Howl 0.4.1 released!

We are very happy to announce the release of Howl 0.4.1 (download available here). This is a minor maintenance release, and as such it contains mainly compatibility fixes for a few bigger issues:

Support for theming changes in newer Gtk versions

Newer versions of Gtk+ 3 introduced changes with regards to custom theming, resulting in the following error when trying to start Howl:

(howl:2048): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error: <data>:11:31: Using Pango syntax for the font: style property is deprecated; please use CSS syntax

Fix Howl UI layout for some version/combination of WM/compositor, etc.

As seen on ElementaryOS, there was a problem that manifested itself as a very wide margin outside of the actual Howl window. Issue 200 has more information.

FreeBSD build fixes

Thanks to maxc01 Howl now builds cleanly out of the box on FreeBSD without the need for any patches (still requires gmake though).

Themable scrollbars

Scrollbars can now be themed as well (requires newer versions of Gtk). While this may not sound like a show stopper in itself, the lack of styling became a real problem when the default scrollbar color blended in to well with a theme, in effect making it invisible.