file will also crash rox
• Allow relative paths for icon resolution (xfce4-modules)
• Validate utf error messages (bug #737)
• Don't quote paths that are already quoted.
• Change smb-share icon to proper icon
• Fix borked overwrite warning dialog message
• Bug fixes for keyboardnavigation to close bug #795
• Separate remove and paste button in toolbar to avoid confusing the remove confirmation dialog with the overwrite confirmation dialog
• Fix translation problems in several languages, including brazilian-portuguese
• Fill in some missing spanish translation strings
• Fix for bug #524 (crashing xffm by mounting cdrom and trying to open it in the other treeview before mount is complete)

Printing Helper (xfprint):

• Remove FILE backend and add a print-to-file entry in the printing dialog
• Multiple bugfixes (bug #816, bug #817, bug #818, bug #820) in the BSD-LPR backend (thanks to Jason Keltz for pointing them out)

GTK theme engine (gtk-xfce-engine-2):

• Add new dark theme "Xfce-dusk" contributed by James Golden
• Improve default theme, enhance contrasts.
• Rework progress bar drawing.

Calendar and Appointments (xfcalendar):

• Remembering of its position (bug #691 and bug #789)
• Warning box for preventing users to loose their changes (bug #714 and bug #738)
• Possibility to show/hide xfcalendar in taskbar, pager and systray (bug #719)
• possibility to choose to either show or hide the calendar window when xfcalendar is launched (it remembered before the status when leaving)