Since Xfce 4.18 a lot of major development happened. Our team added many nice new features, did a gazillion of bug fixes and did various minor improvements. Finally, all that was released for your pleasure.

The major focus during this development cycle was the preparation of the codebase to be ready for Wayland. So that we meanwhile have experimental Wayland support for most components. More details in the links below.

Assuming you have installed Xfce 4.18, here is an overview on the major changes you will see on an upgrade to Xfce 4.20:

https://www.xfce.org/about/tour420

A detailed overview of the changes between Xfce 4.18 and Xfce 4.20 releases can be found on the following page:

https://www.xfce.org/download/changelogs

This release can be downloaded either as a set of individual packages or as a single fat tarball including all these individual versions:

https://archive.xfce.org/xfce/4.20

S pozdravom,
Xfce vývojársky tím

Since Xfce 4.16 a lot of major development happened. Our team added multiple nice new features, did a gazillion of bug fixes and did various minor improvements. Finally, all that is going to be released for your pleasure.

This development cycle was influenced a lot by GSoC 2021 and GSoC 2022, which led to various new features, most of them for Thunar, the Xfce File Manager. Though as well multiple other Xfce components got a lot of love and many improvements were done under the hood.

Assuming you have installed Xfce 4.16, here is an overview on the major changes you will see on an upgrade to Xfce 4.18:

https://www.xfce.org/about/tour418

A detailed overview of the changes between Xfce 4.16 and Xfce 4.18 releases can be found on the following page:

https://www.xfce.org/download/changelogs

This release can be downloaded either as a set of individual packages or as a single fat tarball including all these individual versions:

https://archive.xfce.org/xfce/4.18

S pozdravom,
Xfce vývojársky tím

4.16 was a special cycle in many respects (not only pandemic-wise, but also). One of the corner-stones of the non-code changes concerns our migration to GitLab, which is a change in development workflow and a huge step forward in terms of becoming more contributor-friendly and welcoming. In parts, the humungous changelog of Xfce 4.16 can be attributed to new contributors proposing merge requests (288 merge requests were merged or closed against our core components alone!). We also created a reference Docker container (xfce/xfce-build) and added CI pipelines to all components to ensure we don´t break the build. None of this would have been possible without our hosting being sponsored by Gandi and Fosshost!

Another big change concerns our visual identity, which we updated from a strange mix of random (partly Tango-based) icons and not following any naming scheme to a new, visually consistent set (following the freedesktop.org naming specification and a fixed color palette). We´re aware this will generate some work for icon theme maintainers (if they really want to override our gorgeous icons ;)) but we believe the longterm benefit outweighs this one-time effort.

And then finally we did some housekeeping (e.g. by dropping Gtk2 support code) and we also added features and improvements - all while sticking to a reasonable release cycle timeframe.

So without further ado, here go the main highlights of this release:

• The window manager received lots of updates and improvements again in the area of compositing and GLX. If a primary display was set, the alt-tab dialog will now only be shown there. Furthermore some handy new options to zoom the cursor along with rest of the display as well as an option to keep minimized windows in the most recently used list complement this release.
• We added a new plugin to the panel dubbed "statustray" which combines both StatusNotifier and legacy Systray items. An animated autohide transition now clearly shows the user "where the panel has gone" and a dark mode (enabled by default) makes the panel drop into the background a bit more with bright themes like the Gtk default Adwaita. Quite a few more smaller improvements were also introduced like accessing desktop actions from a Launcher´s right-click menu, the Window Buttons plugin now offering to `Launch a new instance` of an application and the Workspace Switcher now optionally showing automatic numbering for workspaces.
• Support for fractional scaling was added to the display dialog, along with highlighting the preferred mode of a display with an asterisk and adding aspect ratios next to resolutions. Falling back to a working mode after misconfiguring the display layout has also been made more robust.
• A new tab in the "About Xfce" dialog shows basic system information like CPU or GPU type. Furthermore the layout and visuals of the dialog were improved.
• The settings manager has improved search and filter capabilities. Furthermore all settings dialogs now use window decorations drawn by Gtk (client side decorations).
• The "Mime Settings" and "Preferred Applications" dialogs were merged into the "Default Applications" dialog - making it easier for users to set which application handles which filetype or action from one place.
• Our file manager Thunar received a boatload of fixes and quite a few notable features, including pause for copy/move operations, support for queued file transfer, remembering view settings per directory and support for transparency in Gtk themes.
• Our thumbnailing service tumbler became more flexible by being able to exclude paths. Furthermore support for .epub (e-book format) was added.
• The session manager offers improved support for GPG agent 2.1 and the setting dialog was visually improved.
• The power manager received a lot of bugfixes and some smaller features - among them a cleanup of its settings dialog, an optional visual indicator for when `Presentation Mode` is enabled, more accurate battery status icons and automatically dismissing low-power notifications upon the connection of a charger.
• The desktop mostly received bugfixes and small improvements - and the new default wallpaper!
• Our menu library garcon received new APIs and now doesn´t launch applications as children of the process hosting the menu anymore. The previous behavior led to applications crashing along with e.g. the panel.
• The applicaton finder now allows for sorting applications by "frecency" - a combination of frequency and recency.
• Dependency updates: Drop Gtk2, add LibGTop, bump Gtk >= 3.22, GLib and GDBus >= 2.50

An online tour of the changes in Xfce 4.16 can be viewed here:

https://www.xfce.org/about/tour416

A detailed overview of the changes between Xfce 4.14 and Xfce 4.16 releases can be found on the following page:

https://www.xfce.org/download/changelogs

This release can be downloaded either as a set of individual packages or as a single fat tarball including all these individual versions:

https://archive.xfce.org/xfce/4.16

S pozdravom,
Xfce vývojársky tím

In this 4.14 cycle the main goal was to port all core components to Gtk3 (over Gtk2) and GDBus (over D-Bus GLib). Most components also received GObject Introspection support. Along the way we ended up polishing our user experience, introducing quite a few new features and improvements (read below) and fixings a boatload of bugs (read changelog).

The main highlights of this release are:

• The window manager received a slew of updates and features, including support for VSync (using either Present or OpenGL as backend) to reduce or remove display flickering, HiDPI support, improved GLX support with NVIDIA proprietary/closed source drivers, support for XInput2, various compositor improvements and a new default theme.
• The panel got support for RandR's primary monitor feature, improved window grouping in the tasklist plugin (better UX, visual group indicator etc), a per-panel “icon-size” setting, a new default clock format and clock format evaluator as well as an improved default panel layout.
• The desktop now has support for RandR's primary monitor feature, an orientation option for icon arrangement, a “Next Background” context menu option to advance the wallpaper and it now syncs the user's wallpaper selection to AccountsService.
• A completely new settings dialog to manage color profiles has been created. For most users this means out of the box support for color-managed printing (through cupsd) and scanning (through saned). For monitor profiles you will have to install an additional service like xiccd.
• The display dialog received a lot of attention during this cycle and a big feature: Users are now able to save and (automatically) restore complete multi-display configurations, which is especially helpful for those who frequently connect their laptop to varying docking stations or setups. Furthermore a lot of time was spent on making the user interface more intuitive and a hidden option was added to support RandR display scaling (configured via Xfconf).
• We added an option to enable Gtk window scaling to the appearance dialog and a monospace font option as well. However we had to drop theme previews as they didn't produce consistent results with Gtk3.
• While we decided to drop splash screens from the session manager, we added lots of features and fixes instead. Among them are hybrid sleep support, improvements to the default session startup avoiding race conditions, a feature to add and edit autostart entries, a switch user button in the logout dialog and improved session chooser and settings dialogs (the latter with a new tab that shows saved sessions). Furthermore you can now run commands not only "autostart style" at login time, but also when your computer suspends, logs out etc. Finally Gtk applications are now session-managed over DBus and screensavers are also communicated with (e.g. inhibited) over DBus.
• As always, Thunar - our file manager - received a lot of features and fixes. Among the visible changes are the completely reworked pathbar, support for larger thumbnails as well as support for a "folder.jpg" file altering the folder's icon (e.g. for music album covers). Power users will also notice the improved keyboard navigation (zooming, tab navigation). Thunar's volume manager has gained Bluray support.
• Our thumbnailing service tumbler received a lot of fixes and support for the Fujifilm RAF format.
• The application finder can now optionally be opened as a single window and can now be more easily navigated with the keyboard only.
• The power manager received a lot of bugfixes and some smaller features, including support for the XF86Battery button and for the newly created xfce4-screensaver. The panel plugin also saw several improvements: it can now optionally show the remaining time and/or percentage and it now relies on UPower's standard icon names to work with more icon themes out of the box. With LXDE moving on to a QT base the LXDE panel plugin was dropped.

A lot of applications and plugins that are part of the Xfce eco-system - often dubbed "goodies" - are part of what makes Xfce great. A lot of those have also seen important changes along the timeline of the 4.14 release. To highlight a few:

• Our notification service has gained support for persistence - in other words: notification logging - and a "Do Not Disturb" mode, which suppresses all notifications. A new panel plugin was created that shows missed notifications (especially helpful during "Do Not Disturb" mode) and gives quick access to toggling "Do Not Disturb" mode. Finally support for showing notifications on RandR's primary monitor was added.
• Our media player Parole received improved support for network streams and podcasts, as well as a new "mini mode" and automatic choosing of the best available video backend. Furthermore it also inhibits both screensavers and power managers during video playback now, making sure users don't have to go wiggle their mouse periodically while enjoying a movie.
• Our image viewer Ristretto has seen various user interface improvements and support for setting the desktop wallpaper. It has recently also seen its first Gtk3-based development release.
• The screenshooter now allows users to move the selection rectangle and at the same time displays its width and height. The imgur upload dialog was revamped and the command line allows for more flexibility.
• Our clipboard manager now has improved keyboard shortcut support (through a port to GtkApplication), improved and more consistent icon sizing as well as a new application icon.
• The pulseaudio panel plugin received MPRIS2 support to be able to remotely control media players and desktop-wide multimedia key support, essentially rendering xfce4-volumed-pulse a superfluous additional daemon.
• And finally the terminal emulator saw a huge amount of bug fixes and improvements since Xfce 4.12.

There is also a group of new projects that have become part of our project. Say hi to:

• We finally have our own screensaver (yes - we realize it's 2019 ;)). With lots of features and tight Xfce integration (obviously) it is a great addition to our catalog.
• The status notifier panel plugin provides a next-generation system tray where applications can show indicators. It supersedes the Ubuntu-centric xfce4-indicator-plugin for most application indicators.
• Catfish file search is like an old friend for most Xfce users - now it's officially part of Xfce!
• Finally Panel Profiles, which allows you to backup and restore your panel layouts, has moved under the Xfce umbrella.

As always it's also time to say goodbye to some older unmaintained or deprecated projects. (Luckily our projects only go to the attic aka the archive on git.xfce.org when they die.) With a salty teardrop of sadness we bid farewell to:

• garcon-vala, gtk-xfce-engine, pyxfce, thunar-actions-plugin, xfbib, xfc, xfce4-kbdleds-plugin, xfce4-mm, xfce4-taskbar-plugin, xfce4-windowlist-plugin, xfce4-wmdock-plugin and xfswitch-plugin

An online tour of the changes in Xfce 4.14 can be viewed here:

https://xfce.org/about/tour

A detailed overview of the changes between Xfce 4.12 and Xfce 4.14 releases can be found on the following page:

https://xfce.org/download/changelogs

This release can be downloaded either as a set of individual packages or as a single fat tarball including all these individual versions:

http://archive.xfce.org/xfce/4.14

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Xfce vývojársky tím

Source : Internet comments.

Today, after 2 years and 10 months of work, we are pleased to announce the release of the Xfce desktop 4.12, a new stable version that supersedes Xfce 4.10.

This long period can only be explained by how awesome Xfce 4.10 was. But as all things, it needed some refreshing - and for that we saw lots of new contributors providing valuable feedback, features and bugfixes. As always, Xfce follows its steady pace of evolution without revolution that seems to match our users' needs.

In this 4.12 cycle, we mainly focused on polishing our user experience on the desktop and window manager, and on updating some components to take advantage of newly available technologies.

The main highlights of this release are:

• The window manager gained a new themable Alt+Tab dialog with optional windows preview and a list mode. Initial Client side decoration support was implemented, window tiling mode was improved providing support for corner-tiling, and a new zooming mode was added. A HiDPI Xfwm theme was also added.
• The panel can now intelligently hide itself, supports Gtk3 plugins, and saw lots of its third-party plugins updated to take full advantage of the features added in 4.10.
• The desktop has a new wallpaper settings dialog, per workspace wallpaper support, and better multi-monitor handling. It also supports displaying folder cover art and emblems on icons now.
• Our session manager was updated to use logind and/or upower if available for hibernate/suspend support. For portability and to respect our users' choices, fallback modes were implemented relying on os-specific backends.
• Support for multi-monitor use was improved in a new display settings dialog and a quick setup popup on monitor plugging.
• The appearance dialog now showcases previews for icons and themes.
• Xfsettingsd now supports libinput.
• Power management was not forgotten: A new panel plugin was created, logind/upower support was added to handle battery/lid/brightness events, and locking via light-locker was implemented. The settings dialog was also revamped, and support for X11 screenblanking was added.
• Our file manager, the beloved Thunar, saw an insane amount of improvements: tab support, tons of bug fixes, speed-ups, key shortcuts for custom actions, better naming of file copies and links, nice freespace bar in properties, tweaks for the renamer and other dialogs, improved keyboard navigation, fixes for the treeview pane, better wallpaper support, Gtk3 bookmarks support, multiple file properties... need we say more?
• To prepare the future of Xfce with Gtk3, which no longer requires theme engines, we are stopping the development of our Gtk theme engine, and dropping our Gtk3 engine - theme makers, please update your themes to CSS if you want them to work on the next Xfce version.
• Due to gstreamer1.0 having dropped the mixer-interface entirely, and xfce4-mixer and xfce4-volumed relying on this interface with gstreamer0.10, our mixer application and volume daemon cannot be ported to 1.0 and are consequently not maintained anymore.

Xfce wouldn't be what it is right now without all its goodies. In this area, we also saw a flurry of activity, most notably:

• Xfburn gained BluRay Disc burning support.
• Task manager UI was totally revamped, and got ported to Gtk3.
• Parole's UI was totally redone, parts of it rewritten with many features added. Furthermore it was ported to Gtk3 and gstreamer1.0.
• Mousepad was totally rewritten and got an initial port to Gtk3.
• Imgur.com support was added to the screenshooter.
• A new GNOME-Shell-like dashboard named xfdashboard is now available.
• A new alternative menu for the panel named whiskermenu was added.
• The GNOME2 hardware monitor plugin was ported to our panel.
• Weather plugin got a totally new user interface with powerful customization options and provides tons of detailed information.
• Eyes plugin uses 3D coordinates to calculate its eye position, so even more sometimes scary, sometimes funny eyes will spy on you!
• Netload plugin works with the new udev net interface names and can be configured to show transfer rates in the panel.
• Clipboard manager plugin optionally displays a QR code.
• Cpufreq plugin now supports the intel pstate driver and can adapt better for different panel sizes and information displayed.
• Nearly all plugins have been improved to give the same look and feel and to support the new deskbar panel mode.

An online tour of the changes in Xfce 4.12 can be viewed here:

https://xfce.org/about/tour

A detailed overview of the changes between Xfce 4.10 and Xfce 4.12 releases can be found on the following page:

https://xfce.org/download/changelogs

This release can be downloaded either as a set of individual packages or as a single fat tarball including all these individual versions:

http://archive.xfce.org/xfce/4.12

A warm thank you all the contributors, translators and packagers for your efforts in making this release possible. We would also like to thank our fantastic users and occasional contributors who submitted bug reports, helped us find issues and sometimes provided patches. We are currently reviewing all patches sent to us and will include many more fixes to Xfce in the next release. We would also like to thank the many people who donated money to our project via Bounty Source. This will help us meet and hack on Xfce in the future!

As always, we welcome everyone who would like to contribute to the development of Xfce! You can either test Xfce and report bugs, you can help us with translations and documentation, with usability and user experience by packaging Xfce into your distribution, and by submitting patches or entirely new features! You can get in touch with us on the Freenode IRC channel #xfce-dev and our mailing list.

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Xfce vývojársky tím

In the 4.10 cycle we mainly focused on polishing the desktop and improving the user experience in various ways. Highlights of this release are:

• A new application finder that has been completely rewritten and combines the functionality of the old xfce4-appfinder and xfrun4.
• The panel now has an alternative vertical display mode (a deskbar). What is more, panel plugins can be arranged in multiple rows, which is particularly useful in the deskbar mode.
• A new MIME type editor that allows you to easily change applications used for opening different file types. The mouse and touchpad settings dialog and the settings editor were extended in terms of functionality. The former now supports tablets in a much better way.
• It is now possible to launch applications and open files on the desktop with a single click of the mouse. In addition, the 4.10 desktop can display thumbnails and automatically advance through the wallpaper list.
• The window manager can be configured to tile windows when dragging them to the screen edges. The tab window (Alt+Tab) supports more flexible theming and cursor key navigation.

An online tour of the changes in Xfce 4.10 can be viewed here:

https://xfce.org/about/tour

A detailed overview of the changes compared to Xfce 4.8 and Xfce 4.10 preview releases can be found on the following page:

https://xfce.org/download/changelogs

This release can be downloaded either as a set of individual packages or as a single fat tarball including all these individual versions:

http://archive.xfce.org/xfce/4.10

Thank you all the contributors, bug reporters, as well as translators and packagers for your efforts in making this release possible.

S pozdravom,
Xfce vývojársky tím

This release incorporates some new features like improved responsiveness of file operations in Thunar and tiling improvements in Xfwm4. Everything else is bug fixes and a _lot_ of translation updates.

We hope you will enjoy this release. Please give us feedback by sharing your thoughts, blogging, tweeting or by filing bug reports! With your help, 4.10 will be the best release ever (at least until 4.12)!

Kind regards and thanks to everyone who has contributed to this release,
The Xfce development team

This release incorporates major changes to the core of the Xfce desktop environment and hopefully succeeds in fulfilling a number of long time requests. Among the most notable updates is the new application finder that merges the functionality of the old appfinder and xfrun4. The Panel also has a new vertical mode [aka Deskbar] for better space usage on wide-screen monitors and a new actions plugin. On the settings side the settings helper is integrated in xfsettingsd, saving 1 running process. There is also a reworked settings dialog with categories and pluggable dialogs enabled by default. Basic Synaptics and Wacom settings in the Mouse settings and a new MIME-Type editor. Thunar gained a more polished layout to reduce space usage and more responsive interaction with the thumbnail generator. Because we have not decided on how to merge the desktop functionality into Thunar yet, Xfdesktop has instead received various improvements, including single-click support, desktop icon thumbnails and better pasting of files. The Session Manager has improved power management code, tips have been removed and cleanup sessions from the interface. Last but not least, the Window Manager now has support for tiling windows and arrow key navigation in the task switcher.

Another big change for users is the removal of user documentation of the packages and introduction of docs.xfce.org. The reason for this change is the limited contribution of documentation since Xfce 4.8, so we hope the wiki will attract more contributors. The help buttons in the interface still work, but you'll be asked to open the documentation website in your web browser.

Furthermore we dropped xfce-utils. Its content has either been removed or moved to other Xfce packages. All other dependency changes are listed in the 4.10pre1 ChangeLog. The Xfce core also gained a couple of new components because we think they are critical for a minimal desktop: xfce4-power-manager (power management), tumbler (thumbnail generation for Thunar and other components), garcon (menu library, was already a dependency in 4.8), thunar-volman (volume manager for Thunar).

Of course translations also improved a lot, thanks to the amazing work of our translation teams.

We hope you will enjoy this release. Please give us feedback by sharing your thoughts, blogging, tweeting, denting or by filing bug reports. With your help, 4.10 will be the best release ever (at least until 4.12)!

Kind regards and thanks to everyone who has contributed to this release,
The Xfce development team

Dúfame, že sa každému bude páčiť toto vydanie rovnako ako nám. Je smutné, že to nebude prípad ľudí ktorí používajú niektorú verziu z BSD systémov. Myslíme si, že toto oznámenie je dobrou príležitosťou, ako vyjadriť svoj ​​nesúhlas s nedávnym "Len-Linux" vývoj v open source ekosystéme, a to najmä s ohľadom na nástroje, ktoré potrebujeme v pracovnom prostredí.

Xfce 4.8 je náš pokus o aktualizáciu Xfce kódu založeného pre všetky nové desktopové frameworky, ktoré boli zavedené v niekoľkých posledných rokoch. Dúfame, že naše úsilie o pokles kúskov, ako je ThunarVFS a HAL s GIO, udev, ConsoleKit a PolicyKit pomôže prinášať Xfce do moderných distribúcií.

S Xfce 4.8 naši používatelia budú môcť prezerať vzdialené zdieľania pomocou rôznych protokolov (SFTP, SMB, FTP a mnoho ďalších). Zmätok okna bol znížený zlúčením všetkých dialógov postupu súborov do jedného.

Náš panel aplikácií bol prepísaný, čo vedie k možnosti zmeny pozície, transparentnosti, manažmentu položiek a spúšťača. Zavádza aj nové menu modul pre prehliadanie adresárov. Je to modul framwork a je aj naďalej v súlade s 4.6 modulmi.

Taktiež sme vylepšili možnosti nastavení. Nastavenie displeja teraz podporuje RandR 1.2, detekuje automaticky obrazovky a umožňuje používateľom si vybrať ich obľúbené rozlíšenie, obnovovaciu frekvenciu či otáčanie. Obrazovky môžu byť konfigurované buď pracovať v režime klonovania alebo môžu byť umiestnené vedľa seba. Nastavenie klávesnice je odteraz jednoduchšie a užívateľsky prívetivejšie. Tiež, ručné nastavenia editora bol aktualizovaný pre väčšiu funkčnosť.

Okrem funkcií implementovaných do Xfce, vývojový cyklus 4.8 nám priniesol veľa ďalších zaujímavostí. Prvýkrát sme mali vážnu stratégiu vydania po vzniku "Xfce modelu vydania a vývoja" rozvinutého na Ubuntu Desktop summite v máji 2009. Nová webová aplikácia riadi verzie oveľa jednoduchšie. Tvrdo sme pracovali na zlepšení situácie Xfce prekladov, ktoré nás viedli k založeniu vlastného Transifex servera. Snáď si všimnete, že náš server a zrkadlenie infraštruktúry bolo vylepšené, a dúfame, že sa nezrútia krátko po vydaní tohto oznámenia.

Je tam veľa čoho objavovať a dúfame, že veľa z vás Xfce 4.8 vyskúša! Je tu aj krátka on-line ukážka

https://xfce.org/about/tour48

Prehľad zmien od verzie 4.8pre3 je k dispozícii na nasledujúcej adrese (tiež obsahuje odkazy pre zmeny zavedené vo všetkých verziách):

https://xfce.org/download/changelogs/4.8

Vydanie sa dá stiahnuť buď jednotlivo alebo ako balík zahŕňajúci všetky jednotlivé verzie:

http://archive.xfce.org/xfce/4.8/

Rok 2011 práve začal a my už plánuje budúcnosť. Dúfame že plánovanie 4.10 bude spravené čoskoro, a budeme môcť otočiť Xfce na neziskovú organizáciu v tomto roku FOSDEM, takže zostaňte naladení!

Ale do tej doby dúfame, že sa vám bude páčiť dnešné vydanie a pripojíte sa k nám s oslavovaním. Ďakujeme všetkým našim prispievateľom, nahlasovačom chýb a rovnako za úžasné úsilie našich prekladateľov a tvorcov balíčkov.

S pozdravom,
Xfce vývojársky tím

Vo vianočnom a silvestrovskom predvečery medzi 4.8pre2 a 4.8pre3 nebude žiadnym prekvapením, že pre väčšinu komponentov sa vyrieši len niekoľko otázok.

Among other things we updated the default keyboard shortcuts to include monitor keys. The status icon of the file manager's progress dialog is now properly hidden when the dialog is destroyed. Its wallpaper plugin is now capable of handling filenames with spaces. The environment variables of commands launched from the Xfce run dialog were not set properly, so we fixed that so that commands launched from the dialog always inherit the environment of the Xfce session.

Tiež sme spravili --reboot a --halt parametre xfce4-session-logout, ktoré predtým iba odhlásili aktívneho používateľa. Aby sa zabránilo sporom počas štartu sedenia a v snahe veci trochu urýchliť sa viac už nepoužije xrdb pre aktualizáciu xft a nastavenie kurzora ale namiesto toho sa aktualizujú súvisiace XSETTINGS vlastnosti samé.

V správcovi okein xfwm4 sme pridali časové obdobie potrebné pre dvojklik. Pomocou skrytých možností /general/mousewheel_rollup možno teraz vypnúť scrolovanie pomocou kolieska myši. Správca okien teraz taktiež správne spracováva zmeny rozlíšenia obrazovky voči celoobrazovkovým oknám ktoré sú v hrách. Xfwm4 prepínač sa objaví len raz v klonovanom režime.

Môže to znieť ako niekoľko užitočných opráv, ale nie je to nič v porovnaní s množstvom práce, ktorá išla znova do nového Xfce panela. Asi 20+ známych chýb a regresií bolo opravených. Tu je krátky výber z celej zmeny: Preklad domén bol opravený pre externé moduly, moduly môžu byť dodané s DND, dvojité poklepanie na položky v položke editora zobrazuje ich preferencie, presunutím položiek na položku editora ich dialóg opäť odstráni z panela, zoznam úloh je teraz možné filtrovať podľa zobrazenia. Ďalším problémom, ktorý sa objavil len nedávno a teraz už je opravený je zmena veľkosti ikony v oznamovacej oblasti, tiež známa ako systray.

Xfce 4.8pre3 tiež obsahuje veľké množstvo aktualizácií prekladov, ako je vidieť v kompletnom logu zmien.

Vzhľadom k tomu, že u Xfce postupuje model verzie na 4.8, tak by sme za normálnych okolností mali oznámiť zmrazenie kódu a vytvorenie vetiev podpory životného cyklu. Rozhodli sme sa ale proti tomu, pretože na to nie je dostatok ľudí, ktorý by sa v túto chvíľu o to aktívne starali. Takže budeme pokračovať opravou chýb v hlavnej vetve, tak ako sme to urobili medzi 4.8pre2 a 4.8pre3.

V tomto vydaní sme sa zamerali na opravovanie chýb vo všetkých komponentoch Xfce. Podarilo sa nám veľké množstvo z nich opraviť a uzavrieť vďaka všetkým osobám, ktorí nahlasovali a rýchlo testovali navrhované opravy.

Niekoľko drobných funkcií panela bolo pridaných aj počas zmrazenia. Podarilo sa nám tiež popracovať na dvoch dlhodobých žiadostiach: podpora pre editáciu menu s aplikáciami editorom (Alacarte je ten, ktorý sme testovali) a integráciu s Compiz. Samozrejme, že táto verzia tiež obsahuje množstvo nových a vylepšených prekladov vďaka úžasnej práci našich prekladateľských tímov.

Táto tlačová správa obsahuje zásadné zmeny jadra pracovného prostredia Xfce a dúfame, že uspeje pri splnení dlhodobých žiadostí. Medzi najpozoruhodnejšiu aktualizáciu patrí prenesenie celého Xfce jadra (Thunar, xfdesktop a thunar-volman predovšetkým) z ThunarVFS na GIO, čím sme priniesli vzdialené súborové systémy do Xfce. Panel bol prepísaný od základov a poskytuje lepšie riadenia spúšťania a lepšie podporu multi-obrazoviek. Zoznam nových funkcií panelu je príliš dlhý na uvedenie jeho plného rozsahu. Vďaka novému menu garcon knižnice (predtým známa ako libxfce4menu, tiež bola znova celá prepísaná) teraz podporuje úpravy ponuky prostredníctvom editoru tretej strany ako Alacarte (zatiaľ nemáme vlastný). Naše základné knižnice boli trochu zjednodušené, dobrým príkladom je novo zavedená knižnica libxfce4ui, ktorá má za cieľ nahradiť libxfcegui4.

Pravdepodobne najdôležitejší úspech dosiahneme s Xfce 4.8, aj napriek tomu, že z času na čas trpí malou veľkosťou vývojového tímu, hlavná časť pracovné prostredia je v súlade s dnešnými desktop technológiami, ako sú GIO, ConsoleKit, PolicyKit, udev a mnoho ďalších. Mnoho starých bolo odstránených z jadra rovnako ako sa to stalo s HAL a ThunarVFS.

Vďaka úžasnej platforme prekladov Transifex, sú naše jazykové tímy schopné aktualizovať ich preklady neuveriteľným tempom. Prosím uveďte ich, ak bude chváliť túto verziu!