News from Xfce 4.12, part 3

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 :

Listing our current forces : This thread has helped a lot to grant privileges on git, bugzilla and xfce internal services to more people. Now it’s easier to give access to a new contributors !
A proposition to do regular releases for translation updates
A Xfce mirror is now available on GitHub
Discussions around the 4.12 default Gtk+ theme. Maybe the ‘new’ xfce-refresh from ochosi
About gtk-xfce-engine, the decision has been made to drop the gtk3 engine part completely, and leave creating themes to themers https://mail.xfce.org/pipermail/xfce4-dev/2015-February/031084.html
Participation to GSoC 2015 ?
In order to attract new contributors to Xfce, a “list of easy bugs” is now available on the wiki
4.12 String freeze will be the 20 February to let translators do their job https://mail.xfce.org/pipermail/xfce4-dev/2015-February/031127.html
New discussion about the port to GTK3. Note: some components (libxfce4ui, xfce4-panel etc) already have a partial support of gtk3.
In other news, Graeme Gott’s Whisker Menu plugin is now an official Xfce project! Andrzej’s PulseAudio plugin also joining the family!
The critical bug list has almost been eradicated, huge congrats to all developpers :)

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 :

xfce4-session :

Bugfixes, bugfixes, bugfixes !
The “logind runtime detection to support suspend/hibernate” patch has been merged.
Release of 4.11.1

thunar :

gtk-xfce-engine :

xfce4-dev-tools :

xfconf :

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

xfce4-screenshooter :

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

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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