Xfce 4.4.1

Three months later then version 4.4, Xcfe present its first update. Xfce is a light desktopenvironment for the *NIX OS family and aims on speed, without loss of visual aspects and userfriendly commands. Since version 4.4 Xcfe has going through a lot of changes: a new filemanager called Thunar (), various improvements related to the Window Manager, etc.. You can find more information about those improvements below or by visting the Virtual Tour (). 4.4.1 contains mostly bugfixes and additional translations. Hereby i'm proud post the full changelog:

Utilities Library (libxfce4util):

* Fix invalid g_slice_free1() in XfceRc code (Bug #2854).
* Fix bug when deleting groups.
* Do not use GMemChunk for XfceRc module as that leaks all of its memory starting with GLib 2.10 (Bug #2427).

Widget Library (libxfcegui4):

* Change 2 GPL headers to LGPL.
* Test for support of -Wall, -Werror and -errwarn=%all (Bug #2918).
* Fix aspect ratio of the pager when using viewports, required for window managers such as Beryl that use multiple viewports within one single workspace.
* Many translation updates.

Window Manager (xfwm4):

* Treat dialogs and utility windows as transients for group (Bug #3102).
* Add support for shape input with XShape extension 1.1 (Bug #3092).
* Make the title button in the xfwm4 settings manager dragable (Bug #3000).
* Fix a misinterpretation of ICCCM about when to send a synthetic configureNotify event (Bug #2977).
* Add new hidden option to instruct xfwm4 not to bring window back on current workspace when activated (Bug #2961).
* Place splash screen windows on the normal layer, so that dialogs that get mapped during startup have a chance to be placed above the splash screen.
* Raise focused window on workspace switch (Bug #2960).
* Sort Z-order on workspace change (Bug #2960).
* Fix the small lag before icon update at first map and when updating all frames at once.
* Use timeout for frame redraw, check actual WM name changes to work around apps that falsely update their WM name property (Bug #2810).
* Updated translations: Hungaria, Catalan, Italian, Polish, German, Japanese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Dutch, Chinese (simplified) and French.
* New translations: Albanian (Besnik Bleta), English (Jeff Bailes).

Desktop Manager (xfdesktop):

* Fix entries in the menu.xml files that should not have been translated.
* Add support for menu file as argument (Bug #2876).
* Remove use of __FUNCTION__ as it breaks sun's compiler (Bug #2924).
* Blurry rendering of unscaled backgrounds (Bug #2939).
* Fix uri parsing to unescape '%##' stuff in the uri (Bug #2942).
* Many translation updates.

Panel (xfce4-panel):

* Completely hide the right-click menu when kiosk mode is enabled (Bug #2984).
* Show the system tray border in the default layout and increase the top panel size to 30px, so users can actually see the system tray.
* Allow freely movable panels on the screen edges (Bug #3039).
* Improve the icon size of the actions plugin and add an option to change the orientation of the buttons (Bug #2999).
* Unhide when dragging over the panel (Bug #2914).
* Check for NULL pointers in DBG messages to prevent crashes on Solaris, based on patch from William Bonnet (Bug #2922).
* Add some checks for valid tree selection (Bug #2933).
* Many translation updates.

Settings Manager (xfce-mcs-manager):

* Test for support of -Wall, -Werror and -errwarn=%all. (Bug #2918).
* Many translation updates.

Settings Manager Plugins (xfce-mcs-plugins):

* Test for support of -Wall, -Werror and -errwarn=%all. (Bug #2919).
* Add default shortcuts for volume control using aumix.
* Do not include theme without directory or hidden in the icon theme list (Bug #2912).
* Many translation updates.

Text Editor (mousepad):

* Test for support of -Wall, -Werror and -errwarn=%all. (Bug #2921).

Printing Helper (xfprint):

* Many translation updates.

Development Tools (xfce4-dev-tools):

* Add script for generating commit messages from ChangeLogs on the fly (xdt-commit).

Utilities (xfce-utils):

* Update the AUTHORS file.
* Fix syntax error in startxfce script (Bug #3089).
* Fix insecure use of temporary file in startup script.
* Put /usr/local/share first (Bug #2967).
* Fix an issue with the syntax in startxfce4 script (Bug #2967).
* Many translation updates.

Volume Control (xfce4-mixer):

* Follow the HIG specifications on the buttons.
* Add test_vc to Makefile.am.
* Many translation updates.

Calendar and Appointments (xfcalendar):

* Bug when adding All day event from iCal. All day events were handled wrongly in Orage (Bug #3058).
* Recurring events need to happen on ending date also (Bug #2937).
* Erroneous warning when adding panel plugin (Bug #2863).
* Change field before save so that spin buttons activate always (Bug #2811).
* Many translation updates.

Application Finder (xfce4-appfinder):

* Many translation updates.

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