ANNOUNCE: xfdashboard 0.4.0 released

[Olivier Duchateau]

On Sat, 11 Apr 2015 21:15:38 +0200
Stephan Haller <nomad at froevel.de> wrote:

> xfdashboard-0.4.0 "308 days + 263 commits = 0.4.0" was released on
> 2015-04-11.
> 
> This is a stable release.

Great, many thanks!

> 
> 
> About xfdashboard
> =================
> 
> Maybe a Gnome shell like dashboard for Xfce
> 
> Website: 
>   http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/applications/xfdashboard/start
> 
> Documentation:
>   http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/applications/xfdashboard/manual
> 
> Bugs/issues/enhancements:
>   https://bugzilla.xfce.org/
>   https://github.com/gmc-holle/xfdashboard/issues
> 
> Translations:
>   https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/xfdashboard
> 
> FAQ:
>   http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/applications/xfdashboard/faq
> 
> 
> Release notes for 0.4.0
> ========================
> 
> * Notice: Raised minimum version of Glib to 2.32 as too much
>   macros are used that were introduce with this version
> * Notice: Replaced dependency on libray libwnck-1.0 with
>   libwnck-3.0 (minimum version 3.0). I'm afraid of mixing
>   GTK+2 and GTK+3.
> * Notice: As xfdashboard has moved to Xfce a lot of URLs have
>   changed. Bugs can now reported at Xfce's bugzilla or at Github
>   like before. Homepage, manual and FAQ moved to Xfce's goodies
>   Wiki. Releases are now hosted at Xfce.
> 
> * New features: Effects. The theme description file can have a new
>   line "Effects=..." with a semi-colon separated list of XML files
>   describing the effects. Each effects must have a unique ID. The
>   basic actor (XfdashboardActor) implements a new property called
>   "effects" which describes a space-separated list of effect IDs to
>   set at this actor. This new property is themable via CSS and all
>   XfdashboardActor derived classes inherit this feature.
> * New feature: Workaround for minimized window to get the window
>   content which is displayed in windows view. This workaround is
>   turned off by default. To turn it on you have to set the property
>   "/enable-unmapped-window-workaround" of channel xfdashboard in
>   Xfconf to true.
> * New feature: CSS parser was improved to allow defining constant
>   variables, to use built-in functions for color or file operations
>   and a command @import() to include external CSS resources
>   (GH #7, GH #8, GH #9)
> * New feature: A theme can now style how to draw mininized or
>   unmapped window. These new properties in XfdashboardLiveWindows
>   are prefixed with "unmapped-window-icon-"
> * New feature: A new layout manager called XfdashboardDynamicTableLayout
>   which is mainly be used for views using the icon mode to stop layout
>   problem which are cause by using ClutterFlowLayout before. This new
>   XfdashboardDynamicTableLayout is a layout manager which layouts
> children
>   in a dynamic table grid. Rows and columns are inserted and deleted
>   automatically depending on the number of visible child actors. Usually
>   it will prefer more columns over rows. (GH #28)
> * New feature: A new layout manager called XfdashboardBoxLayout
>   which is derived from ClutterBoxLayout and inherits all
>   functions and properties. It only disregards text direction
>   settings to enforce a horizontal left-to-right layout of its
>   children always. (GH #66)
> * New feature: Implemented configurable key-bindings. So there
>   are no more hard-coded keys in xfdashboard anymore, except for
>   ESC to clear search-box and quitting application. The application
>   will first lookup a user-defined keyboard binding configuration
>   file 'xfdashboard/bindings.xml' at user's configuration folder
>   which is ${HOME}/.config/xfdashboard/bindings.xml usually. If
>   this file is not found, it will lookup a system-wide keyboard
>   configuration file which is a default one - usually installed
>   at /usr/share/xfdashboard/bindings.xml. The application will
>   quit with error if none was found. (GH #35, GH #41)
> * New feature: Allow changing theme at run-time by modifying the
>   xfconf property "/theme". As soon as this value changes the
>   new theme is applied. Sadly this also breaks current theme API.
>   All references in CSS and XML files to class XfdashboardStage
>   have to be replaced with new actor XfdashboardStageInterface.
>   The new actor shares the same stylable properties and all
>   changes will be applied to the old actor on-the-fly. So consider
>   XfdashboardStageInterface is a one-to-one in-place replacement
>   for XfdashboardStage. (GH #59)
> * New feature: The stage can now show the real desktop's background
>   instead of being just transparent. The behaviour could be managed
>   via the CSS property 'background-image-type' with can be 'none'
>   (the default) or 'desktop' (new feature).
> * New feature: Implemented a settings application which can be
>   executed as a standalone application or via Xfce's settings
>   manager. The settings application allows to modify nearly all
>   settings which were only accessible with xfconf-query or 
>   Xfce's settings editor previously. (GH #60)
> * New feature: Added command-line parameter "--restart" to
>   application to allow replacing a running daemon instance
> * New feature: XfdashboardDesktopAppInfo is a new class wrapping
>   a GarconMenuItem and a string for the desktop ID. It also
>   implements the GAppInfo interface. So it can be used - more or
>   less - as a drop-in replacement for GDesktopAppInfo. By wrapping
>   GarconMenuItem it gains all it's advantages over GDesktopAppInfo,
>   e.g. supporting desktop file of type "Link" to start a web-browser
>   with the url specified in desktop file. Also a "Link" desktop file
>   can be added to quicklaunch. It emits a "changed" signal
>   if the desktop file was modifed. So all icons in xfdashboard
>   representing an application will be updated immediately (GH #67)
> * New feature: XfdashboardApplicationDatabase is a new class
>   combining all sources for applications. It wraps the GarconMenu
>   instance for the root menu which contains all sub-menus and menu
>   items and is used by applications view. It also loads all desktop
>   files of installed application from system-wide paths and user
>   directories. It notices all modifications to these desktop files
>   (even if a user desktop file overrides a system-wide and vice
>   versa) and sends a "changed" signal which causes the
>   XfdashboardApplicationButton to update its title, description
>   and icon. It hopefully speeds up searching applications (GH #67)
> * New feature: Implemented multi-monitor support. This also added
>   a new interface ID "secondary" to themes which specifies how
>   the stage for non-primary monitors looks like. (GH #14)
> * New themes: Thanks to lacios a bunch of new themes are added.
> 
> * Fixed reflecting geometry changes of a window in window view by
>   ensuring that XfdashboardWindowContent returns always the right
>   size of window (GH #54)
> * Fixed command-line parameter "--help" to show help again when
>   Glib version 2.40 or higher is used (GH #38)
> * Fixed memory corruption when releasing lower-case coverted strings
>   in applications search provider. This bug was seen when someone
>   tried to lookup more than one keyword in search - when space
>   was pressed. (GH #61)
> * Fixed higher CPU usage when a new window appears on screen while
>   xfdashboard is running in daemon mode and is suspended (hidden)
>   at that moment (GH #44)
> * Fixed issue that changed view icons in view selector at a theme
>   will not be applied by revalidating views on creation (GH #46)
> * Fixed handling CSD windows by skipping finding window frame
>   (GH #48)
> * Fixed case-insensitive search for applications (GH #56)
> * Allow icon of search provider in search view result container
>   to be themable (GH #46)
> * Replaced GTK+ stock icons with named icons.
> * Enforce X11 backend at Clutter to prevent start-up crashes
>   when using Clutter 1.21.4 or higher which uses GDK backend
>   by default. xfdashboard uses some X11 related function at
>   Clutter (GH #73)
> * Clear startup-notification when application enters main loop
> * Fixed crashes seen at systems running Fedora when an error
>   message was thrown because neither the requested icon nor
>   the fallback icon could be found.
> * Tons of fixed compiler warnings, fixes to build system and
>   other smaller bug fixes
> 
> * New translations:
>     - es (prflr88)
>     - he (GenghisKhan)
>     - it_IT (cri)
>     - sr (salepetronije)
>   Thanks to all translators :)
> 
> 
> Download
> ========
> 
> http://archive.xfce.org/src/apps/xfdashboard/0.4/xfdashboard-0.4.0.tar.bz2
> 
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