Xfce 4.4 beta 2 (4.3.90.2) Changelog
Utility Library (libxfce4util):
- Fix deletion of entries from XfceRc objects.
- Reduce the number of PLT symbols.
- Translatable license texts.
- Plug memory leaks.
Widget Library (libxfcegui4):
- Fix bug with desktop layout on x86_64.
- Fix bug in system tray with some apps (e.g. krusader, bug #1836).
- New titled dialog widget, to use for the settings dialogs.
Extension Library (exo):
Window Manager (xfwm4):
- Get rid of libXpm dependency by implementing an XPM loader with color symbol substitution.
- Add support for svg, png, bmp, gif, jpg file formats for themes components.
- Embedded compositor can be enabled/disabled on the fly from the WM tweaks plugin without restarting the WM.
- Transparency of inactive windows configurable through the WM tweaks plugin.
- Automatically unredirect fullscreen override windows, fixing the performance penalty of using unredirected rendering.
- Add host name to window title when running apps from other hosts.
- Rework default theme, add new themes (Moheli, Daloa).
- Clean up modifer code in shortcut editor.
- Lot of optimizations, including in the embedded compositor.
- Lot of bug fixes.
Window Manager Themes (xfwm4-themes):
- Adjust various themes for the latest xfwm4 version.
Desktop Manager (xfdesktop):
- Filter out KDE screensaver files from the menu (bug #1928).
- Add a remote launcher to popup panel menu, triggered by a shortcut.
- Cleaned up xfce4-menueditor: Use XfceTitledDialog, fixed DnD, use GObject classes.
- Try to automatically mount unmounted removable volumes when they are openend.
- Fix crashes when removable volumes don't have mount points associated with them.
- XDirectSave target support for the desktop.
- Add support for dropping web links from Firefox (and other browsers) on the desktop.
- Add user feedback when a file already exists (i.e., a "do you want to overwrite?" dialog) instead of just failing silently.
- Tell the session manager to log out if the user tries to "close" the desktop window.
- Transparency for the icon label text background, configurable via GTK style properties.
- Fix menu panel plugin menu positioning when using floating panels.
- Many desktop icon painting performance improvements.
- Use exo-desktop-item-edit to create and edit launchers and links.
- Don't show 'eject' menu item if a removable volume is not really ejectable.
- Attempt to create ~/Desktop/ if it does not exist (only if the user turns on file/launcher icons).
Panel (xfce4-panel):
- Set NET_WM_STRUT for compatibility with former specs.
Session Manager (xfce4-session):
- Update dialogs to use the new XfceTitledDialog.
- Properly handle OnlyShowIn and NotShowIn in the autostart editor.
- Run discard command when client terminates unexpectedly.
- Use the new XfceTitledDialog.
Settings Manager (xfce-mcs-manager):
- Restart xfce-mcs-manager instead of trying to unload/reload plugins when SIGUSR1 is received, to avoid possible crashes.
- Use the new XfceTitledDialog.
Settings Manager Plugins (xfce-mcs-plugins):
- Keyboard Accessibility (sticky keys, slow keys, bound keys and mouse keys).
- Fix modifiers detection in shortcut editor.
- Use the new XfceTitledDialog.
File Manager (thunar):
Printing Helper (xfprint):
- Use GtkIconTheme instead of deprecated XfceIconTheme
GTK theme engine (gtk-xfce-engine-2):
- Change color of active window title.
Utilities (xfce-utils):
- Set XDG_DATA_DIRS in startup script for people who install Xfce in a different root location from gtk+ itself.
Terminal Emulator (terminal):
- A few performance improvements.
- Various usability improvements.
Text Editor (mousepad):
- Fix segfault on file save on x86_64.
- Fix compilation errors.
Archive Manager (xarchiver):
- First release as part of Xfce.
- Integration with thunar-archive-plugin.
- Increased speed! Xarchiver is faster than ever when opening archives.
- Added Drag and Drop from and to Xarchiver window by using the XDS protocol.
- Added the (in)famous cmd-line switches; see xarchiver -? for details.
- Added a Stop button who cancels the current operation or you can use the ESC key.
- Added the ability to test archives.
- Added an archive properties window showing useful info about the archive and its content.
- Added two menu entries in the Action menu to select or unselect the files in the treeview.
- Added support for ISO images (opening, extract and view only).
- "Row selection while you type" ability. Useful when you have thousand of files inside the archive.
- The extract dialog now "remembers" the last used extraction path.
- The extract dialog automatically sets the destination directory as the archive path.
- The enter key can be also used with the extract dialog.
- You can use accelerators (keyboard shortcuts) for almost the menu entries.
- The Del key can also be used instead of the Delete button on the toolbar.
- Removed the confirmation dialog when opening bzip2 and gzip compressed files.
- Added a confirmation dialog when deleting files from the archive.
- Finally fixed bug randomly causing rar and arj output badly appears.
- Finally fixed bug randomly causing tar.bz2 and tar.gz archives to be corrupted when deleting files from them.
- Fixed some memory leaks but surely someone is left :).
- Fixed bug causing filenames with spaces inside the archive not being viewed.
- Fixed bug causing filenames with spaces in arj archives appear truncated in Xarchiver window.
- Fixed a bug preventing the file dialog to select more than one file when adding to arj archives.
- Fixed progress bar not appearing when adding only one big file to an archive.
- Fixed a bug causing Xarchiver to hang when opening empty zip archives.
- Fixed a bug causing Xarchiver to exit when opening a not supported archive directly from the command line.
- Fixed a bug preventing Xarchiver to compress files with bzip2 or gzip.