What's New in Xfce

ToZ · 2015-04-30 22:03:01

ANNOUNCE: xfce4-equake-plugin 1.3.7 released

What is xfce4-equake-plugin?
============================

Equake Xfce is a panel plugin for the Xfce Panel which monitors earthquakes and displays an update each time a new earthquake occurs.

Website:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/equake/

Release notes for 1.3.7
=======================
Fixed rare and random, but persistent bug, which could cause a crash when the last quotation mark of the "place" CSV field was cut off, due to corrupted data.

Screenies:

ToZ · 2015-05-05 18:41:47

ANNOUNCE: thunar 1.6.8 released

What is thunar?
===============

Thunar is a modern file manager for the Xfce Desktop Environment. It has been designed from the ground up to be fast and easy-to-use. Its user interface is clean and intuitive, and does not include any confusing or useless options. Thunar is fast and responsive with a good start up time and directory load time. Thunar is accessible using Assistive Technologies and is fully standards compliant.

Website:
http://thunar.xfce.org/

Release notes for 1.6.8
=======================
This release tries to fix a few more minor bugs, some introduced in recent versions, some more long-standing. Thanks to the contributors and translators for their work.

- Watch for CHANGES_DONE_HINT instead of CHANGED and ATTRIBUTE_CHANGED (bug #8377)
- Shortcut view: Fix "selection in selection" graphical bug when renaming shortcut
- Fix broken shortcut renaming (bug #11885)
- Unescape URIs in the shortcut view (bug #10831)
- Fix compiler warning because of missing curly braces
- Fix compilation error because of wrong variable name
- Fix unescaping of local paths in path entry (bug #8190)
- Fix escaping and unescaping URI in path entry (bug #8910)
- Let the tree view keep the focus when clicking on an item (bug #11863)
- Fix switching to the 10th tab via <alt>-<0> keyboard shortcut
- Fix removal of a directory wrongly affecting the current tab (bug #10981)
- Keep the scroll position when restoring the file selection
- Restore selection only when rows-reordered signal is received (bug #11855)
- For folders copied always append "copy #" to the end of their names (bug #11862)
- Update F5 binding for new ThunarWindow::reload signal
- Do not perform the complete folder reload in idle (bug #11849)
- Coverity CID 60623: Unused value
- Coverity CID 60621: Missing return statement
- Coverity CID 60620: Explicit null dereferenced
- Coverity CID 60619: Explicit null dereferenced
- Coverity CID 60617: Unchecked return value
- Remove unused variable in thunar_standard_view_set_history
- Remove startup notification dependencies (bug #11837)
- Translation updates: Galician, German, Lithuanian

ToZ · 2015-05-12 10:25:28

ANNOUNCE: xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin 0.2.3 released

What is xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin?
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Xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin is a panel plugin for controlling an audio
output volume of the PulseAudio mixer. The volume can be adjusted using
keyboard shortcuts, mouse wheel, a slider in a popup menu, or via a
linked external audio mixer tool.

Website:
http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/panel- … dio-plugin

Release notes for 0.2.3
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* Corrected copyright and author list
* Added OSD notifications
* >100% audio volume is now allowed (only when using a volume slider)

Mark7 · 2015-05-13 07:33:27

Damn. I was wondering why everything seemed quieter since I switched to using the pulseaudio-plugin.

Now I know tongue

ToZ · 2015-05-16 19:27:23

ANNOUNCE: xfwm4 4.12.3 released

What is xfwm4?
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Xfce's window manager.

Release notes for 4.12.3
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- configure: check for exo-csource (Bug 11870)
- focus: Ignore zero timestamp from s/n (Bug 11822)
- events: do not monitor SubstructureNotifyMask (Bug 11893)
- Fix compiler warnings

ToZ · 2015-05-17 12:07:24

ANNOUNCE: xfburn 0.5.4 released

What is xfburn?
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A simple CD/DVD/BD burning application which supports erasing, formatting of discs; burning of iso images, audio, and data compositions.

Release notes for 0.5.4
=======================
Another year, another release! I think the distros have held on to the old gstreamer long enough...

Not much new then, but important to release anyway!

- Some autoconf modernization
- Use gstreamer 1.0 api
- Restore broken icons

ToZ · 2015-05-17 12:11:47

ANNOUNCE: thunar 1.6.9 released

What is thunar?
===============
Thunar is a modern file manager for the Xfce Desktop Environment. It has been designed from the ground up to be fast and easy-to-use. Its user interface is clean and intuitive, and does not include any confusing or useless options. Thunar is fast and responsive with a good start up time and directory load time. Thunar is accessible using Assistive Technologies and is fully standards compliant.

Release notes for 1.6.9
=======================
This release contains fixes for the trash bin status, a few more file info reload fixes and improves the tree view. The checkbox "Set as default application" in the chooser dialog is now disabled by default. Building of the HTML API reference is deactivated for now because it is in a bit of a desolate state and started causing build errors.

- Fix ThunarBulkRename script not supporting spaces (bug #9713)
- Use "Name" column for drag & drop instead of first column (bug #11905)
- Update the path entry icon when current file changes
- Revert changes for restoring the trash in the session client (bug #9513)
- Fix loading the trash bin status at startup (bug #9513)
- Turn off building gtk-docs API reference
- Fix cppcheck warning about uninitialized variable
- Disable "Set as default application" by default in the chooser dialog
- Remember chosen application in the chooser dialog as last used
- Remember the last used application when opening files
- Fix reload when file is replaced with directory of the same name
- Do listen for G_FILE_MONITOR_EVENT_ATTRIBUTE_CHANGED (bug #11896)
- Fix comments for toggle-menubar
- Allow opening by middle-click in tree view only for mounted devices and resources
- Keep selection in original tree view when middle-clicking for new tab/window
- Keep path selected after unmounting a device via KEY_Left
- Unmount device if collapsing a collapsed device tree with KEY_Left in the tree view
- Fix wrong network icon shown in tree view
- Fix tree view opening mounted devices in new tab
- Use only open selection instead of open action with KEY_Up and KEY_Down
- Fix assertion when hitting KEY_Left on a top-level item in the tree view
- Revert workaround for desktop toplevel item in the tree view
- Always select the proper toplevel item in the thunar tree view
- Unescape URI in history error message
- Remove unmounted files from history when going back or forward
- Translation updates: Basque, French, Galician

ToZ · 2015-05-17 12:14:16

ANNOUNCE: xfdesktop 4.12.2 released

What is xfdesktop?
==================
Xfce's desktop manager.

Release notes for 4.12.2
========================
Stable release of xfdesktop for Xfce 4.12.

* Bug fixes:
- Optimized sorting wallpapers (Bug #11817)
- Don't sort the image list when randomly cycling (Bug #11817)
- Don't load an image list unless we're cycling (Bug #11817)
- Allow dragging desktop launchers to the panel (Bug #2794)
- Load emblem-unreadable if necessary
- Bail out when a negative value was calculated for row/col. (Bug #11782)
- Hide empty comment line in icon tooltip
- Fix build error (Bug #11778)
- Ignore shadow blur radius when calculating icon text box
- Prefer "_NETSCAPE_URL" over "text/uri-list" (Bug #9632)
- Drop explicit LibSM check (Bug #11744)
- Preserve order when moving multiple icons (Bug #11195)
- Drop warning when D-Bus timeout error occurs (Bug #11283)
- Add default wallpaper folder to file chooser (Bug #11715)

ToZ · 2015-05-23 00:09:21

ANNOUNCE: thunar 1.6.10 released

What is thunar?
===============
Thunar is a modern file manager for the Xfce Desktop Environment. It has been designed from the ground up to be fast and easy-to-use. Its user interface is clean and intuitive, and does not include any confusing or useless options. Thunar is fast and responsive with a good start up time and directory load time. Thunar is accessible using Assistive Technologies and is fully standards compliant.

Release notes for 1.6.10
========================
This release fixes possible crashes and 100% cpu load issues that could occur when reloading file information and the trash. It also contains build system cleanups. The trash state should work fine now on all systems. A lot of thanks to the people who helped with debugging and testing to fix the trash issue.

- Do not track thunar/thunar-marshal.{c,h}
- Remove Makefile and Makefile.in files when running distclean
- Remove subversion $Id$ tags
- Really fix trash state at startup (bug #9513 and #11913)
- Use proper return type for thunar_file_reload (bug #11913)
- Revert "Fix loading the trash bin status at startup (bug #9513)"

Jristz · 2015-05-25 20:15:06

Thunar has reached 10 minvers! or this mean is so active or so buggy...
and I hope to be the first and thanks for the info.

ToZ · 2015-05-25 22:52:53

ANNOUNCE: exo 0.10.5 released

What is exo?
============
Exo is an Xfce library targeted at application development. It contains various custom widgets and APIs extending the functionality of GLib and GTK+. It also ships utilities for defining preferred applications, mounting storage devices and more.

Release notes for 0.10.5
========================
- Added --disable-debug to distcheck rules, this will allow building with autogen.sh --disable-debug on newer systems (bug #11556)
- Do not use x-scheme-handler/file mimetype (bug #7257)
- Escape URIs for exo-open (bug #9912)
- File descriptor was never opened if < 0 (CID #85387)
- Reverted patches that broke window focus on startup (bug #11743)
- Fix StartupNotify (bug #9570)
- Fix implicit declaration of function 'xfce_spawn_on_screen' (bug #11655)
- Translation updates: Basque, Greek, Lithuanian, Spanish, Swedish

ANNOUNCE: exo 0.10.6 released

Release notes for 0.10.6
========================
This release fixes a single regression introduced in 0.10.5 which could leave open file descriptors for potential error states:
- Close fd with error state goto (CID 30797), extension of previous fix "File descriptor was never opened if < 0 (CID #85387)"

ToZ · 2015-05-25 22:55:59

ANNOUNCE: xfce4-power-manager 1.5.0 released

What is xfce4-power-manager?
============================
This software is a power manager for the Xfce desktop, Xfce power manager manages the power sources on the computer and the devices that can be controlled to reduce their power consumption (such as LCD brightness level, monitor sleep). In addition, xfce4-power-manager provides a set of freedesktop-compliant DBus interfaces to inform other applications about current power level so that they can adjust their power consumption, and it provides the inhibit interface which allows applications to prevent automatic sleep actions via the power manager; as an example, the operating system’s package manager should make use of this interface while it is performing update operations.

Release notes for 1.5.0
=======================
New development release of xfce4-power-manager. This release marks the transition to several new technologies. Consequently we're looking forward to
more testers (and supposedly bugreports) with this first release.

* Port to Gtk3 (Eric, Simon)
* Port to gdbus (Peter)
* Drop LXDE panel plugin
* Bumped dependencies:
- UPower>= 0.99
- Gtk3 >= 3.14
- libxfce4ui-2

* Miscellaneous improvements:
- The settings dialog has been ported to GtkApplication
- The panel plugin now uses UPower's icon names directly and is consequently compatible with all major icon themes out of the box
- The panel plugin uses symbolic icons
- The systray icon uses colored icons
- The settings dialog now has a unique icon name (xfce4-power-manager-settings)

* And finally some bug fixes:
- Fix for panel icon on Desktop systems (Bug #11840)
- Never use symbolic icons for the systray (Bug #11756)
- Look up the schema for light-locker's settings recursively (Bug #11488)
- Don't crash when UPower returns "" for the icon-name (Bug #11756)

* Translation updates:
Asturian, Chinese (China), Chinese (Taiwan), Czech, French, German, Greek, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Korean, Lithuanian, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazilian), Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Ukrainian.

Screenies:

Note: I don't have light-locker installed to be able to show the "Security" tab.

MountainDewManiac · 2015-05-26 05:41:14

ToZ wrote:

ANNOUNCE: xfce4-power-manager 1.5.0 released

I like the way they changed things so that the settings for both AC and battery power are side-by-side now instead of in separate areas.

Regards,
MDM

GameCodingNinja · 2015-05-29 20:36:17

I'd use mousepad if it just supported tabs and displayed text in different colors like gedit.

ToZ · 2015-05-29 23:05:45

GameCodingNinja wrote:

I'd use mousepad if it just supported tabs and displayed text in different colors like gedit.

It does:

What version of mousepad are you using?

ToZ · 2015-06-06 12:15:10

Fw: ANNOUNCE: xfce4-power-manager 1.5.1 released

What is xfce4-power-manager?
============================
This software is a power manager for the Xfce desktop, Xfce power manager manages the power sources on the computer and the devices that can be controlled to reduce their power consumption (such as LCD brightness level, monitor sleep). In addition, xfce4-power-manager provides a set of freedesktop-compliant DBus interfaces to inform other applications about current power level so that they can adjust their power consumption, and it provides the inhibit interface which allows applications to prevent automatic sleep actions via the power manager; as an example, the operating system’s package manager should make use of this interface while it is performing update operations.

Release notes for 1.5.1
=======================
New development release of xfce4-power-manager.

* New feature:
- Hidden option to show percentage and/or remaining time in the panel plugin (Bug #4499)
To use it, create the property /xfce4-power-manager/show-panel-label as INT
in the channel xfce4-power-manager. The possible settings are 0 (don't show
label), 1 (percentage), 2 (remaining time) and 3 (remaining time and
percentage).

* Bugfixes:
- Prevent a crash on device update (Bug #11932)
- Fix wrong panel plugin button size (bug #11898)
- Fix loading of icons for plugin and systray

* Translation updates:
Swedish, Turkish.

MountainDewManiac · 2015-06-06 21:17:14

It'd be nice if the battery percentage (I'm not real interested in "time remaining," since my laptop is not always doing the same tasks at the same screen brightness with the same CPU usage/speed, so it's about as accurate (methinks) as the nearest palm reader) was just a straightforward option in the applet's preferences.

It'd also be nice if I could make it display an outline of a battery with the percentage inside, instead of (IMHO) having to waste space by displaying both a percentage and a separate graphical representation of the battery. If the percentage shows 100%, I don't need a picture of a full battery; if the percentage is 50%, I don't need to see a picture of a ½-full one, either. Plus, if I could place the percentage inside the battery, not having anything else but the percentage and the outline would make the percentage much more readable.

Regards,
MDM

fabioxxxx · 2015-06-12 17:06:25

will the new version have a interface for global proxy settings ?

i know you can set the proxy manually but it's not very user friendly.

ToZ · 2015-06-21 13:13:45

ANNOUNCE: xfce4-power-manager 1.5.2 released

What is xfce4-power-manager?
============================
This software is a power manager for the Xfce desktop, Xfce power manager manages the power sources on the computer and the devices that can be controlled to reduce their power consumption (such as LCD brightness level, monitor sleep). In addition, xfce4-power-manager provides a set of freedesktop-compliant DBus interfaces to inform other applications about current power level so that they can adjust their power consumption, and it provides the inhibit interface which allows applications to prevent automatic sleep actions via the power manager; as an example, the operating system’s package manager should make use of this interface while it is performing update operations.

Release notes for 1.5.2
=======================
New development release of xfce4-power-manager.
* New feature:
- Use XScreenSaverSuspend and XTestFakeKeyEvent (Bug #11083)
We now suspend the screensaver when we're in presentation mode
or something has requested an screensaver inhibit lock.
* Bugfixes:
- Set label so we don't crash (Bug #11967)
- Make the settings-app icon 256px for the about dialog
- Bring back the about dialog (Bug #11982)
* Translation updates:
Bulgarian (bg), Croatian (hr), Dutch (Flemish) (nl), English (Australia) (en_AU), French (fr), Korean (ko), Lithuanian (lt), Spanish (Castilian) (es).

Screenies:
1. Presentation Mode Enabled:

2. Debug statements when presentation mode enabled:

3. Return of the About menu option:

ToZ · 2015-06-24 01:52:39

A couple of small bug fix/maintenance releases:

ANNOUNCE: xfce4-weather-plugin 0.8.6 released

What is xfce4-weather-plugin?
=============================
A weather plugin for the Xfce desktop environment

Release notes for 0.8.6
=======================
This release brings a lot of translation updates, small fixes to the build system and a small bug fix for displaying Fahrenheit temperatures.
A lot of thanks to the contributors and translators for their improvements to the plugin!
- Add ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS to Makefile.am
- Remove negative sign when temperature is rounded to 0 degree Fahrenheit (bug #11604)
- Fix IT_PROG_INTLTOOL warning
- Translation updates: Asturian, Bulgarian, French, Greek, Icelandic, Lithuanian, Norwegian Bokmal, Norwegian Nynorsk, Russian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish

ANNOUNCE: xfce4-cpufreq-plugin 1.1.2 released
What is xfce4-cpufreq-plugin?
=============================
xfce4-cpufreq-plugin shows the current CPU frequency and governor in the panel, and the frequencies and governors and more information for all CPUs in a separate overview. Note that at the moment, it does not permit to change any of these CPU settings.

Release notes for 1.1.2
=======================
This is a simple maintenance release.
- Fix IT_PROG_INTLTOOL warning
- Translation updates: Basque, Bulgarian, Greek, Lithuanian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish

ToZ · 2015-06-24 22:07:18

ANNOUNCE: xfce4-notes-plugin 1.8.1 released

What is xfce4-notes-plugin?
===========================
Xfce4 Notes Plugin provides a quick way to paste text, to write down a list of things, to leave a note to a friend, or whatever is common to do with Post-It's.

Release notes for 1.8.1
=======================
- Provide graphics tabs/ for gtk-2.0 theme
- Fit panel button inside a single panel row (for deskbar mode)
Minor fixes for the last 1.8.0 release, sorry for the delay, time was a bit complicated to find. Enjoy!

ToZ · 2016-01-24 14:50:12

This one's kind of neat. Eric added a commit today that brings animated desktop wallpaper (youtube) to Xfce (via animated gifs).

I should also mention that there has been alot of ongoing xfdashoard development.

freelikegnu · 2016-02-04 03:31:04

Awesome thread! It's great to see how XFCE is evolving. Thank you!

Jristz · 2016-03-18 06:55:18

So far how is the gtk3 porting soing?

ToZ · 2016-03-18 10:04:44

Jristz wrote:

So far how is the gtk3 porting soing?

Progress updates can be found at the bottom of this page. Looks like still a ways to go.

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