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

這個版本可以以一整套獨立的組件的方式下載，也可以以包含這些獨立組件的大型壓縮包的方式下載：

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

Xfce 開發團隊 敬上

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

這個版本可以以一整套獨立的組件的方式下載，也可以以包含這些獨立組件的大型壓縮包的方式下載：

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

Xfce 開發團隊 敬上

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

這個版本可以以一整套獨立的組件的方式下載，也可以以包含這些獨立組件的大型壓縮包的方式下載：

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

Xfce 開發團隊 敬上

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

這個版本可以以一整套獨立的組件的方式下載，也可以以包含這些獨立組件的大型壓縮包的方式下載：

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

Xfce 開發團隊 敬上

來源：網路評論。

今天，兩年又十個月的辛苦工作後，我們很榮幸的宣佈 Xfce 桌面 4.12 釋出了，它是一個取代 4.10 的新穩定版。

如此長的週期只能透過 Xfce 4.10 有多棒來解釋。但是就像所有的事情，它需要一些重新整理，以及我們看到許多新的貢獻者提供了有價值的回饋、功能與錯誤修復。與以前一樣，Xfce 依循著它自己的穩健步伐，進步而非革命，似乎也滿足了使用者的需求。

在 4.12 週期內，我們主要集中心力在改進桌面及視窗管理員的使用者體驗，並更新了一些組件以受惠於較新的可用科技。

此版本的主要值得注意之處：

• 視窗管理員獲得了新的可主題化 Alt+Tab 對話框，並包含了可選的視窗預覽模式及列表模式。初步的客戶端裝飾支援也實作了，視窗平鋪模式也有改進以提供角落平鋪，新的縮放模式也被加入了。新的 HiDPI 主題也被加入了。
• 面板現在會聰明的隱藏它自己、支援 Gtk3 插件，並有更多插件更新已受惠於在 4.10 中加入的功能。
• 桌面現在有了一個新的桌布設定對話框、每個工作空間不同桌布的支援，以及更好的多顯示器支援。它同時也支援顯示資料夾封面及符號在圖示上。
• 我們的工作階段管理員也更新以在可用時使用 logind 及／或 upower 來支援休眠／暫停。為了可移植性及尊重我們的使用者的選擇，fallback 模式也被實作了出來，以符合特定作業系統的後端。
• 對多螢幕的使用支援在新的顯示設定值對話框中改進了，並加入了一個在螢幕插入時會彈出的快速設定通知。
• 外觀對話框現在會顯示圖示與主題的預覽。
• Xfsettingsd 現在支援 libinput。
• 電源管理沒有被遺忘：新的面板插件被建立，logind/upower 支援也被加入到電池／上蓋／亮度的事件處理中，並且經由 light-locker 的鎖定也已被實現。設定值對話框也重新整修過，X11 的空白螢幕支援也已被加入。
• 我們的檔案管理員，最受人喜愛的 Thunar，看到了近乎瘋狂的改進數量：分頁支援、一大票的臭蟲修復、效能提升、自訂動作的快捷鍵、檔案複製與連結時更好的命名方式、在屬性中的看起來還不錯的剩餘空間條、對重新命名及其他對話框的微調、改進的鍵盤導覽、樹狀檢視的修復、更好的桌布支援、Gtk3 書籤支援、多重檔案屬性支援...我們還需要說更多嗎？
• 為了準備 Xfce 與 Gtk3 結合的未來，將不再需要主題引擎，我們將會停止開發我們的 Gtk 主題引擎，並且丟棄我們的 Gtk3 引擎 ─ 主題作者們，請更新您的主題至 CSS，如果您想要它們在下一個 Xfce 的版本中繼續運作的話。
• 因為 gstreamer 1.0 已經完全丟棄了混音器介面，而 xfce4-mixer 與 xfce4-volumed 在 gstreamer 0.10 上是依靠這個介面運作的，我們的混音器程式與音量守護行程不會被移植到 1.0，也因此將會停止維護。

若沒有這些好物，Xfce 就不會是現在的這個樣子。在這方面，我們也看到了相當大量的活動，最值得注意的有：

• Xfburn 加入了藍光光碟燒錄的支援。
• 工作管理員的使用者介面已完全重組，並移植到了 Gtk3。
• Parole 的使用者介面已完全重作，其中部份的重寫為它加入了許多新功能。此外它也移植到了 Gtk3 與 gstreamer 1.0。
• Mousepad 已完全重寫並移植到 Gtk3。
• Imgur.com 的支援也加入到螢幕截取器中。
• 新的類 GNOME-Shell 的 dashboard，稱為 xfdashboard 現已可用。
• 新的面板選單替代品，稱為 whiskermenu，已加入。
• GNOME2 的硬體監視器插件也被移植到我們的面板上。
• 天氣插件也得到了一個全新的使用者介面，其包含了強大的自訂選項與提供超多的詳細資訊。
• 眼睛插件使用三維座標來計算它的眼睛位置，所有時候很可怕，有時候很搞笑的眼睛會監視著你！
• 網路負載插件可與新的 udev 網路介面名稱一同運作，並可設定為在面板上顯示傳輸速率。
• 剪貼簿管理員插件可選擇性的顯示二維條碼。
• Cpufreq 插件現在支援了 Intel 的 pstate 驅動程式並對不同的面板大小及資訊顯示能適應的更好。
• 幾乎所有插件都以相同的外觀與感覺為目標對新的桌面列面板模式進行改進。

Xfce 4.12 更動列表的線上導覽在這裡：

https://xfce.org/about/tour

Xfce 4.10 至 Xfce 4.12 版本的變動細節可以在以下的頁面找到：

https://xfce.org/download/changelogs

這個版本可以以一整套獨立的組件的方式下載，也可以以包含這些獨立組件的大型壓縮包的方式下載：

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!

一如既往的，我們歡迎想要貢獻到開發 Xfce 的每個人！您可以 測試 Xfce 及 回報臭蟲，您可以協助我們 翻譯 及 編寫文件，以及對於 可用性及使用者體驗 來說，協助我們在您的散佈版中打包 Xfce，或是 遞交 patch 或是完整的新功能！您可以在 Freenode IRC #xfce-dev 頻道及 郵件列表 上與我們聯絡。

Xfce 開發團隊 敬上

在4.10週期內，我們主要集中心力在以多種方式潤飾桌面及改進使用者體驗。此版本較特別的部份是：

• 全新的應用程式協尋器已經被完全重寫，原先的 xfce4-appfinder 和 xfrun4 已經合而為一。
• 面板現在有一個可供選擇的垂直顯示模式(桌面列)。不僅如此，面板插件也能以多列的型式排列，這對桌面列模式特別有用。
• 全新的 MIME 類型編輯器可以讓您更容易的變更用以開啟不同檔案類型的應用程式。滑鼠及觸控板設定對話框及設定編輯器的功能更多了。前者現在對手寫板有更好的支援。
• 現在可以單擊開啟應用程式及桌面上的檔案。另外，4.10桌面可以透過桌布列表自動顯示縮圖。
• 視窗管理員可以設定為，將視窗拖曳到螢幕邊緣時自動平鋪。視窗切換(Alt+Tab)支援更有彈性的主題及更好的滑鼠導覽。

Xfce 4.10更動列表的線上導覽在這裡：

https://xfce.org/about/tour

Xfce 4.8與 Xfce 4.10預覽版的細節比較可以在以下的頁面看到：

https://xfce.org/download/changelogs

這個版本可以以一整套獨立的組件的方式下載，也可以以包含這些獨立組件的大型壓縮包的方式下載：

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

感謝所有的貢獻者、臭蟲回報者、翻譯者以及打包者，讓這個版本成為可能。

Xfce 開發團隊 敬上

此版本併入了一些新功能，像是改進 Thunar 中的檔案操作及 Xfwm4 中的平鋪視窗改進。除此之外就是大量的錯誤修復及翻譯更新。

我們希望您會喜歡這個版本。請給我們一些回饋，可以透過分享您的感想、寫部落格、發推特或是回報臭蟲！有您的幫助，4.10將會是永遠的最佳版本(至少在4.12出來以前)！

衷心感謝及問候每一位為此版本貢獻的人，
Xfce 開發團隊

這個版本將一些主要的變化併入了 Xfce 桌面環境的核心中，希望能解決大量的、長時間的請求。最值得注意的更新是新的應用程式尋找器，它合併了舊有的 appfinder 及 xfrun4。面板也有了新的垂直模式(亦即桌面列)以便更佳的利用寬螢幕的空間，並且也有一個新的動作插件。在設定方面，設定求助器合併到了 xfsettingsd，儲存正在執行的1個處理程序。還有一個重新編寫的，含有分類的設定對話框，並預設啟用插入式對話框。在滑鼠設定中也有了基本的 Synaptics 和 Wacom 設定及一個新的 MIME 類型編輯器。Thunar 則有了一個更精美的佈局以減少空間的使用，並與縮圖產生器互動時的反應速度更好。由於我們尚未決定要如何把桌面的功能合併到 Thunar 中，Xfdesktop 反而也有了更多改進，包括了單次點擊支援、桌面圖示縮圖以及更佳的檔案貼上能力。工作階段管理員改進了電源管理的代碼，提示已被移除，並從介面清理工作階段。最後但同樣重要的是，視窗管理員現在支援了視窗平鋪以及在工作切換器中的方向鍵導覽。

對使用者來說，另一個較大的變動是移除了軟體包中的使用者文件，並採用 docs.xfce.org 。此變動的原因是，因為自 Xfce 4.8以來，文件的貢獻並不大，所以我們希望 wiki 可以吸引到更多的貢獻者。在介面中的求助按鈕仍可運作，但會在您的網頁瀏覽器中打開文件。

此外，我們還丟棄了 xfce-utils，它的內容不是被移除就是移動到其他的 Xfce 軟體中。其他所有的依賴性變更都在4.10pre1的變更記錄中列出。Xfce 核心也獲得了幾個新組件，因為我們覺得對於極簡的桌面，它們是相當重要的：xfce4-power-manager (電源管理)、tumbler (Thunar 及其他組件的縮圖產生器)、garcon (選單函式庫，在4.8中就已經是依賴性)、thunar-volman (Thunar 的卷管理員)。

當然翻譯也有相當程度的改進，感謝我們的翻譯團隊令人吃驚的工作。

我們希望您會喜歡這個版本。請給我們一些回饋，可以透過分享您的感想、寫部落格、發推特或是回報臭蟲！有您的幫助，4.10將會是永遠的最佳版本(至少在4.12出來以前)！

衷心感謝及問候每一位為此版本貢獻的人，
Xfce 開發團隊

我們希望每個人都能和我們一樣享受這個版本。不幸的是，這對部份使用任何 BSD 系統的人來說就不是如此了，他們可能會注意到一些功能上的缺失。我們認為這個公告是一個表達我們對於最近在開放原始碼的生態系統中，特別在桌面環境中我們需要的工具，反擊「僅對 Linux 開發」的指責的好機會。

Xfce 4.8是我們嘗試將 Xfce 的代碼更新到符合過去幾年的新桌面框架的一個版本。我們希望我們的努力可以把 ThunarVFS、HAL 以 GIO、udev、ConsoleKit 取代，這有助於將 Xfce 帶入現代的桌面散布版。

使用 Xfce 4.8，我們的使用者可以此用多種協議(SFTP、SMB、FTP或更多其他協議)來瀏覽遠端共享。將所有檔案進度對話框合併後只剩單一個一個對話框。

我們的面板應用程式也已重新編寫，因此改進了位置、透明度、項目以及啟動器的管理。它同時也採用了新的選單插件以檢視目錄。它的插件框架仍相容於4.6版的插件。

我們也改進了我們的設定對話框。顯示設定對話框現在支援了 RandR 1.2，自動偵測螢幕並允許使用者挑選他們偏好的解析度、刷新速率、及旋轉程度。螢幕也可以設定為以複製模式或是放置於另一個螢幕旁邊運作。鍵盤選擇也變得更佳容易，對使用者更加友善。同時，更新後的手動設定編輯器也有更多的功能。

除了已經在 Xfce 中實現的功能外，4.8開發週期也帶來了很多其他好物。在2009年5月的 Ubuntu 桌面開發高峰會中有了「Xfce 釋出與開發模式」後，我們就有了嚴謹的釋出策略。新的網路應用程式讓釋出管理更加容易。我們努力改進 Xfce 的翻譯狀況，這導致了我們設立了我們自己的 Transifex 伺服器。其他您可能會注意到的是，我們的伺服器及鏡像的基礎設施已改進，所以我們的伺服器應該不會在這個發行公告後再有短暫的突然中斷。

再多的言語也難以表達，我們希望您能親自嘗試 Xfce 4.8！有一份簡短的線上導覽在

https://xfce.org/about/tour48

自4.8pre3版本的摘要在下列網址中提供(它同時也包括了在所有的預覽版本中採用的變動的連結)。

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

這個版本可以以一整套獨立的組件的方式下載，也可以以包含這些獨立組件的大型壓縮包的方式下載：

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

2011年才剛開始，我們已經在計畫未來。4.10行事曆將會很快的實施，並且，我們希望能在今年的 FOSDEM 上將 Xfce 轉變為一個非營利組織，敬請期待！

但願那時您仍會喜歡今天的釋出並與我們一起同樂。我們非常感謝我們所有的貢獻者，臭蟲回報者，以及同樣感謝所有翻譯者及打包者的精彩成果。

Xfce 開發團隊 敬上

在4.8pre2和4.8pre3中間有耶誕節和新年，因此毫不意外的只處理了多數組件中的少數問題。

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.

我們也再次將 xfce4-session-logout 中的 -reboot 及 -halt 參數恢復運作，而先前只是簡單地將目前的使用者登出而已。為了避免工作階段啟動時的紊亂狀況，並為了讓事情能快一點，我們不再使用 xrdb 來更新 xft 及游標設定，而是更新與 XSETTINGS 相關的屬性。

在視窗管理員 xfwm4 中，我們為日常使用的應用程式設定了一段雙擊所需的時間。透過隱藏 /general/mousewheel_rollup 選項，使用者可以禁用由滑鼠滾輪折疊視窗。視窗管理員現在也可以恰當的處理全螢幕視窗中的解析度變更，像是那些在遊戲中出現的。Xfwm4 的應用程式切換器現在只會在複製模式中出現。

這或許聽起來是有點用處的修復，但比起再次進入新 Xfce 面板的大量工作來說是微不足道的。大約 20+ 的已知臭蟲及退化已被修復。這裡是完整的變動記錄的摘錄：修復了外部插件的翻譯區，插件將可以再次使用 DND 來排序，在項目編輯器上雙擊特定項目會顯示偏好設定，拖曳項目到項目編輯器對話框中會將其再次從面板上移除，視窗列表現在可以用顯示器過濾。另一個近期出現的問題也被修復，也就是通知區域，或稱系統匣中的圖示大小。

Xfce 4.8pre3 也更新了許多翻譯，您可以在完整的變動記錄中看到。

既然4.8遵循 Xfce 的 釋出模式 ，我們應該在今天如期宣佈代碼凍結及創建早期的生命週期分支。我們決定不這麼作的原因是，沒有足多活躍的人能夠照料這個版本。所以我們將會繼續修復主線分支中的臭蟲，像我們在4.8pre2與4.8pre3中所作的事一樣。

這個版本，我們專注於修復所有 Xfce 組件中的臭蟲。我們努力的關閉了相當多的臭蟲回報，並感謝所有報告它們以及快速測試建議修復的人們。

儘管已經進入功能凍結階段，我們還是加入了一些次要的面板功能。我們也努力實現兩個長時間的請求：對使用選單編輯器(我們測試了 Alacarte)編輯應用程式選單的恰當支援，以及 Compiz 視口的整合。當然，這個版本也有許多的新的及改進的翻譯，感謝我們令人驚訝的翻譯團隊。

這個版本將一些主要的改進合併到 Xfce 桌面環境的核心裡，希望我們能成功的完成許多長時間的請求。其中最值得注意的變動是，我們已經將整個 Xfce 核心(Thunar、xfdesktop、特別是 thunar-volman)從 ThunarVFS 移植到 GIO 上，將遠端檔案系統帶入到 Xfce 桌面中。面板也已經被重新編寫，以提供更好的啟動器管理及多傳感頭支援。面板的新功能列表太長了，因而無法在這裡完整的列出。歸功於新的選單函式庫 garcon(即以前的 libxfce4menu，但又再次的被重新編寫)，我們現在支援了透過第三方選單編輯器，像是 Alacarte (我們自己的尚未出現)來編輯選單。我們的核心函式庫也稍稍提高了一點效率，一個最好的例子是，我們用來取代 libxfcegui4 的 libxfce4ui 函式庫。

或許最重要的成功是我們在 Xfce 4.8將會完成的，儘管不時遭受到開發團隊規模套太小的困境，桌面環境的核心還是與當今的桌面技術接軌，例如 GIO、ConsoleKit、PolicyKit、udev以及更多。大量老舊的廢物也已經從核心中剝離，像是 HAL 及 ThunarVFS(因為相容性的原因還在)的處理。

歸功於非凡的 Transifex 翻譯平臺，我們的語言團隊已經能夠以一種不可思議的速度更新他們的翻譯。在您讚賞此版本時也請向他們致敬！