ANNOUNCE: thunar 4.21.0 released

Tue Mar 25 21:08:55 CET 2025

> > 1. The new, now recommended way using meson fails early due to
> > cannot locate ITS rules for org.xfce.thunar.policy.in

You're missing the 'polkit.its' file. Unfortunately, it's not linked to a pkg-config file, so we can't properly check for its presence. But it's odd that you find it when building with autotools and not with meson; are you building in different environments?

For the rest, the autotools build may require some adaptation with these archives, and that's normal: they're intended for use with meson, and autotools will be removed afterwards. As for the documentation, there are indeed a few elements missing, but only with autotools. It won't be fixed, the problem will disappear with this build system.

Cheers,
Gaël

On Tuesday, March 25th, 2025 at 7:04 PM, Manfred Hollstein <manfred.h at gmx.net> wrote:

> Hi again,
> 
> On Tue, 25 Mar 2025, 19:32:06 +0100, Manfred Hollstein wrote:
> 
> > Hi Alexander,
> > 
> > On Sun, 23 Mar 2025, 11:51:59 +0100, Alexander Schwinn wrote:
> > 
> > > thunar 4.21.0 is now available for download from
> > 
> > thanks for the new development release! I just tried to build it, but
> > failed unfortunately:
> > 
> > 1. The new, now recommended way using meson fails early due to
> > cannot locate ITS rules for org.xfce.thunar.policy.in
> > 
> > Diffing file org.xfce.thunar.policy.in with 4.20's version showed no
> > difference, so I thought I'd go the ./autogen.sh way; but:
> > 
> > 2. after generating configure etc., running make shows:
> > 
> > make[3]: *** No rule to make target 'thunarx-visibility.c', needed by 'libthunarx_3_la-thunarx-visibility.lo'. Stop.
> > 
> > 3. After adding --enable-maintainer-mode to the configure command, the
> > missing file gets generated.
> > 
> > The various docfiles which get generated during, at least 4.20's, build
> > process, however, don't land in --docdir=%{_datadir}/xfce4/thunar, which
> > is why I have disabled building docs at all:
> > 
> > --disable-gtk-doc
> 
> 
> further testing shows that this is not necessary. I'm back with
> 
> --enable-gtk-doc
> 
> but needed to rewrite the related %files section in my .spec file from
> 
> %doc %{_datadir}/gtk-doc/html/thunarx
> 
> to
> 
> %dir %{_datadir}/gtk-doc/html/thunarx
> %doc %{_datadir}/gtk-doc/html/thunarx/*
> 
> > I believe the released tarball needs some rebuilding.
> 
> 
> This remains true.
> 
> HTH, cheers.
> 
> l8er
> manfred
> 
> > > https://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/thunar/4.21/thunar-4.21.0.tar.xz
> > > https://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/thunar/4.21/thunar-4.21.0.tar.xz?sha1
> > > https://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/thunar/4.21/thunar-4.21.0.tar.xz?sha256
> > > 
> > > What is thunar?
> > > ===============
> > > 
> > > Thunar is a modern file manager for the Xfce Desktop Environment. It has
> > > been designed from the ground up to be fast and easy-to-use. Its user
> > > interface is clean and intuitive, and does not include any confusing or
> > > useless options. Thunar is fast and responsive with a good start up time
> > > and directory load time. Thunar is accessible using Assistive
> > > Technologies and is fully standards compliant.
> > > 
> > > Website:
> > > https://docs.xfce.org/xfce/thunar/start
> > > 
> > > Release notes for 4.21.0
> > > ========================
> > > Development release on the master branch
> > > 
> > > 4.21.0 (2025-03-23)
> > > ======
> > > - Fix crash in properties dialog (#1585)
> > > - Replace deprecated exo with libxfce4ui 4.21.0
> > > - docs: Fix unused declarations warning
> > > - build: Bump some min versions and remove #ifdefs
> > > - Set minimum size of filename input image
> > > - Merge ExoJob Into ThunarJob
> > > - file: Don't use deprecated exo_str_is_empty
> > > - Improve error message on copy fail (#1570)
> > > - Fix invalid filenames when copying to exFAT FS (#1570)
> > > - Fix typo in preferences dialog
> > > - Hide shortcuts editor when accel map uninitialized (#1488)
> > > - scan-build: Add false positive file
> > > - scan-build: Fix core.uninitialized.Assign
> > > - scan-build: Fix core.NullDereference
> > > - scan-build: Fix deadcode.DeadStores
> > > - gcc-analyzer: Add false positive file
> > > - gcc-analyzer: Fix -Wanalyzer-possible-null-argument
> > > - gcc-analyzer: Fix -Wanalyzer-null-dereference
> > > - gcc-analyzer: Fix -Wanalyzer-use-of-uninitialized-value
> > > - gcc-analyzer: Fix -Wanalyzer-possible-null-dereference
> > > - build: Automate copyright year management
> > > - Add meson build
> > > - docs: Remove thunar directory
> > > - build: Migrate to xdt-gen-visibility and xdt-check-abi
> > > - build: Make libx11 optional and use XDT_CHECK_OPTIONAL_FEATURE
> > > - build: Preliminary cleanup
> > > - properties-dialog: Improve size label strings
> > > - properties-dialog: Add tooltip to "Original Path"
> > > - properties-dialog: Relocate "Deleted" line
> > > - properties-dialog: Remove link target from type description
> > > - Update statusbar when searching (#1560)
> > > - image-preview: Use italics for the size label
> > > - image-preview: Do not rely on xfconf value for visibility toggle
> > > - image-preview: Properly initialize the preview on startup
> > > - I18n: Update po/LINGUAS list
> > > - Always update statusbar on file changes in list view (#1560)
> > > - Add List view hotkeys to shortcuts editor tab (#1556)
> > > - Fix item activation on double-click in list view (#1567)
> > > - Use 'malloc_trim' after search (#1552)
> > > - Fix missing dialog for folder errors in list view (#1538)
> > > - Fix leak on search update
> > > - Fix leaks on "cancel search"
> > > - Update file permission related emblem names
> > > - properties-dialog: Use file type icon as window icon
> > > - Fix missing dialog window icon (#1506)
> > > - Properly check if a file can be trashed (#1554)
> > > - Improve widgets in properties dialog (#1537)
> > > - Fix wrong selection after rename in list view (#1415)
> > > - build: Get rid of maintainer mode where gdbus-codegen is used
> > > - Prevent location bar crash (#1539)
> > > - Reallow sorting in search mode (#1528)
> > > - drop = in -export-symbols-regex arg
> > > - Hide the launcher for thunar-settings (#1530)
> > > - Fix signal emitting (#1533)
> > > - Fix GMount leak in thunar_file_get_emblem_names
> > > - Remove superfluous mutex
> > > - Store g_files separately in jobs (#1542)
> > > - thunar-tpa: Fix libxfce4panel include
> > > - Pass g_files into jobs instead of ThunarFiles (#1542)
> > > - Store g_files separately in jobs (#1542)
> > > - Ask for confirmation when deleting trashed files (#1545)
> > > - Proper renaming of XDG user dirs (#1436)
> > > - Prevent files from vanishing after save (#1535)
> > > - Fix selection after toggling hidden files visibility (#1505)
> > > - Clean up location button context menu (#1441)
> > > - Fix wrong selection after rename (#1415)
> > > - build: Dist thunar-{thumbnailer,thumbnail-cache}-dbus.xml
> > > - thunarx.symbols: Add missing thunarx_provider_module_*
> > > - Do not save view settings when searching (#1502)
> > > - Select instead activate on DnD into toolbar (#1492)
> > > - Prevent crash when removing location button (#1507)
> > > - Fix throttling of selection updates (#1508) (#1515)
> > > - Make toolbar inside header-bar transparent (#1514)
> > > - Add setting to show non hidden folders/files first (#263)
> > > - Fix appstream metainfo (#1512)
> > > - Prevent crash when loading mount point emblem (#1511)
> > > - remove superflous spaces in strings (#1501)
> > > 
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