ANNOUNCE: xfdashboard 0.3.1 released

[Olivier Duchateau]

On Tue, 26 Aug 2014 18:35:07 +0200
Stephan Haller <nomad at froevel.de> wrote:

> xfdashboard-0.3.1 "Keys improved: faster, better, larger" was released on 2014-08-26.
> 
> This is a development release.
> 
> 
> About xfdashboard
> =================
> 
> Maybe a Gnome shell like dashboard for Xfce
> 
> Website: 
>   http://xfdashboard.froevel.de
> 
> Documentation:
>   http://xfdashboard.froevel.de/doc.html
> 
> Bugs/issues/enhancements:
>   https://github.com/gmc-holle/xfdashboard/issues
> 
> FAQ:
>   http://xfdashboard.froevel.de/faq.html
> 
> 
> Release notes for 0.3.1
> ========================
> 
> * Added new functions to CSS parser for looking up image to load from
>   a list of files called @try_icons. (Issue #9)
> * Fixed a problem when loading images and icons from SVG files. These
>   were loading in smallest possible size and them upscaled to requested
>   size which made them look ugly. This was fixed by loading them in
>   requested size directly.
> * The stage of type XfdashboardStage can now show the real desktop's
>   background instead of being just transparent. The behaviour could be
>   managed via property 'background-image-type' with can be 'none' (the
>   default) or 'desktop' (new feature).
> * Fixed a problem that a window could be closed accidently when refining
>   search by pressing the key 'backspace' and pressing it more often then
>   characters were entered before. The view will switch back from search
>   view to windows view and the additional press on key 'backspace' will
>   close the focused window. The behaviour has changed that now only the
>   key combination 'shift' and 'backspace' will close the focused window.
>   The key 'delete' will still work as before. (Issue #32)
> * Do not use functions deprecated in Cogl 1.18 when this version is used.
> * Implemented a new generic selection handling framework in focusable
>   actors implementing the interface XfdashboardFocusable. It handles
>   most of the common key press/release event like HOME and END keys to
>   select first or last selectable item at the current focused actor.
>   Currently the keys UP, DOWN, LEFT, RIGHT, HOME, END, ENTER are
>   recognized by this framework. It also recognizes if the current
>   selection is getting unavailable because the current selected actor is
>   going to be hidden or destroyed. Then it moves the selection to next
>   available and selectable actor.

It's great, screenshot [1] (devel version) under FreeBSD.

Regards

[1] https://wiki.freebsd.org/Xfce?action=AttachFile&do=view&target=xfce4-dashboard-devel.png

> 
> 
> Download
> ========
> 
> http://xfdashboard.froevel.de/releases/xfdashboard-0.3.1.tar.gz
> http://xfdashboard.froevel.de/releases/xfdashboard-0.3.1.tar.bz2
> 
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olivier