• Team upload.
• New upstream version 0.6.3.
• d/rules: Drop –as-needed, default now in stable.
• Update Standards-Version to 4.6.1.

• Team upload.

[ Yves-Alexis Perez ]

• New upstream version 4.17.2

[ Unit 193 ]

• Update Standards-Version to 4.6.1.

• New upstream version 0.17.
• d/control: Drop old Xubuntu Breaks/Replaces.
• d/copyright: Update years and paths.
• Update Standards-Version to 4.6.1.

• New release

• xfsettingsd: Fix recursive lock in libX11 (Fixes #369)
• build: Fix intltool lock file problem during make distcheck
• Translation Updates: Armenian (Armenia), Belarusian, Catalan, English (Canada), English (United Kingdom), Estonian, Galician, Greek, Indonesian, Kazakh, Korean, Lithuanian, Malay, Occitan (post 1500), Polish, Romanian, Swedish

This release deprecates elementary-xfce-darker, transitions some monochrome icons back to colored for better legibility in dark/bright themes, drops lots of legacy symlinks (stock_, gnome-) and adds lots of mimetype icons.

• Deprecate elementary-xfce-darkest
• Add programming language mimetypes
• Add system package mimetypes
• Add lightdm settings, mugshot icons
• Add 24px symbolic icons for Thunar 4.17 toolbar
• Add symbolic view icons for Thunar 4.17 toolbar
• Add missing 96px mimetypes, symlinks
• Add USB Hard Drive, IEEE1394 device icons
• Add firewall icon at all sizes, gufw app symlink
• Update index.theme to match directory tree
• Update some settings/app icons
• Update media playback icons
• Update border/shadow style for common mimetypes
• Update archive action icons
• Update and fix some mimetypes
• Update some app names, symlinks, remove unused
• Update Wifi icons at 48px, remove old
• Update some app names and symlinks, remove unused
• Update find action icon
• Fix symbolic media-skip from being media-seek
• Fix issue where xfsm icons don't show in darker
• Fix blurry software-update icon, update others
• Fix blurry symlink emblem in 0.16 release
• Remove and replace start-here
• Remove gnome- prefixed device icon symlinks
• Remove icon causing cache update error (Fixes #305)
• Remove unused symlinks from actions
• Remove stock icon symlinks from actions
• Remove unused mimetypes
• Remove unused places icons
• Remove unused categories symlinks
• Remove Stock and Tools folders
• Remove redhat, novell icons
• Remove 22px size mimes
• Remove "gnome-" prefixed mimes
• Remove unused, rename misnamed app icons (#273)
• Refresh folder icon emblems
• Refresh a few Xubuntu default app icons
• Make window-close visible in dark and light themes
• Use package mimetype from upsteam
• Rename battery icons, remove legacy battery icons
• Cleanup app icons
• Session icon fixes
• ci: Add GitHub action to test for dangling symlinks

All the heavy lifting was done by @newhoa 🎉

• Minimize delta with Debian: remaining changes:
  • Bump epoch (change committed on git)
  • add unity integration
  • update preferences file.
  • add Ubuntu patches:
    • 04_let_crasher_for_apport.patch
    • 05_default_to_irc_ubuntu_com.patch
    • 10_docklet_default_off.patch
    • 11_buddy_list_really_show.patch
    • 13_sounds_and_timers.patch
    • 60_1024x600_gtkpounce.c.patch
    • 60_1024x600_gtkprefs.c.patch
    • pounce-webview.patch

Darkbar is a tool for pixel perfectionists and dark mode users. It allows you to control whether an application uses dark or light styles for the window controls. It supports X11 and XWayland windows using traditional titlebars (e.g. no client side decorations) like you might find with The GIMP or Electron-based applications.

What’s New?

Darkbar 1.0.0 and 1.0.1 improve support for Flatpak installations and extend support to GNOME and other desktop environments supporting the FreeDesktop.org dark style preference. And for the first time, Darkbar is available on Flathub!

New Features

• Support for the FreeDesktop.org dark style preference

• Support for user-defined window controls (minimize, maximize, close) layout (#6)

• Support for running under Wayland (only for Xwayland windows) (#12)

• Added default style preference for new identified windows (#3)

Bug Fixes

• Ignore windows that cannot be identified or lack and XID

• Reload the window list if invalid windows are encountered

Ignored Applications

Windows that cannot be controlled by Darkbar.

• Chrome/Edge PWA and web app windows (always drawn by the app)

• elementary OS apps (always uses CSD)

• Zoom join windows (join?, always unique)

Flatpak Support

• Improved app identification and icon support (#8)

• Switch to using sandboxed xprop, no more spawning apps outside of the sandbox

• X11 is now enforced, guaranteeing Xwayland windows can be correctly detected

• Reduced requested permissions

Updated Translations

Chinese, Chinese (China), Dutch, French, Italian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Malay, Malay (Arabic), Polish, Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish

Desktop Environment Support

To be able to use Darkbar, your desktop environment’s window manager needs to support dark style variants. Darkbar has been tested and proven to work with Gala (as found in the Pantheon desktop environment on elementary OS) and Mutter (GNOME’s window manager). It does not work with Xfwm, the Xfce window manager, at this time.

How to Get Darkbar

Darkbar is packaged as a Flatpak on the elementary OS AppCenter and on Flathub. If you are averse to Flatpaks (I’m sure you have your reasons), you can also find the building and installation instructions on GitHub.

I hope you enjoy using Darkbar and that it helps make your desktop experience more consistent. If you do, consider sending me a tip on AppCenter or on GitHub Sponsors!

• Team upload.
• New upstream version 4.17.2.
  • Drop patch applied upstream.
• d/control:
  • Bump DH compat to 13, drop old dpkg-dev build-depend.
  • Require libxfce4util-dev (>= 4.17.1~)
• d/libtumbler-1-0.symbols: Update symbols.
• d/tumbler.install: Install usr/lib/systemd/ now.
• Update Standards-Version to 4.6.1.

[Please note that this is a development release.]

• Bug Fixes:
  • Yet another fix to the modification time storage format