A bunch of news from the development of Xfce 4.12 !

Since my previous post in november (read it !) , many things have happened.

First, the most awaited news … wait for it… a date has been decided ! 4.12 will released by the last week end of February 2015 ! (yes, 1 week from now)

Now, I would like to draw your attention to a list of threads on the xfce4-dev mailist :

Core Apps :

xfce4-panel :

The intelligent panel hiding feature (see my previous post) has been released in 4.11.2 !

xfwm4 :

Oh wow, many commits, such features ! You can read the 4.11.3 announcement here

Add titleless maximization feature.

Client Side Decoration (CSD) support ! (Compositor need to be enabled). A screenshot with and without on gedit (an application that need CSD)

Windows preview in alt+tab (Compositor need to be enabled too).

Nice, right ? :)

xfce4-settings :

Release of 4.11.4

Add touchpad support with libinput (yes, already !)

Better monitor and multi monitor support

Add Gtk+ theme palettes in the appearance dialog (see screenshot)

Add previews for icon themes in appearance settings (see screenshot)

xfce4-session :

Bugfixes, bugfixes, bugfixes !

The “logind runtime detection to support suspend/hibernate” patch has been merged.

Release of 4.11.1

thunar :

Add support for the GTK 3 bookmarks file,

Bugfixes, support for binary file size units

Release of 1.6.4

gtk-xfce-engine :

Drop of gtk3 part of the engine + fixes

Release of 3.1.0

xfce4-dev-tools :

Fixes, dependencies update etc

Release of 4.11.1

xfconf :

Not many exciting changes for this release, mostly translation updates, small fixes and code tweaks.. 4.11.0

Apps :

xfce4-screenshooter :

Support of imgur uploads ! Yes !

Release of 1.8.2 . Thank gaston !

xfce4-taskmanager :

Big cleanup of UI, with new treeview mode, general UI/graph overhaul and lot of bugfixes)

Release of 1.1.0 with all theses changes. Thanks gaston, ochosi and Cavalier

xfce4-power-manager :

The famous “Please bring back the tray icon” bug got some attention, with a patch from Eric to re-add a tray icon, it need extended testing though

Release of 1.4.2

Panel Plugins :

Some love for panel plugins, from Harald Judt and Landry Breuil, mostly build/bugfixes and translations updates :

As you can see, xfce development is more active than ever !

So be prepared to be amazed by 4.12 in a few weeks !

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