Van Xfce kwam gisteren de eerste betaversie van de 4.2-branch uit. Het is een lichtgewicht desktop omgeving voor Unix-achtige besturingssystemen en richt zich op snelheid, zonder af te doen aan de visuele aspecten of gebruikersvriendelijkheid. Xfce biedt alle mogelijkheden die je van een moderne desktop omgeving mag verwachten. Het changelog deelt de volgende wijzigingen mee:
Generalxftaskbar4
- improved xinerama support
- support for partial struts in xfwm4, xftaskbar4 and xfce4-panel.
- freedesktop specifications compliance for menu and icons themes
- support for xdg basedir spec (all Xfce settings are now stored under ~/.config directory)
- support for "kiosk mode" (in which you can restrict the actions users are allowed to take) in xfce4-session, xfce4-panel, xfdesktop (see included doc/README.Kiosk files)
xfwm4
- "always group tasks" option
- selectable left/center/right alignment
- variable width
- right-click action menu
New session manager xfce4-session
- xfwm4 now has his own compositing manager (a manager for the new Xorg compositor extension, which brings true transparency to the Xfce desktop)
- support for image composition with PNG images as layers, which means that one can do gradients or anything else, and that applies to any pixmap that make the window frame
- native multihead support
- several new themes
- new themes location
- supports the "show desktop" protocol
- supports the KDE context help
- Always on top option
- icons in the "Alt+Tab" dialog
- keyboard shorcuts editor included in the xfwm settings manager dialog xfce-mcs-manager settings manager
- font rendering setup dialog
- merged Desktop workspaces and Workspaces margins dialogs (so for a 4.0.x to 4.2 upgrade, you will need to remove workspaces_settings.* and margins_plugin.* from /usr/local/lib/xfce4/mcs_plugins/ or it won't work)
- display resolution and gamma correction dialog
- customizable icons
xfdesktop
- Major performance improvements over the previous snapshot versions
- Gnome/KDE compatibility
- Native multihead support (Xinerama and multiscreen)
- doesn't rely on smproxy (or any rewrite like gnome-smproxy), but provides (partial) session management even for non-sm or X11R5-sm aware apps
- support for nice themes
xffm
- gradient support for background color
- saturation support for background image
- real multiscreen and xinerama support
- "don't set background" option to allow apps such as xplanet to be displayed correctly
- optional support for icons in window list and desktop menu
- desktop menu editor with DND support from xfce4-appfinder and .desktop files from Rox, Konqueror, Nautilus, Xffm,...
- desktop menu plugin for the panel: now you can get standard menu from either the panel or the desktop
xfce4-panel
- functional double pane
- icons theme editor
- many new features
xfce4-mixer
- simplified mcs dialog
- new positioning scheme
- new panel icon theme implementation. The panel now follows the general icon theme, that can be set in the user interface dialog.
- new way to add a plugin to the panel, using a dialog and mouse double-click
- prettier move handles
- unloading of unused modules
- backward compatibility with the Xfce Goodies plugins available from http://xfce-goodies.berlios.de/
xfce4-appfinder
- complete rewrite
xfprint
- new Xfce4 application
xfce4-icon-theme
- xfprint can now use either CUPS, BSD-LPR or a file as destination, and printers are retrieved from the printing system you choosed (no more need to add your printers to the list manually)
gtk-xfce-theme-engine
- a complete icon theme for Xfce and Gtk apps
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- new themes
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