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News from Xfce 4.12, part 3

  • February 19, 2015
  • Skunnyk

A bunch of news from the development of Xfce 4.12 !
Since my previous post in november (read it !) , many things have happened.
First, the most awaited news … wait for it… a date has been decided ! 4.12 will released by the last week end of February 2015 ! (yes, 1 week from now)

Now, I would like to draw your attention to a list of threads on the xfce4-dev mailist :

Core Apps :

xfce4-panel :

  • The intelligent panel hiding feature (see my previous post) has been released in 4.11.2 !

xfwm4 :

Oh wow, many commits, such features ! You can read the 4.11.3 announcement here

  • Add titleless maximization feature.
  • Client Side Decoration (CSD) support ! (Compositor need to be enabled). A screenshot with and without on gedit (an application that need CSD) CSD on xfwm4
  • Windows preview in alt+tab (Compositor need to be enabled too). Windows preview in alttab
  • Nice, right ? :)

xfce4-settings :

  • Release of 4.11.4
  • Add touchpad support with libinput (yes, already !)
  • Better monitor and multi monitor support
  • Add Gtk+ theme palettes in the appearance dialog (see screenshot)
  • Add previews for icon themes in appearance settings (see screenshot) Themes and icons preview

xfce4-session :

  • Bugfixes, bugfixes, bugfixes !
  • The “logind runtime detection to support suspend/hibernate” patch has been merged.
  • Release of 4.11.1

thunar :

  • Add support for the GTK 3 bookmarks file,
  • Bugfixes, support for binary file size units
  • Release of 1.6.4

gtk-xfce-engine :

xfce4-dev-tools :

  • Fixes, dependencies update etc
  • Release of 4.11.1

xfconf :

  • Not many exciting changes for this release, mostly translation updates, small fixes and code tweaks.. 4.11.0

Apps :

xfce4-screenshooter :

  • Support of imgur uploads ! Yes ! imgur upload
  • Release of 1.8.2 . Thank gaston !

xfce4-taskmanager :

  • Big cleanup of UI, with new treeview mode, general UI/graph overhaul and lot of bugfixes) xfce4-taskmanager
  • Release of 1.1.0 with all theses changes. Thanks gaston, ochosi and Cavalier

xfce4-power-manager :

Panel Plugins :

Some love for panel plugins, from Harald Judt and Landry Breuil, mostly build/bugfixes and translations updates :

As you can see, xfce development is more active than ever !
So be prepared to be amazed by 4.12 in a few weeks !

Sources :

News from Xfce 4.12, part 3

  • February 19, 2015
  • Skunnyk

A bunch of news from the development of Xfce 4.12 !
Since my previous post in november (read it !) , many things have happened.
First, the most awaited news … wait for it… a date has been decided ! 4.12 will released by the last week end of February 2015 ! (yes, 1 week from now)

Now, I would like to draw your attention to a list of threads on the xfce4-dev mailist :

Core Apps :

xfce4-panel :

  • The intelligent panel hiding feature (see my previous post) has been released in 4.11.2 !

xfwm4 :

Oh wow, many commits, such features ! You can read the 4.11.3 announcement here

  • Add titleless maximization feature.
  • Client Side Decoration (CSD) support ! (Compositor need to be enabled). A screenshot with and without on gedit (an application that need CSD) CSD on xfwm4
  • Windows preview in alt+tab (Compositor need to be enabled too). Windows preview in alttab
  • Nice, right ? :)

xfce4-settings :

  • Release of 4.11.4
  • Add touchpad support with libinput (yes, already !)
  • Better monitor and multi monitor support
  • Add Gtk+ theme palettes in the appearance dialog (see screenshot)
  • Add previews for icon themes in appearance settings (see screenshot) Themes and icons preview

xfce4-session :

  • Bugfixes, bugfixes, bugfixes !
  • The “logind runtime detection to support suspend/hibernate” patch has been merged.
  • Release of 4.11.1

thunar :

  • Add support for the GTK 3 bookmarks file,
  • Bugfixes, support for binary file size units
  • Release of 1.6.4

gtk-xfce-engine :

xfce4-dev-tools :

  • Fixes, dependencies update etc
  • Release of 4.11.1

xfconf :

  • Not many exciting changes for this release, mostly translation updates, small fixes and code tweaks.. 4.11.0

Apps :

xfce4-screenshooter :

  • Support of imgur uploads ! Yes ! imgur upload
  • Release of 1.8.2 . Thank gaston !

xfce4-taskmanager :

  • Big cleanup of UI, with new treeview mode, general UI/graph overhaul and lot of bugfixes) xfce4-taskmanager
  • Release of 1.1.0 with all theses changes. Thanks gaston, ochosi and Cavalier

xfce4-power-manager :

Panel Plugins :

Some love for panel plugins, from Harald Judt and Landry Breuil, mostly build/bugfixes and translations updates :

As you can see, xfce development is more active than ever !
So be prepared to be amazed by 4.12 in a few weeks !

Sources :

News from Xfce 4.12, part 3

  • February 19, 2015
  • Skunnyk

A bunch of news from the development of Xfce 4.12 !
Since my previous post in november (read it !) , many things have happened.
First, the most awaited news ... wait for it... a date has been decided ! 4.12 will released by the last week end of February 2015 ! (yes, 1 week from now)

Now, I would like to draw your attention to a list of threads on the xfce4-dev mailist :

Core Apps :

xfce4-panel :

  • The intelligent panel hiding feature (see my previous post) has been released in 4.11.2 !

xfwm4 :

Oh wow, many commits, such features ! You can read the 4.11.3 announcement here

  • Add titleless maximization feature.
  • Client Side Decoration (CSD) support ! (Compositor need to be enabled). A screenshot with and without on gedit (an application that need CSD) CSD on xfwm4
  • Windows preview in alt+tab (Compositor need to be enabled too). Windows preview in alttab
  • Nice, right ? :)

xfce4-settings :

  • Release of 4.11.4
  • Add touchpad support with libinput (yes, already !)
  • Better monitor and multi monitor support
  • Add Gtk+ theme palettes in the appearance dialog (see screenshot)
  • Add previews for icon themes in appearance settings (see screenshot) Themes and icons preview

xfce4-session :

  • Bugfixes, bugfixes, bugfixes !
  • The "logind runtime detection to support suspend/hibernate" patch has been merged.
  • Release of 4.11.1

thunar :

  • Add support for the GTK 3 bookmarks file,
  • Bugfixes, support for binary file size units
  • Release of 1.6.4

gtk-xfce-engine :

xfce4-dev-tools :

  • Fixes, dependencies update etc
  • Release of 4.11.1

xfconf :

  • Not many exciting changes for this release, mostly translation updates, small fixes and code tweaks.. 4.11.0

Apps :

xfce4-screenshooter :

  • Support of imgur uploads ! Yes ! imgur upload
  • Release of 1.8.2 . Thank gaston !

xfce4-taskmanager :

  • Big cleanup of UI, with new treeview mode, general UI/graph overhaul and lot of bugfixes) xfce4-taskmanager
  • Release of 1.1.0 with all theses changes. Thanks gaston, ochosi and Cavalier

xfce4-power-manager :

Panel Plugins :

Some love for panel plugins, from Harald Judt and Landry Breuil, mostly build/bugfixes and translations updates :

As you can see, xfce development is more active than ever !
So be prepared to be amazed by 4.12 in a few weeks !

Sources :