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Development Release: Exo 0.11.4

  • July 12, 2017
  • Sean Davis

After quite some time, the first release candidate for the Exo 0.12.x series is ready for some serious testing!

What’s New in Exo 0.11.4?

This release completes the GTK+ 3 port and can now be used for GTK+ 2 or 3 Xfce application development.

New Features

Bug Fixes

  • Removed --disable-debug flag from make distcheck (Xfce #11556)

Icons

  • Replaced non-standard gnome-* icons
  • Replaced non-existent “missing-image” icon

Deprecations

  • Dropped gdk_window_process_updates for GTK+ 3.22
  • Replaced gdk_pixbuf_new_from_inline usage
  • Replaced gdk_screen_* usage
  • Replaced gtk_style_context_get_background_color usage
  • Removed warnings for gtk_dialog_get_action_area and GioScheduler

Translation Updates

Arabic, Catalan, Chinese (China), Danish, Dutch, French, German, Hebrew, Indonesian, Korean, Lithuanian, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Spanish, Swedish

Downloads

The latest version of Exo can always be downloaded from the Xfce archives. Grab version 0.11.4 from the below link.

http://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/exo/0.11/exo-0.11.4.tar.bz2

  • SHA-256: 54fc6d26eff4ca0525aed8484af822ac561cd26adad4a2a13a282b2d9f349d84
  • SHA-1: 49e0fdf6899eea7aa1050055c7fe2dcddd0d1d7a
  • MD5: 7ad88a19ccb4599fd46b53b04325552c

Development Release: Xfce Settings 4.13.1

  • June 19, 2017
  • Sean Davis

The second release of the GTK+ 3 powered Xfce Settings is now ready for testing (and possibly general use).  Check it out!

What’s New?

This release now requires xfconf 4.13+.

New Features

  • Appearance Settings: New configuration option for default monospace font
  • Display Settings: Improved support for embedded DisplayPort connectors

Bug Fixes

  • Display Settings: Fixed drawing of displays, was hit and miss before, now its guaranteed
  • Display Settings: Fixed drag-n-drop functionality, the grab area occupied the space below the drawn displays
  • Display Settings (Minimal): The mini dialog now runs as a single instance, which should help with some display drivers (Xfce #11169)
  • Fixed linking to dbus-glib with xfconf 4.13+ (Xfce #13633)

Deprecations

  • Resolved gtk_menu_popup and gdk_error_trap_pop deprecations
  • Ignoring GdkScreen and GdkCairo deprecations for now. Xfce shares this code with GNOME and Mate, and they have not found a resolution yet.

Code Quality

  • Several indentation fixes
  • Dropped duplicate drawing code, elimination another deprecation in the process

Translation Updates

Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (China), Chinese (Taiwan), Croatian, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hebrew, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Korean, Lithuanian, Malay, Norwegian Bokmal, Norwegian Nynorsk, Occitan, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Ukrainian

Downloads

The latest version of Xfce Settings can always be downloaded from the Xfce archives. Grab version 4.13.1 from the below link.

http://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/xfce4-settings/4.13/xfce4-settings-4.13.1.tar.bz2

  • SHA-256: 01b9e9df6801564b28f3609afee1628228cc24c0939555f60399e9675d183f7e
  • SHA-1: 9ffdf3b7f6fad24f4efd1993781933a2a18a6922
  • MD5: 300d317dd2bcbb0deece1e1943cac368

Development Release: Xfce Settings 4.13.1

  • June 19, 2017
  • Sean Davis

The second release of the GTK+ 3 powered Xfce Settings is now ready for testing (and possibly general use).  Check it out!

What’s New?

This release now requires xfconf 4.13+.

New Features

  • Appearance Settings: New configuration option for default monospace font
  • Display Settings: Improved support for embedded DisplayPort connectors

Bug Fixes

  • Display Settings: Fixed drawing of displays, was hit and miss before, now its guaranteed
  • Display Settings: Fixed drag-n-drop functionality, the grab area occupied the space below the drawn displays
  • Display Settings (Minimal): The mini dialog now runs as a single instance, which should help with some display drivers (Xfce #11169)
  • Fixed linking to dbus-glib with xfconf 4.13+ (Xfce #13633)

Deprecations

  • Resolved gtk_menu_popup and gdk_error_trap_pop deprecations
  • Ignoring GdkScreen and GdkCairo deprecations for now. Xfce shares this code with GNOME and Mate, and they have not found a resolution yet.

Code Quality

  • Several indentation fixes
  • Dropped duplicate drawing code, elimination another deprecation in the process

Translation Updates

Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (China), Chinese (Taiwan), Croatian, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hebrew, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Korean, Lithuanian, Malay, Norwegian Bokmal, Norwegian Nynorsk, Occitan, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Ukrainian

Downloads

The latest version of Xfce Settings can always be downloaded from the Xfce archives. Grab version 4.13.1 from the below link.

http://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/xfce4-settings/4.13/xfce4-settings-4.13.1.tar.bz2

  • SHA-256: 01b9e9df6801564b28f3609afee1628228cc24c0939555f60399e9675d183f7e
  • SHA-1: 9ffdf3b7f6fad24f4efd1993781933a2a18a6922
  • MD5: 300d317dd2bcbb0deece1e1943cac368

Development Release: Exo 0.11.3

  • June 18, 2017
  • Sean Davis

Xfce 4.14 development has been picking up steam in the past few months.  With the release of Exo 0.11.3, things are only going to get steamier.  

What is Exo?

Exo is an Xfce library for application development. It was introduced years ago to aid the development of Xfce applications.  It’s not used quite as heavily these days, but you’ll still find Exo components in Thunar (the file manager) and Xfce Settings Manager.

Exo provides custom widgets and APIs that extend the functionality of GLib and GTK+ (both 2 and 3).  It also provides the mechanisms for defining preferred applications in Xfce.

What’s New in Exo 0.11.3?

New Features

  • exo-csource: Added a new --output flag to write the generated output to a file (Xfce #12901)
  • exo-helper: Added a new --query flag to determine the preferred application (Xfce #8579)

Build Changes

  • Build requirements were updated.  Exo now requires GTK+ 2.24, GTK 3.20, GLib 2.42, and libxfce4ui 4.12
  • Building GTK+ 3 libraries is no longer optional
  • Default debug setting is now “yes” instead of “full”. This means that builds will not fail if there are deprecated GTK+ symbols (and there are plenty).

Bug Fixes

  • Discard preferred application selection if dialog is canceled (Xfce #8802)
  • Do not ship generic category icons, these are standard (Xfce #9992)
  • Do not abort builds due to deprecated declarations (Xfce #11556)
  • Fix crash in Thunar on selection change after directory change (Xfce #13238)
  • Fix crash in exo-helper-1 from GTK 3 migration (Xfce #13374)
  • Fix ExoIconView being unable to decrease its size (Xfce #13402)

Documentation Updates

Available here

  • Add missing per-release API indices
  • Resolve undocumented symbols (100% symbol coverage)
  • Updated project documentation (HACKING, README, THANKS)

Translation Updates

Amharic, Asturian, Catalan, Chinese (Taiwan), Croatian, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Galician, Greek, Indonesian, Kazakh,  Korean, Lithuanian, Norwegian Bokmal, Norwegian Nynorsk, Occitan, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Serbian, Slovenian, Spanish, Thai

Downloads

The latest version of Exo can always be downloaded from the Xfce archives. Grab version 0.11.3 from the below link.

http://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/exo/0.11/exo-0.11.3.tar.bz2

  • SHA-256: 448d7f2b88074455d54a4c44aed08d977b482dc6063175f62a1abfcf0204420a
  • SHA-1: 758ced83d97650e0428563b42877aecfc9fc3c81
  • MD5: c1801052163cbd79490113f80431674a

Development Release: Parole 0.9.2

  • June 4, 2017
  • Sean Davis
With a huge code cleanup effort, complete plugin development documentation, and numerous bug fixes, Parole Media Player 0.9.2 paves the way for future development.  What’s New? General Homepage updated to docs.xfce.org Xfce URLs were switched to HTTPS New Features A new keyboard shortcuts helper was added to the Help menu New and keybindings for previous … Continue reading Development Release: Parole 0.9.2

Xubuntu 17.04 “Zesty Zapus” Released

  • April 13, 2017
  • Sean Davis
Xubuntu 17.04 “Zesty Zapus” was released on April 13, 2017 with several fresh Xfce GTK+ 3 releases, bug fixes, and new features in tow. What’s New? Several Xfce panel plugins and applications have been ported to GTK+ 3 Core Xfce libraries exo and libxfce4ui have been updated with full GTK+ 3 support Greybird and Numix were … Continue reading Xubuntu 17.04 “Zesty Zapus” Released

Parole Media Player 0.9.0 Released

  • February 11, 2017
  • Sean Davis
Development for the Xfce media player is back on!  Well over a year since the last release, Parole 0.9.0 brings a fresh set of features and fixes.  What’s New? New “mini mode”, activated from the right-click menu. New play and replay icons in the player content area. Clicking on these will play or replay your … Continue reading Parole Media Player 0.9.0 Released

Xfce Settings 4.13.0 Released

  • November 10, 2016
  • Sean Davis
On the path to Xfce 4.14, many components have been ported to GTK+ 3 while many others are in progress.  This is the first milestone in the Xfce Settings port.  What’s New? This is a one-to-one port from GTK+ 2, no new features or fixes have been implemented at this stage. Translation Updates: Basque, Bulgarian, Chinese … Continue reading Xfce Settings 4.13.0 Released

Xubuntu 16.04 LTS “Xenial Xerus” Released

  • April 21, 2016
  • Sean Davis
Here we are again, folks. After six more months of development (two years since the last LTS), we’ve got another fantastic release — Xubuntu 16.04 LTS “Xenial Xerus”!  I wanted to find a nice squirrel quote, but it seems most folks have a horrific dislike for the little critters. — Myself, after looking up squirrel … Continue reading Xubuntu 16.04 LTS “Xenial Xerus” Released

Translation Updates!

  • April 20, 2016
  • Sean Davis
Some releases are notable only for their improved translations.  LightDM GTK+ Greeter Settings 1.2.1, MenuLibre 2.1.3, and Xfce Panel Switch 1.0.4 are such releases. Translation Updates LightDM GTK+ Greeter Settings Arabic, Brazilian Portuguese, Catalan, Chinese (Simplified), Croatian, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Japanese, Lithuanian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Serbian, Spanish MenuLibre Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese (Simplified), Croatian, Czech, … Continue reading Translation Updates!