ANNOUNCE: xfce4-mixer 4.9.0 released

[Landry Breuil]

On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 7:24 PM, Guido Berhoerster <gber at opensuse.org> wrote:
> * Allin Cottrell <cottrell at wfu.edu> [2012-09-27 19:07]:
>> On Thu, 27 Sep 2012, Guido Berhoerster wrote:
>>
>> >Release notes for 4.9.0
>> >=======================
>> >Changes in this release:
>> >
>> >- Handle a negative minimal volume correctly.
>> >- Fix a potential NULL pointer dereference.
>> >- Do not try to destroy the mixer window twice after a delete-event
>> > (bug #8288).
>> >- Modernize build system and build panel plugin as a module.
>> [...]
>>
>> This all sounds very good, thanks!
>>
>> One comment: this version introduces a dependency on libunique,
>> about which gnome.org says, "WARNING Unique is now in maintenance
>> mode, and its usage is strongly discouraged." I think the cleaner
>> way to ensure a single instance of the program is to use the
>> GApplication API (or GtkApplication, but that's new in gtk 3.0).
>
> This release is intended to go along with Xfce 4.10 and its
> minimum requirements for glib/gtk, once a newer Xfce release
> raises the requirements to versions where these parts of the API
> are available we can easily migrate to it.

Seems to work fine on OpenBSD, no regressions compared to 4.8.0 (i
still see the same controls). Thanks for making the keybinder
dependency optional ! The new-style panel plugin is welcomed too..

Landry