ANNOUNCE: xfce4-screensaver 0.1.7 released

Sean Davis smd.seandavis at gmail.com
Sun Jul 28 19:16:13 CEST 2019


xfce4-screensaver 0.1.7 is now available for download from
  
  https://archive.xfce.org/src/apps/xfce4-screensaver/0.1/xfce4-screensaver-0.1.7.tar.bz2
  https://archive.xfce.org/src/apps/xfce4-screensaver/0.1/xfce4-screensaver-0.1.7.tar.bz2.md5
  https://archive.xfce.org/src/apps/xfce4-screensaver/0.1/xfce4-screensaver-0.1.7.tar.bz2.sha1
  https://archive.xfce.org/src/apps/xfce4-screensaver/0.1/xfce4-screensaver-0.1.7.tar.bz2.sha256


What is xfce4-screensaver?
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xfce4-screensaver is a screen saver and locker that aims to have simple,
sane, secure defaults and be well integrated with the desktop.
xfce4-screensaver is a port of MATE Screensaver, itself a port of GNOME
Screensaver. It has been tightly integrated with the Xfce desktop,
utilizing Xfce libraries and the Xfconf configuration backend.

Website: 
  https://git.xfce.org/apps/xfce4-screensaver/about/


Release notes for 0.1.7
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[Please note that this is a development release.]

Features:
- Added configuration tool for individual screensavers
- Added support for on-screen keyboards

Code Cleanup:
- Drop libXxf86 dependency, no longer implemented or available
- Removed unneeded login window construction code
- Removed window shaking on failed login
- Removed unused session-idle signal
- Removed unused code from gs-manager/gs-window-x11
- Simplified lock screen code
- Simplified screensaver activation and locking code

General:
- Improved wallpaper drawing at 2x scale
- Migrated xfce4-screensaver-command to GDBus
- Fixed confusion between saver and lock timeouts

Translation Updates:
Armenian (Armenia), Belarusian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (China),
Chinese (Taiwan), Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, Galician,
German, Hungarian, Italian, Lithuanian, Norwegian Bokmål, Polish,
Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Spanish, Turkish


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