4.4.2
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- Fix menu sometimes not popping up when using the keyboard shortcut,
again. Timeout waiting for grab is now 0.25s (bug 441).
- Fix desktop settings only getting applied to the first screen in
non-Xinerama dualhead setups (but 3467).
- Fix spurious drag when double-clicking a volume icon that fails to
mount (bug 3426).
- Clean out stale entries in file icon position file (bug 3267).
- Some minor memory leak fixes (some still remain, likely).
- Fix --disable-menu-editor configure option.
- Always use button 0 in gtk_menu_popup() as GTK+ 2.11+ expects the
same button to be pressed or it doesn't activate the entry (bug 3359).
- Don't set workspace for sticky windows in windowlist (bug 3317).
- Fix missing xfce_rc_close() causing memleak and too many open file
descriptors (bug 3065).
- Fix the Italian xfdesktop menu causing a crash.
- Updated translations: MiÅu Moldovan (ro).
4.4.1
=====
- Fix entries in the menu.xml files that should not have been translated.
- Add support for menu file as argument (Bug #2876).
- Remove use of __FUNCTION__ as it breaks sun's compiler (Bug #2924).
- Blurry rendering of unscaled backgrounds (Bug #2939).
- Fix uri parsing to unescape '%##' stuff in the uri (Bug #2942).
- Many translation updates.
20070121 (Xfce 4.4.0):
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We're just about ready to release Xfce 4.4.0! Hooray! There have been
many changes since my last entry.
Change since 4.4rc2:
- Fix support for applications that do pseudo-transparency (bug 2508).
- Change how icon cell size is calculated to avoid weirdness at large
sizes (bug 1546).
- Fix icons disappearing when the icon/text size is set too large, and
then not reappearing when the size is lowered again (bug 1546).
- Add hidden options to disable showing any or all of the 'File System',
'Home', or 'Trash' icons.
- Partially fix backdrop setting problems when unsetting Xinerama
stretch mode (bug 2573).
- Fix some possible (but unliklely) NULL pointer dereferences.
- Update documentation.
Changes since 4.4rc1:
- Fix crash when non-file:// URIs are dropped on the desktop (bug 2229).
- Handle Xinerama-enabled setups correctly so icons aren't placed in
"dead areas" or on the boundary between monitors (bug 1538).
- Fix crash when reloading the desktop several times quickly (bug 2426).
- Trash files by default, add binding for shift+delete to force
deletion (bug 2185).
- Fix crash when screen size changes (bug 2457).
- Fix problems with activating icons (bug 2452, 2206).
- Allow the icons to provide better information about what drag/drop
actions are allowed, so user feedback about drags/drops is much
better.
- Fix broken drop of multiple files onto the desktop (bug 2437).
- Be sure to notice if a removable volume's mount point changes
(bug 2489).
- Fix 100% CPU problem when the desktop folder is deleted (bug 2160).
Changes since 4.4beta2:
- Fix backdrop image tearing during expose (bug 1944).
- Show icon tooltips where appropriate (bug 1526).
- Use thunarx extensions for the icon context menus and properties
dialogs.
- Fix ugly gradients in the desktop wallpaper on 16-bit displays
(bug 1819).
- Don't show a folder for the desktop directory itself (bug 1916).
- Fix problems with markup in text labels (bug 2082).
- Add 'File System', 'Home', and 'Trash' icons.
- Fix compositing emblems on icons (1875).
- Use native Pango ellipsising support for the windowlist menu, which
looks way better (bug 2127).
- Allow panel plugin's menu to be opened at the pointer position
(bug 2103).
- Don't allow cut or delete if the file/dir isn't writeable (buf 2081).
- Memory leak fixes (bug 1910).
- Put the icon context menu on the proper screen (bug 2351).
Changes since 4.4beta1:
- Attempt to create ~/Desktop/ if it doesn't exist (bug 1691).
- Fix non-ejectable media showing as ejectable.
- Fix removable media not appearing when its mount point has not yet
been created.
- Don't have the desktop automatically take focus when it's mapped.
- Fix crash when removable volume has no mount point (bug 1763).
- Add support for creating launchers and URL launchers.
- Allow changing transparency of the icon label text background.
- Many icon drawing performance improvements, and fixes for some
drawing glitches.
- Fix menu positioning for floating panels in the Xfce Menu panel
plugin (bug 1660).
- Have the 'log out' dialog pop up if the user 'closes' the desktop
window (bug 1776).
- Handle more thunar-vfs errors and prompts.
- Add XDirectSave support for dropping data on the desktop.
- Add support for dropping URLs from a browser on the desktop.
- Fix crash when mounting some removable volumes (bug 1897).
(Brian)
20060418 (Xfce 4.4beta1):
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As usual, it's been a while since I've written anything. The major new
accomplishment since my last entry is that all the desktop icon code
has been refactored, and now, in addition to CDEish minimised application
icons, xfdesktop supports traditional desktop file icons. This
functionality requires very recent versions of libexo and thunar-vfs to
be present and installed before compiling xfdesktop.
Olivier and Benny just put together the 4.4beta1 release over the weekend,
so we're (finally!) gearing up to release 4.4.0 final within the next 4-6
weeks (hopefully).
(Brian)
20051031:
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Happy Halloween. I haven't wrote anything here in quite a while.
Quite a bit has happened, including numerous bugfixes and enhancements.
I don't have the energy to list them all here, but the one thing that
really sticks out is that xfdesktop now supports icons on the desktop.
No, it's not what you think: you can't put launcher icons on it, and
you can't view lists of files either. What you *can* do is see icons
representing all your minimized applications, a la CDE. Other
projects (xffm, Thunar) will address the need for file and launcher
icons.
The Xfce menu panel plugin has seen several improvements, including
some menu generation speed enhancements, and the ability to put a
text title in the button, as well as using non-square icons.
On the bugfix front, notably, you can bind 'xfdesktop -menu' and
'xfdesktop -windowlist' to keys now, and it should work properly all
the time.
There are a few small enhancements to the backdrop functionality,
such as the ability to stretch a single image across a Xinerama-
enabled desktop.
I suppose that's all for now. Development of Xfce as a whole has been
moving somewhat slowly lately, so 4.4.0 may not be coming as soon as
we'd like.
(Brian)
20041220 (Xfce 4.2rc3):
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Xfdesktop is shaping up quite well for the 4.2.0 release, but there
were a few necessary bugfixes:
- Redo the backdrop setting method to fix redraw problems with
Gtk 2.6, and to make it a bit nicer to maintain.
- Fix a backdrop drawing problem that crops up if you're using
multihead and a gtk2 theme with a background pixmap.
- The desktop menu cache now tracks changes to the XDG_DATA_DIRS
environment variable and invalidates the cache if it changes.
- Jean-Francois did some stuff with menueditor, but I think it
was just some code reorg and optimisation.
- Added back the add/remove workspace items to the windowlist
menu because Francois asked oh-so-nicely.
Hopefully this should be it, and xfdesktop won't need any more changes
for 4.2.0-final. Of course, now that I said it, it's ruined.
(Brian)
20041205 (Xfce 4.2rc2):
-----------------------
Not much has happened with xfdesktop in the last month, mainly some
minorish bugfixes:
- Fix problem with panel plugin where the button can sometimes
stay "pressed in" if the menu isn't available.
- Documentation updates (Jasper, mostly)
- Tweak menu directory searching.
- Filter desktop files based on desktop-id to avoid duplicate
menu entries.
- Fix bug where sticky windows weren't shown in the window list
at all.
- Fix menu module not loading at all on some systems when the
quit() symbol can't be resolved.
- Fix problem where window titles with GMarkup in them weren't
being escaped properly.
- Remove an occurrence of xfce_get_userfile() (replace with
xfce_resource_lookup()).
- Remove workspace add/remove, as that doesn't work properly
anymore, and it probably shouldn't be there anyway.
(Brian)
20041029 (Xfce 4.2beta2):
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* Wow, it's been a while since anyone's put anything in here. We're
gearing up for the release of 4.2beta2, the second beta release
on the road to 4.2.0. A lot has happened in the last year:
- Partial rewrite and redesign to support multihead setups (with
or without Xinerama).
- Better support for handling screen size changes via the XRandR
extension.
- A new autogenerated menu that searches for .desktop files on
your filesystem and organises them into hierarchical menus.
- Icon support for the applications menu and window list menu
- Backdrop color gradient support.
- Ability to adjust the brightness of the backdrop image.
- Jean-Francois Wauthy wrote a graphical menu editor, which is
distributed with xfdesktop.
- A panel plugin that can display the menu from xfce4-panel.
- An enhanced and partially redesigned settings window, with
some global menu settings added.
(Brian)
20031019:
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* Add '-reload', '-menu' and '-windowlist' arguments to xfdesktop to
make it reaload/refresh the image, popup the menu or popup the
windowlist repectively.
(Jasper)
20031016:
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* Added support for the XRandR X extension available with XFree86
4.3 and above. The XRandR support requires you to have Gtk+
2.2 or better installed.
(Benny)
