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Xfce 4.6.1 Changelog



Changes introduced for Final release

Utility Library (libxfce4util):

  • Updated translations: Japanese, Spanish, Galician, Slovenian, Polish, Romanian.

Widget Library (libxfcegui4):

  • Updated translations: Polish, Japanese, Galician, Portuguese, Norwegian, Spanish.

Extension Library (exo):

  • Quote arguments passed to exo-open (Bug #5132).
  • Add gettext() call around two strings which are already as translatable with N_() (Bug #5203).
  • Fix broken build due to incomplete integration of the Danish and Galician manual translations.

Menu Library (libxfce4menu):

  • Remove gtk+-2.0 from the dependency field of pkg-config file. Add glib-2.0 and gthread-2.0 instead.
  • Update translations: Spanish, Italian, Japanese, Galician

Window Manager (xfwm4):

  • Reduce repaint timeout in the compositor (Bug #5080)
  • Fix applications getting focused when focus on map is unset even without focus stealing prevention enabled (Bug #5044)
  • Reduce minimum timeout for focus delay in focus follow mouse (100ms was way too much)
  • Fix raise delay settings in xfwm4 dialog being totally ignored
  • Avoid unecessary warnings about timestamps at startup
  • Fix a long standing bug in xfwm4 4.6 were activating a transient would not regrab the mouse on parent window.
  • Do not go over adjacent windows with fill (Bug #5152)
  • Do not actually change window layer when status is above, below or fullscreen (Bug #5030)
  • Check fullscreen status against each monitor and not just the overall screen size in the compositor.
  • Fix remaining active grab if shortcut is not used (Bug #5207)
  • Plug various memory leaks
  • Updated translations: Polish, Swedish, Brazilian Portuguese, English (GB), Spanish, Czech, Turkish.

Desktop Manager (xfdesktop):

  • Fix desktop menu failing to load on FreeBSD (Bug #3370).
  • Ensure root window properties get deleted when xfdesktop quits (Bug #5154).
  • Reload the backdrop and icon view when 'xfdesktop --reload' is run (Bug #5156).
  • Make default button in 'delete multiple' dialog consistent with default in 'delete single' dialog (Bug #5140).
  • Reload the desktop when the first image is added to an image list (Bug #5001).
  • Auto-select new images as they are added to the settings dialog's image list (Bug #5014).

Panel (xfce4-panel):

  • Migrate launcher category icons from 4.4 panels (Bug #5067).
  • Fix compilation with -Wl,--as-needed (Bug #5103).
  • Don't crash when the quit action button is pressed (Bug #5118).
  • Properly set the systray orientation property (Bug #5149).
  • Fix xfce-hvbox not working with gtk 2.16 (Bug #5166).
  • Don't crash the launcher plugin when the launcher entry list is empty.
  • Add icon-name fallback to the show desktop plugin (Bug #5117).
  • Disconnect the icon theme changed signal from a launcher when it is destroyed to avoid crash when the icon theme changes.
  • Fix drawing dots mode of the seperator plugin in a vertical panel (Bug #5162).
  • Fix a possible crash when setting the session restart style on an uninitialized client session.
  • A whole bunch of translation updated (Polish, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, Galician, Norwegian).

Session Manager (xfce4-session):

  • Fix crash in settings dialog when a .desktop file with a missing Application key is opened (Bug #5020).
  • Ensure networked session handling over TCP is disabled by default (Bug #5126).

Settings Manager (xfce4-settings):

  • Use the folder name for selecting the icon- and style-theme in the appearance dialog (Bug #4997).
  • Make sure inputproto 1.4.2 is available before enabling device hotplugging in the code (Bug #5084).
  • Remove unsigned clamp macro that broke applying the display settings and select the correct refresh rate (Bug #4966).
  • Make sure that the same .desktop file does not appear in the settings-manager more then once if it occurs in different locations in XDG_DATA_DIRS (Bug #5159)

Configuration Manager (xfconf):

  • Be a bit safer when writing out channel xml files: flush data to disk using fdatasync()/fsync() before renaming over the old file.
  • Updated translations: pl, es, it, gl, pl, pt, uk

File Manager (thunar):

  • Put quotes around filenames in thunar-wallpaper-plugin (Bug #5056)
  • Apply umask properly when creating files/directories. Patch by Giovanni Bechis (Bug #3532).

Mixer (xfce4-mixer):

  • Make q and s trigger the corresponding actions.
  • Minor cosmetic fixes (row spacing of 6px in tables).
  • Add missing AudioVideo category which is obligatory if you use the Audio category (Bug #4933).
  • Display mute/record state properly on startup (Bug #5002).
  • Fix segfault when destroying the plugin
  • Move capture track check into xfce_mixer_track_update_record().
  • Don't increment the reference count on GObjects when passing them to GValue using g_value_set_object().
  • Fix crash with backends where the GstMixer implementation has no "device-name" property (Bug #5201).
  • Include libxfcegui4.h to avoid implicit declaration of xfce_err().
  • Translation updates: Spanish, Polish, Galician, Portuguese, Italian

Utilities (xfce-utils):

  • Reset icon theme name if the migrated icon theme name (possibly 'Rodent') doesn't exist anymore.
  • Remove a bash-ishm ('source') from xinitrc.

Application Finder (xfce4-appfinder):

  • Translation updates: Polish, Spanish, Portuguese