ANNOUNCE: xfdesktop 4.20.1 released

Brian Tarricone brian at tarricone.org
Mon Feb 17 10:00:37 CET 2025


xfdesktop 4.20.1 is now available for download from
  
  https://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/xfdesktop/4.20/xfdesktop-4.20.1.tar.bz2
  https://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/xfdesktop/4.20/xfdesktop-4.20.1.tar.bz2?sha1
  https://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/xfdesktop/4.20/xfdesktop-4.20.1.tar.bz2?sha256


What is xfdesktop?
==================

Xfce's desktop manager.  Xfdesktop draws the background color and image,
as well as the icons on the desktop.  It also provides an applications
menu when right-clicking on the desktop.

Website: 
  https://docs.xfce.org/xfce/xfdesktop/start


Release notes for 4.20.1
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- Fix another gcc-analyzer warning
- Improve performance of gradient rendering
- Add simple benchmark for rendering gradients
- Refactor tests a bit
- Fix or suppress gcc-analyzer warnings
- meson-build: Use SPDX license expression
- Don't send URIs to the clipboard when the paster requests UTF8_STRING
- Ensure single-workspace-number is never set to a negative value
- Remove debugging log statement
- Show loop device volumes if "Other Devices" is selected
- For the "unknown volumes" type, don't require it to be removable
- Initialize icon label font point size settings to defaults
- Fix use-after-free when attempting to load invalid background
- settings: keep a reference to the backdrop preview model
- Work around GTK issue with setting the file chooser button folder
- Manually call gtk_init() in main()
- Don't add the XfceSMClient command-line options if no X11 support
- meson-build: Update debug/optimization flag management
- Fix typo in issue template
- Fix monitor chooser UI resource path
- Translation Updates:
  Albanian, Basque, Catalan, Czech, Danish, English (United Kingdom),
  French, Galician, German, Greek, Italian, Norwegian Bokmål, Occitan
  (post 1500), Persian (Iran), Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil),
  Romanian, Serbian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Ukrainian


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