List of changes between Xfce 4.2 and 4.2.1
 


General:
  • Don't use G_INLINE_FUNC in the source code, which fixes several weird build errors.
gtk-xfce-engine:
  • Add new dark theme "Xfce-dusk" contributed by James Golden
  • Improve default theme, enhance contrasts.
  • Rework progress bar drawing.
libxfce4util:
  • Fix a problem with NFS mounted home directories in Solaris (#724)
xfce4-session:
  • Fix RedHat shutdown code (#703)
xfdesktop:
  • fix handling of quoted commands in the desktop menu (#776)
  • fix handling of .desktop files with no Categories list (#776)
  • add "edit menu" button to panel plugin prefs (#554), and ability to change the button tooltip (#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 (#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 (#672)
  • fix "unique" attribute of system menu inclusion
xffm:
  • ensure posix.1-1996 compatibility (#695)
  • fix for crash on opening fstab on solaris (#726)
  • avoid a showstopper gtk-2.4 bug (scaling gdkpixbufs from svg images).
    This is bugzilla #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 (#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)
xfcalendar:
  • remembering of its position (bug #691 and #789)
  • warning box for preventing users to loose their changes (#714 and #738)
  • possibility to show/hide xfcalendar in taskbar, pager and systray (#719)
  • possibility to choose to either show or hide the calendar window when xfcalendar is launched (it remembered before the status when leaving)
xfce4-panel:
  • Save configuration file only on exit
  • Fix double click on inactive item in dialog (#739)
  • 64bit fix
  • Clock applet tweak (#716, hopefully)
xfprint:
  • remove FILE backend and add a print-to-file entry in the printing dialog
  • multiple bugfixes (#816, #817, #818, #820) in the BSD-LPR backend (thanks to Jason Keltz for pointing them out)
xfwm4:
  • Speed improvement with GLX applications
  • Fix Alt-Tab not focusing a window alone on a desktop (#700)
  • Kbd shortcuts don't work when caps lock is enabled (689)
  • Window not showing when compositor is enabled (#694)
  • Documentation on command line option to enable/disable xfwm4 compositor (#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 (#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