[ANNOUNCE] Xfce 4.2.3.1 released

[Dennis J. Tuchler]

Olivier Fourdan wrote:

>Greetings,
>
>The Xfce development team is glad to announce Xfce 4.2.3.1, a
>maintenance
>and bug fix release of Xfce 4.2 (current latest stable branch of Xfce).
>
>As usual, source and binary packages are available from Sourceforge.net,
>Xfce.org and all the usual mirrors.
>
>http://xfce.sourceforge.net
>http://www.xfce.org/archive/xfce-4.2.3.1
>http://spuriousinterrupt.org/projects/xfce4/files/mirror/xfce-4.2.3.1
>http://de.lunar-linux.org/xfce4/
>http://www.webkot.be/~pollux/xfce/xfce-4.2.3.1/
>http://hannelore.f1.fhtw-berlin.de/mirrors/xfce4/xfce-4.2.3.1/
>
>Summary of changes between Xfce 4.2.2 and 4.2.3.1:
>
>General:
>
>    * New languages (in ISO 639 language code order): Afrikaans (af), 
>      Armenian (hy), Slovenian (sl).
>    * New documentation: Hebrew (he).
>    * Updated languages (in ISO 639 language code order): Belorussian
>(be), 
>      Catalan (ca), German (de), Greek (el), Esperanto (eo), Basque
>(eu), 
>      Finnish (fi), Hebrew (he), Hungarian (hu), Italian (it), Japanese
>(ja),
>      Korean (ko), Lithuanian (lt), Dutch (nl), Polish (pl), 
>      Brazilian Portuguese (pt_BR), Romanian (ro), Swedish (sv), 
>      Traditional Chinese (zh_TW).
>
>appfinder:
>
>    * Corrected a misspelling (bug #1164).
>
>libxfcegui4:
>
>    * Add gui-enum-types to make pyxfce enums work nicer.
>    * Fix leak in xfce icon theme (opendir handle not closed sometimes, 
>      using up all available file descriptors for the process).
>    * Make apps startup on correct workspace.
>    * Properly run command with arguments in terminal.
>    * Make dialog windows appears on the correct screen.
>    * Memory leak fix.
>    * Ellipsize text in taskbar buttons with gtk+ 2.6 and later
>(required for
>      gtk+ 2.8, fixes bug #1099, #1124, #1131, #1210).
>    * Fix file descriptor leak in xfceicontheme (bug #1082).
>
>panel:
>
>    * Remove button insensitivity after click, since it doesn't play
>well 
>      with newer gtk+.
>
>utils:
>
>    * Don't crash if the MCS plugin is unable to store the settings, a 
>      warning telling whats wrong will be emitted by libxfce4util (bug
>#1033).
>
>xfdesktop:
>
>    * menueditor: allow right clicking on separators to delete them (fix
>#989).
>    * backdrop: if the currently-active backdrop is removed from the
>backdrop 
>      list, reload a new backdrop after saving the new list (bug #929).
>    * backdrop: fix problem where systemwide mcs_settings/desktop.xml
>isn't 
>      used (bug #1108).
>
>xffm:
>
>    * Fix the ownership problem with smbfs mounts.
>    * Fix a bug with the remember command remembering full path and not
>file 
>      extension.
>    * Fix visual confirmation of permissions changes on files (bug
>#1061).
>    * Fix compilation error when configured with --disable-smb (bug
>#1053).
>    * Fix for the debian smb mount problem (wasn't really debian but
>all 
>      linux versions).
>
>xfprint:
>
>    * Get the cups server from the cups config (bug #918).
>    * Add support for CUPS instances (bug #1096).
>
>xfwm4:
>
>    * Fix frame corners not being properly updated in some case.
>    * Fix startup notification properties not being applied.
>    * Fix theme list not being updated (bug #1024).
>    * Don't unset the maximize flag unless the actual window size has
>changed
>      (fix bug #1129).
>    * Don't follow NET_CURRENT_DESKTOP event if specified value is out
>of 
>      range. This fixes issues with KDE systray apps (bug #1140).
>    * Be smarter when showing/hiding sidewalk windows, that greatly
>improves 
>      panel autohide feature.
>    * Check for version 0.2 instead of 1.0 for xcomposite extension as 
>      suggested by bcowan at gentoo.org (bug #1177).
>    * Backport compositor fix from SVN trunk.
>    * Check if the requested workspace is within the current limits
>before 
>      switching.
>    * Make the WM more permissive with above/below states for
>transients, 
>      fixes issues with a few KDE apps (bug #1207).
>
>
>Enjoy!
>
>The Xfce development team.
>
>
>
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Question: What is the difference between the pkg xxx.rpm-r89.tar.bz2 and 
xxx.rpm.fdr.tar.bz2 insofar as installing under SuSE 10 is concerned?

Thanks

dj tuchler

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Best regards,

Dennis J. Tuchler
University City, Missouri 63130
USA