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  • xfdesktop-4.15.1 protected
    27769034 · Updates for release ·
    4.15.1
    
    - Add keywords to .desktop files in xfdesktop
    - Add 24px and 32px icons
    - Remove extra separator from context menu
    - Move 'Open in New Window' of root window context menu (#59)
    - Remove "Properties..." entry from desktop context menu (#59)
    - Translation Updates:
      Albanian, Amharic, Arabic, Armenian (Armenia), Basque, Belarusian,
      Belarusian (Tarask), Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (China), Chinese
      (Hong Kong), Chinese (Taiwan), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch,
      Eastern Armenian, English (Australia), English (Canada), English
      (United Kingdom), Estonian, Finnish, French, Galician, Georgian,
      German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Interlingue,
      Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Korean, Lithuanian, Malay, Norwegian
      Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Occitan (post 1500), Persian (Iran),
      Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil), Romanian, Russian, Serbian,
      Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian,
      Uyghur, Uzbek
  • xfdesktop-4.16.0 protected
    adf33cff · Updates for release ·
    4.16.0
    
    - Drop autogenerated xfce-backdrop-settings.desktop.in from git
    - Set new wallpaper as default
    - Add wallpaper for 4.16
    - settings: Drop subtitle
    - Remove GLIB_CHECK_VERSION IFDEFs which are obsolete after glib bump
    - bump glib (and gio, gthread, etc) minimum to 2.50.0
    - Remove GSourceFunc casts
    - Avoid warning, pointer target in assignment differ in signedness
    - Translation Updates:
      Chinese (China), Danish, Greek, Norwegian Nynorsk, Slovenian
  • xfdesktop-4.16.1 protected
    acaacf70 · Updates for release ·
    4.16.1
    
    - Resolve deadlock on background change (Issue #188)
    - Allocate memory after error processing
    - Remove unused function call (Issue #157)
    - autoconf: Remove AC_HEADER_STDC
    - Do not delete property not set
    - Set a pixmap XID, not the XID of the root window (#62)
    - Fix next background (!16)
    - build: Fix intltool lock file problem during make distcheck
    - Increase opacity of xfce-verticals bg (Fixes #125)
    - Fix Applications Menu memory leak (Bug #102)
    - Fix gettext extraction from settings/xfce-backdrop-settings.desktop.in.in
    - Translation Updates:
      Albanian, Amharic, Arabic, Armenian (Armenia), Asturian, Azerbaijani,
      Basque, Belarusian, Belarusian (Tarask), Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese
      (China), Chinese (Hong Kong), Chinese (Taiwan), Croatian, Czech,
      Danish, Dutch, Eastern Armenian, English (Australia), English
      (Canada), English (United Kingdom), Estonian, Finnish, French,
      Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic,
      Indonesian, Interlingue, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Korean,
      Lithuanian, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Occitan
      (post 1500), Persian (Iran), Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil),
      Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish,
      Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uyghur, Uzbek
  • xfdesktop-4.17.0 protected
    9a322e2a · Updates for release ·
    4.17.0
    
    - Copy file instead of overwrite for DND
    - Resolve deadlock on background change (Issue #188)
    - Set default working directory for .desktop files
    - build: Fix intltool lock file problem during make distcheck
    - Improve warning about registering background with AccountsService.
    - Fix wording
    - Fix indentation
    - Strip only known icon suffix
    - Use `icon_name` variable instead of hard-coded value
    - Remove unnecessary `else`
    - Allocate memory after error processing
    - Fix indentation
    - Remove redundant code
    - Remove unused function call (Issue #157)
    - Add option to disable "Delete" menu entry in context menu (!22)
    - Use a more specific device eject label (!24)
    - Ask for confirmation before desktop icons are rearanged (Issue #128)
    - Increase opacity of xfce-verticals bg (Fixes #125)
    - Set default tooltip icon size to 64 (!17)
    - Fix compilation warnings
    - autoconf: Remove AC_HEADER_STDC
    - Do not delete property not set
    - Set a pixmap XID, not the XID of the root window (#62)
    - Fix Applications Menu memory leak (Bug #102)
    - Fix next background (!16)
    - Fix gettext extraction from settings/xfce-backdrop-settings.desktop.in.in
    - Translation Updates:
      Albanian, Amharic, Arabic, Armenian (Armenia), Asturian, Azerbaijani,
      Basque, Belarusian, Belarusian (Tarask), Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese
      (China), Chinese (Hong Kong), Chinese (Taiwan), Croatian, Czech,
      Danish, Dutch, Eastern Armenian, English (Australia), English
      (Canada), English (United Kingdom), Estonian, Finnish, French,
      Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic,
      Indonesian, Interlingue, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Korean,
      Lithuanian, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Occitan
      (post 1500), Persian (Iran), Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil),
      Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish,
      Thai, Ukrainian, Uyghur, Uzbek
  • xfdesktop-4.17.1 protected
    0cbe2819 · Updates for release ·
    4.17.1
    
    - doc: README.xfconf: fix missing type for 'primary' attribute
    - xfce-desktop: give the 'primary' property a more clear description
    - harmonize build-time option USE_DESKTOP_MENU to ENABLE_DESKTOP_MENU
    - Fix windowlist icon blurriness when UI scale factor != 1
    - Don't use deprecated xfce_spawn_*() functions
    - Ignore deprecation warnings from libwnck functions
    - Fix blurriness in window icons when UI scale != 1
    - Fix blurry drag icon when UI scale != 1
    - Fix warnings in settings dialog
    - Make background previews less blurry when UI scale factor != 1
    - Fix blurry rendering of special file icons in settings dialog
    - Fix tooltip icon blurriness when UI scale factor != 1
    - Remove single-file thunar transfer function
    - Support dropping multiple icons onto another icon
    - Better context menu population with multiple selected icons
    - Allow showing file properties when multiple are selected
    - Fix blurry desktop icons when UI scaling != 1
    - Fix blurry background when UI scaling != 1
    - Fix incorrect args to gtk_widget_queue_draw_area()
    - Properly handle UI scale factor
    - Allow ejecting unmounted volumes
    - settings: fix memleak on background directory change
    - settings: select first image when directory changes
    - settings: rename some confusingly-named variables
    - Make removable volume tooltop more consistent with the others
    - Follow global gtk-menu-images setting for icon context menus
    - Implement better keyboard typeahead navigation
    - Call file manager launch API asynchronously
    - Possibly fix issues finding icon locations in the rc file
    - Support for menu item "set default application"
    - Output compile_flags.txt
    - Clean up resources better on exit
    - Properly free string array when transferring multiple files
    - Prevent more than one root menu popping up at the same time
    - Refactor how root menu population works
    - Use proper X11 screen number for enumerating windows
    - Fix X11 multiscreen support
    - Fix build when desktop icons are disabled
    - Fix icon view drawing glitches
    - Fix crash when selected icon changed workspaces
    - Revert "Fall back to exo-csource if xdt-csource isn't found"
    - Fall back to exo-csource if xdt-csource isn't found
    - Translation Updates:
      Albanian, Basque, Bulgarian, Chinese (China), Chinese (Taiwan),
      Czech, Danish, Dutch, English (United Kingdom), Estonian, French,
      Galician, German, Greek, Hebrew, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese,
      Kazakh, Lithuanian, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Occitan (post 1500),
      Persian (Iran), Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian,
      Serbian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Ukrainian
  • xfdesktop-4.17.2 protected
    ad9ea1ba · Updates for release ·
    4.17.2
    
    - Improve behavior when changing folders in settings dialog
    - Revert "settings: select first image when directory changes"
    - Improve icon area invalidation
    - Clean up desktop icon pixbuf loading a little bit
    - bump copyright year to 2022
    - Make file transfer d-bus operations async
    - Translation Updates:
      Albanian, Amharic, Arabic, Armenian (Armenia), Asturian, Azerbaijani,
      Basque, Belarusian, Belarusian (Tarask), Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese
      (China), Chinese (Hong Kong), Chinese (Taiwan), Croatian, Czech,
      Danish, Dutch, Eastern Armenian, English (Australia), English
      (Canada), English (United Kingdom), Estonian, Finnish, French,
      Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic,
      Indonesian, Interlingue, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Korean,
      Lithuanian, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Occitan
      (post 1500), Persian (Iran), Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil),
      Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish,
      Thai, Ukrainian, Uyghur, Uzbek
  • xfdesktop-4.18.0 protected
    4c1598a9 · Updates for release ·
    4.18.0
    
    - build: Bump requirements for Xfce 4.18
    - Adding wallpapers of Xfce4.18 wallpaper contest
    - Adding wallpapers of Xfce4.18 wallpaper contest
    - Translation Updates:
      German, Greek, Hungarian, Norwegian Bokmål, Occitan (post 1500),
      Russian, Serbian
  • xfdesktop-4.18.1 protected
    ae9556e4 · Updates for release ·
    4.18.1
    
    - Load removable volume information asynchronously
    - Fix apps menu not popping up when menu icons disabled
    - Translation Updates:
      Albanian, Amharic, Arabic, Armenian (Armenia), Asturian, Azerbaijani,
      Basque, Belarusian, Belarusian (Tarask), Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese
      (China), Chinese (Hong Kong), Chinese (Taiwan), Croatian, Czech,
      Danish, Dutch, Eastern Armenian, English (Australia), English
      (Canada), English (United Kingdom), Estonian, Finnish, French,
      Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic,
      Indonesian, Interlingue, Italian, Kazakh, Korean, Lithuanian, Malay,
      Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Occitan (post 1500), Persian
      (Iran), Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil), Romanian, Russian,
      Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Ukrainian,
      Uyghur, Uzbek
  • xfdesktop-4.19.0 protected
    3ec9f63b · Updates for release ·
    4.19.0
    
    - Fix warnings
    - xfdesktop: dither backdrop gradients to reduce color banding
    - Add preliminary Wayland support using libxfce4windowing
    - Fix minor coding style issues
    - Avoid drawing gradient to temporary surface
    - backdrop: render gamma-correct gradients
    - Fix a couple dangling mnemonic-widget properties
    - Set all icon appearance settings insensitive when disabled
    - Modernize GObject usage in XfdesktopThumbnailer
    - Fix crash when request timer active after finalize
    - Update my email address everywhere
    - Move file icons settings to its own section
    - Remove deprecated widgets from settings UI
    - Update glade files to latest version
    - Free cached GarconMenu in menu_cleanup()
    - Remove unused show_delete_option var in menu.c
    - Disconnect xfconf signal in menu_cleanup()
    - Free cached GarconMenu when apps menu is disabled
    - Load removable volume information asynchronously
    - Fix apps menu not popping up when menu icons disabled
    - Translation Updates:
      Albanian, Amharic, Arabic, Armenian (Armenia), Asturian, Azerbaijani,
      Basque, Belarusian, Belarusian (Tarask), Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese
      (China), Chinese (Hong Kong), Chinese (Taiwan), Croatian, Czech,
      Danish, Dutch, Eastern Armenian, English (Australia), English
      (Canada), English (United Kingdom), Estonian, Finnish, French,
      Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic,
      Indonesian, Interlingue, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Korean,
      Lithuanian, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Occitan
      (post 1500), Persian (Iran), Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil),
      Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish,
      Thai, Ukrainian, Uyghur, Uzbek
  • xfdesktop-4.19.1 protected
    26fa814e · Updates for release ·
    4.19.1
    
    - Fix configure configuration summary
    - Use new XDT_CHECK_OPTIONAL_FEATURE & XDT_CHECK_PACKAGE_BINARY
    - autogen.sh: fix xfce4-dev-tools dependency version
    - Clean up autogenerated source file build rules
    - Generate final settings .desktop file in one pass
    - Drop dependency on xdt-csource and use glib-compile-resources
    - Fix substitution of GETTEXT_PACKAGE for automake
    - build: Drop intltool dependency
    - main: Fix control (always) reach end of non void function
    - Load icons in icon view a symbolic/theme-aware manner
    - Set default debug based on git/not-git
    - Missed a xfdesktop_version -> xdt_version in configure.ac
    - Eliminate need for pre-processed configure.ac.in
    - Remove unused file icon rendering code
    - Draw cut file icons as insensitive
    - Don't make icon translucent when window not focused
    - Allow opening multiple selected folder icons from context menu
    - Restore old behavior of allowing thumbnails to be wider
    - Ditch GtkCellLayout impl for XfdesktopIconView
    - Support for cascading custom actions (#221)
    - Ensure workarea is updated when UI scale factor changes
    - Set background color for icon labels in fallback theme
    - More/better menu/windowlist cleanup on exit
    - Place new files in the location they were dropped
    - Pop up window action menu on windowlist item right click
    - Simplify/improve right-click menu population
    - Move some of icon item state management to model
    - Use GIcon throughout the icon view
    - Make the icon view not know about workarea
    - Underline icon text when prelit in single-click mode
    - Allow pasting window titles via DnD
    - Harmonize constants in code & UI definition
    - Properly thread UI scale factor to file icon loading functions
    - DRY up the icon models with a base class
    - DRY up the cursor movement code a bit
    - Don't use weird pointer values as a tombstone
    - Make tooltip fetching/showing simpler, and cache surfaces
    - Move pixbuf cache to XfdesktopIconView
    - Make XfdesktopIcon::activated not a signal
    - Remove unneeded XfdesktopIcon functionality
    - Remove XfdesktopWindowIcon
    - Refactor icon view widget
    - Fix/augment heuristic for determining settings window on Wayland
    - Translation Updates:
      Albanian, Amharic, Arabic, Armenian (Armenia), Asturian, Azerbaijani,
      Basque, Belarusian, Belarusian (Tarask), Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese
      (China), Chinese (Hong Kong), Chinese (Taiwan), Croatian, Czech,
      Danish, Dutch, Eastern Armenian, English (Australia), English
      (Canada), English (United Kingdom), Estonian, Finnish, French,
      Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic,
      Indonesian, Interlingue, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Korean,
      Lithuanian, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Occitan
      (post 1500), Persian (Iran), Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil),
      Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish,
      Thai, Ukrainian, Uyghur, Uzbek
  • xfdesktop-4.19.2 protected
    965da07c · Updates for release ·
    4.19.2
    
    - Fix critical warning when disabling window icons
    - Update for new libxfce4windowing workspace API
    - Fix issue with XfceDesktop->workspace_manager NULL on realize
    - Don't react to GdkScreen::monitors-changed if no monitors
    - Update for `xfw_window_x11_get_xid()` in `libxfce4windowing-4.19.3`
    - Fix crash when primary monitor is not set
    - Avoid showing non-removable drives/volumes on the desktop
    - Add CI builds for --disable-x11 and --disable-wayland
    - ifdef out unusued code in settings dialog when X11 is disabled
    - Fix build when X11 support disabled
    - Make DEFAULT_BACKDROP configurable at build time
    - Close rc file under sanity check
    - I18n: Update po/LINGUAS list
    - I18n: Update po/LINGUAS list
    - I18n: Update po/LINGUAS list
    - Fix desktop window positioning on multi-monitor Wayland
    - Remove inaccurate comment
    - Pass event button on menu popup when it's a release event as well
    - Fix spacing/layout in new settings tab for consistency
    - Move File/Launcher icons settings to a separate tab
    - Add pref for label underline when in single click mode
    - Translation Updates:
      Albanian, Amharic, Arabic, Armenian (Armenia), Asturian, Azerbaijani,
      Basque, Belarusian, Belarusian (Tarask), Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese
      (China), Chinese (Hong Kong), Chinese (Taiwan), Croatian, Czech,
      Danish, Dutch, Eastern Armenian, English (Australia), English
      (Canada), English (United Kingdom), Estonian, Finnish, French,
      Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic,
      Indonesian, Interlingue, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Korean,
      Lithuanian, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Occitan
      (post 1500), Persian (Iran), Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil),
      Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish,
      Thai, Ukrainian, Uyghur, Uzbek
  • xfdesktop-4.7.0 protected
    0c39e62b · Updates for release. ·
    Xfdesktop 4.7.0
    ---------------
    
      * Depend on exo-1 (0.5).
      * Drop dependency on libxfcegui4 and use libxfce4ui.
      * Remove the menu panel plugin, this is now included in the panel.
      * Remove various .desktop files for the menu, those are now
        included in the packages they belong to (exo, utils and session).
      * Remove the .directory files, those are now shipped with Garcon.
      * Drop the libxfce4menu dependency and use Garcon.
      * Build documentation during make dist.
      * Allow DnD to image list in settings dialog (bug 4337).
      * Refactor drawing routines in XfdesktopIconView to remove most
        flicker and most if not all repaint glitches.
      * Use cairo to draw the rounded text label background instead of
        the hacky PNG composition method.
      * Make the text label corner roundness configurable via a gtkrc
        style property.
      * Call to org.xfce.FileManager.DisplayFileProperties() for the
        full-featured file properties dialog before falling back to our
        own (bug 5622).
      * Translation updates: ca, kk, pt, it, da, zh_TW, de, he, id, hr,
        fr, ru, si.
  • xfdesktop-4.7.1 protected
    1b2ffbca · Release 4.7.1! ·
    Tag the 4.7.1 release.
  • xfdesktop-4.7.2 protected
    ef416677 · Release 4.7.2! ·
    Tag the 4.7.2 release.
  • xfdesktop-4.7.3 protected
    8578b2df · Updates for release. ·
    Xfdesktop 4.7.3
    ---------------
    
      * Fix a crash caused by accessing the wrong variable when adding
        items to the right-click menu.
      * Select the correct icon style in the desktop settings on first
        start (bug #6798).
      * Depend on libwnck >= 2.22 so we no longer have to implement hacks
        for the two different "active-workspace-changed" signal variants
        in libwnck (bug #6638).
      * Add menu item monitoring.
      * Fix critical when session manager is not running (bug #6822).
      * Remove checks for older GLib/GTK+ versions that are no longer needed.
      * Allow workspace names that start with a number (bug #6318).
      * Delay notification initialization until we show one.
      * Set the correct session priority.
      * Do not call gtk_widget_show() on menus (bug #6198).
      * Translation updates: gl, ca, de, it, kk, fi, sk, pt, uk, el,
        zh_TW, da, id, eu, hu, lt.
  • xfdesktop-4.7.4 protected
    527bb7fa · Release 4.7.4! ·
    Tag the 4.7.4 release.
  • xfdesktop-4.7.5 protected
    dffbf87e · Updates for release. ·
    Xfdesktop 4.7.5
    ---------------
    
      * Work around Gtk 2.16 function (bug #6883).
      * Translation updates: sk, ru, cs, en_GB, lt, sv, nb, ar, pt).
  • xfdesktop-4.8.0 protected
    6e73a6d0 · Release 4.8.0! ·
    Tag the 4.8.0 release.
  • xfdesktop-4.8.1 protected
    2a15743d · Release 4.8.1! ·
    Tag the 4.8.1 release.
  • xfdesktop-4.8.2 protected
    5f94e7c6 · Updates for release. ·
    Xfdesktop 4.8.2
    ---------------
      * Fix a crash on focus in when items are selected (bug #7313).
        Reported and fixed by Ambroz Bizjak.
      * Retrieve the translated desktop file name.
      * Fix potential crash in xfdesktop-settings (bug #7301).
      * Fix creation of empty file from template menu (bug #7230).
      * Stop altering the root window pixmap to avoid X crash (bug #7442).
      * Translation updates: Ukrainian, Turkish, Lithuanian, Swedish,
        Danish, Chinese, Romanian, Kazakh.