Xfce4-notifyd 0.2.3
I'm glad to announce this new release of xfce4-notifyd which ships mostly bug fixes and code cleanups. Theming has also been improved with additional style properties and drawing fixes. Xfce4-notifyd themes may need to be updated to take advantage of those new style properties and to adapt to the theming changes. Sorry for the inconvenience.
Thanks a lot to all the persons who contributed to this release and kept me motivated! This is the result of your work!
Changelog
libnotify is now required as a dependency to build a test suite and to show improved notification previews.
Features
- Add a category to the settings dialog for Xfce4 Settings Manager.
- Add widget names to summary ("summary") and body ("body") widgets to allow easier theming. Remove the redundant / buggy summary-bold style property (bug #8431). Themes will have to be updated accordingly.
Bugs fixed
- Fix notifications not disappearing after clicking an action button.
- Handle timeout correctly when smaller than fading time (bug #8580).
- Avoid flickering of the notifications.
- Accept uri of images in icon_name parameter.
- Parse body with g_markup_escape_text which allows us to handle span attributes misused by some clients and to parse strings with "unusual" characters such as & (bug #7773, #8187).
- Respect border-width when drawing the notification (bug #9475).
- Do not kill notification daemon to apply new theme. Instead, handle style updates of existing notifications.
- Show a button in the notification preview (bug #9982).
- Add an icon to the notification preview.
Updated translations
Arabic, Basque, Brazilian, Bulgarian, Castilian, Chinese (China), Chinese (Taiwan), Croatian, Danish, English, Finnish, Flemish, French, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Korean, Lithuanian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uyghur and Valencian.
Xfdesktop 4.10.2
Xfdesktop 4.10.1 introduced a regression which triggered 100% CPU usage when using a solid color as background. This is fixed with this new release, sorry for the inconvenience.
Full changelog:
- Fix hang when no backdrop image is selected (Bug #9892).
- Fix tiling for some images.
Xfdesktop 4.10.2
Xfdesktop 4.10.1 introduced a regression which triggered 100% CPU usage when using a solid color as background. This is fixed with this new release, sorry for the inconvenience.
Full changelog:
- Fix hang when no backdrop image is selected (Bug #9892).
- Fix tiling for some images.
Xfdesktop 4.10.2
Xfdesktop 4.10.1 introduced a regression which triggered 100% CPU usage when using a solid color as background. This is fixed with this new release, sorry for the inconvenience.
Full changelog:
- Fix hang when no backdrop image is selected (Bug #9892).
- Fix tiling for some images.
Xfdesktop 4.10.1
I just released Xfdesktop 4.10.1 which contains some bug fixes and updated translations which had been there for months. Congratulations to Eric Koegel who committed most of them!
Amongst others, fixed background cycling and improved menu icons' loading are appreciated.
Changelog
- Add a tabs width of padding for tooltip text (Bug #9162).
- Fix theming of removable devices' icons (Bug #8977).
- SVG images are no longer pixilated when scaled up.
- Improve menu icon loading (Bug #8795).
- Fix background cycling (Bug #8962).
- Fix a crash when minimized window icons are resized (Bug #8963).
- Fix use after free error in xfdesktop_regular_file_icon_peek_tooltip (Bug #9059).
- Translation updates: Arabic, Bulgarian, Croatian, Dutch, Greek, Korean, Polish, Russian, Serbian, Turkish and Uyghur.
Xfdesktop 4.10.1
I just released Xfdesktop 4.10.1 which contains some bug fixes and updated translations which had been there for months. Congratulations to Eric Koegel who committed most of them!
Amongst others, fixed background cycling and improved menu icons' loading are appreciated.
Changelog
- Add a tabs width of padding for tooltip text (Bug #9162).
- Fix theming of removable devices' icons (Bug #8977).
- SVG images are no longer pixilated when scaled up.
- Improve menu icon loading (Bug #8795).
- Fix background cycling (Bug #8962).
- Fix a crash when minimized window icons are resized (Bug #8963).
- Fix use after free error in xfdesktop_regular_file_icon_peek_tooltip (Bug #9059).
- Translation updates: Arabic, Bulgarian, Croatian, Dutch, Greek, Korean, Polish, Russian, Serbian, Turkish and Uyghur.
Xfdesktop 4.10.1
I just released Xfdesktop 4.10.1 which contains some bug fixes and updated translations which had been there for months. Congratulations to Eric Koegel who committed most of them!
Amongst others, fixed background cycling and improved menu icons' loading are appreciated.
Changelog
- Add a tabs width of padding for tooltip text (Bug #9162).
- Fix theming of removable devices' icons (Bug #8977).
- SVG images are no longer pixilated when scaled up.
- Improve menu icon loading (Bug #8795).
- Fix background cycling (Bug #8962).
- Fix a crash when minimized window icons are resized (Bug #8963).
- Fix use after free error in xfdesktop_regular_file_icon_peek_tooltip (Bug #9059).
- Translation updates: Arabic, Bulgarian, Croatian, Dutch, Greek, Korean, Polish, Russian, Serbian, Turkish and Uyghur.
Xfdesktop 4.10.1
I just released Xfdesktop 4.10.1 which contains some bug fixes and updated translations which had been there for months. Congratulations to Eric Koegel who committed most of them!
Amongst others, fixed background cycling and improved menu icons' loading are appreciated.
Changelog
- Add a tabs width of padding for tooltip text (Bug #9162).
- Fix theming of removable devices' icons (Bug #8977).
- SVG images are no longer pixilated when scaled up.
- Improve menu icon loading (Bug #8795).
- Fix background cycling (Bug #8962).
- Fix a crash when minimized window icons are resized (Bug #8963).
- Fix use after free error in xfdesktop_regular_file_icon_peek_tooltip (Bug #9059).
- Translation updates: Arabic, Bulgarian, Croatian, Dutch, Greek, Korean, Polish, Russian, Serbian, Turkish and Uyghur.
Parole 0.4.0 is out!
A new awesome release of the Parole media player for Xfce is out and ships all the hard work of Sean Davis and Simon Steinbeiss.
Sean wrote an extensive description of this new release on his blog, with tons of screenshots. As stated there, do not hesitate to give them feedback on this new release and to file any issue you may have on the Xfce Bugzilla.
Here is a screenshot of the new very nice main view while playing an audio file:
Congratulations to Sean and Simon for this excellent work!
Xfce announces alpha release of version 4.6
After about a year and a half of development, the Xfce team has announced the alpha release of Xfce 4.6, codenamed “Pinky” “Pinkie”.
Xfce is the desktop environment and main reason for the existence of Xubuntu. It provides the file manager, panels and much more, keeping your desktop fast yet easy to use. Thus, Xfce is one of the most important parts of Xubuntu, and the 4.4 release has been enjoyed by many users of Xubuntu since it was released.
Obviously, the 4.6 release will be very significant for Xubuntu, and this is an important milestone in the road towards that release. While it was initially hoped that this release would make it into Xubuntu 8.10 (codenamed “Intrepid Ibex”), the Xfce release schedule suggests that, with three beta releases and two release candidated still scheduled, that target won’t be met. However, you can expect to see the new release in Xubuntu 9.04 (codename “Jaunty Jackalope”), and if you’re running 8.10 you can try the alpha release by adding the xubuntu-dev PPA to your software sources. (Note: at the time of writing this the packaged version is not this actual alpha but a version before that, however, this alpha will be packaged soon.)
The new version of Xfce comes with many new features. Xfce now has a new configuration backend called xfconf, similar to gconf, but simpler and easier to work with. This brings more flexibility and better integration between Xfce components. You can now control your desktop settings through the command-line – this is not only handy for people helping on IRC (i.e. there is no more need to guide the user through all kinds of settings dialogs – though, IMHO, that would be less confusing for the user), it also means automated scripts can easily update your settings. One use I see for this is being able to change your keyboard layout using a key combination, an oft-requested feature by programmers.
Speaking of key combinations: the confusing keyboard shortcut-themes have been removed and conflicts between keyboard shortcuts and window manager shortcuts are now easily resolved. All these new settings also come with updated settings dialogs, which can be started standalone as they are now, but also embedded into the settings manager – a feature of which Jannis made a screencast.
Furthermore, Xfce now ships libxfce4menu. This is a software library aiming to implement the menu standard also implemented by GNOME and KDE and partly implemented by Xfce 4.4. While it is currently in use only by the desktop and the Appfinder (the latter of which has been completely rewritten to support libxfce4menu), it paves the way for a proper menu plugin in the panel that you can actually edit.
Apart from the libxfce4menu support, the desktop manager xfdesktop has also received a few small improvements over the previous version. It has a redesigned preferences dialog, includes a few more options for the desktop background (such as colour saturation adjustment), and can now automatically start and stop managing a new desktop when you respectively plug or unplug a monitor.
Finally, the Xfce mixer plugin has been completely rewritten to use gstreamer. One effect this has is that Xubuntu will probably definitely be switching to gstreamer-based applications (Xubuntu used to include a xine version of Totem, the movie player, but recently switched to the gstreamer-based version). The biggest benefit this brings users is that it will automatically ask to search for additional media support when it is not installed yet, which happens e.g. when you try to play an MP3-file on a freshly installed Xubuntu.
All in all, though not as big as 4.4 was, this is shaping up to be another fine release of Xfce that has me looking forward to it.
