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 (http://thunar.xfce.org), various improvements related to the Window Manager, etc.. You can find more information about those improvements below or by visting the Virtual Tour (http://www.xfce.org/about/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.

Sources:

* http://www.xfce.org/about/news?id=12
* http://www.xfce.org/download/
* http://www.xfce.org/images/about/screenshots/4.4-3.png