• Team upload.
• New upstream version 1.8.15.
• d/libthunarx-3-0.symbols: Set Build-Depends-Package.

TL;DR

1. No more Xfce bugs on Bountysource.com (no support for GitLab)
2. All remaining bug bounties returned to original backers
3. Xfce Team account on Bountysource remains intact for now (including all donations so far)

Some background

When we kicked off Bountysource as one way to contribute to Xfce financially, this platform really seemed to be in a different place. It supported a multitude of bugtrackers (including our own, now archived, Bugzilla instance) and the web interface was frankly much more reliable.

When Bountysource decided to change its Terms of Service yesterday (note: the ToS change has been withdrawn since) this was a bit of a wake-up call for us. Let me briefly summarize: All uncollected bounties would after a fixed amount of time would have been withdrawn and the money retained by Bountysource. I can only presume that the business model of the platform is seriously struggling if such a drastic measure is imposed on the community when at the same time the fee of withdrawing/collecting bounties is at a not exactly unconsiderable 10%.

This all comes also after a so-called “inactivity fee” was introduced in 2018, which already felt strange and made me wonder what Bountysource does with all the money it holds for its users to justify such a fee. (Just putting the money in a regular bank account while holding on to it would earn you a little interest, as opposed to costing you – inflation ignored).

In any case, even if my reasoning above is not sound, we took the decision to disable bug bounties for Xfce starting now. This is the only reasonable step because GitLab is not supported, so we don’t have any way of updating our issues or confirming that they were closed (GitHub is the only supported platform these days).

The Bountysource Support team confirmed that all existing bug bounties will be returned to the original backers by them.

Please note that this change does not affect the Xfce Team account. We haven’t decided what our next step will be there but for the time being we will leave things as they are. So you can still donate to the Team and we can withdraw that money to use it for the project (footnote: we have not withdrawn anything so far).

This is a development release of Xfdesktop aiming the upcoming release of Xfce 4.16.

• Pull in new fallback icon from Adwaita
• Add new app icon and switch to rDNS icon name
• Avoid redundant calls to backdrop_changed_cb (Bug #16773)
• Move from exo-csource to xdt-csource (Bug #16717)
• Increase minimum desktop icon size to 16 (Bug #16667)
• Correct spelling of file system (Bug #16543)
• Increase desktop icon increments to 2 (Bug #16668)
• Unselect all items after single click activation
• Fix memory leak when reconnecting DP monitor (Bug #16314)
• Fix regression caused by (Bug #16342)
• Fix transparent background color (Bug #16380)
• Add Shift+Ctrl+N keybinding for Create Folder (Bug #15660)
• Ignore modifier key events in type-ahead find (Bug #11149)
• Added type-ahead find for Desktop icons (Bug #11149)
• Do not insert hyphens at intra-word line breaks (Bug #16339)
• Replace deprecated G_FILE_MONITOR_EVENT_MOVED (Bug #16342)
• Translation Updates: Albanian, Amharic, Arabic, Armenian (Armenia), Basque, Belarusian, Belarusian (Tarask), Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (China), Chinese (Hong Kong), Chinese (Taiwan), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English (Australia), English (Canada), English (United Kingdom), Estonian, Finnish, French, Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Interlingue, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Korean, Lithuanian, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Occitan (post 1500), Persian (Iran), Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil), Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Uighur, Ukrainian, Uzbek

This is a development release of Thunar aiming the upcoming release of Xfce 4.16.

As you may have noticed, Thunar's versioning scheme changed to follow the format adopted by other Xfce core components. We hope this doesn't cause any problem for packagers (since 4.15.0 > 1.8.15) and simplifies how to reason about compatibility between components.

This release includes all fixes and improvements present in Thunar 1.8.x plus the changes listed below. Before going into details, I would like to thank the usual hard work of translators and the many contributions from Theo, Reuben, Cyrille and Yousuf, thank you all, we really appreciate your efforts.

Oh, with regards stability, it's pretty good, I've been using git master for while now, but due big changes carried by Alexander (in preparation for gtk4 and making the code easier to maintain) expect a couple of rough edges. We hope to get feedback (and bug reports) from early adopters as soon as possible in order to fix all regressions in time for Xfce 4.16 ;)

• Fix unavailable rubber banding in detailed view (Issue #326)
• Context menu entries in Thunar flutter while downloading (Issue #276)
• Improve cusor handling after file deletion in thunar (Issue #69)
• Fix regression: Trying to open a .desktop file from the context menu leads to the execution of the file (Issue #325)
• Use numbering on label "open new window/tab" only for multiple windows/tabs (MR #15)
• Remove "Sort by" and "View as" from menu item labels (Issue #247)
• Add new app icon and switch to rDNS icon name (MR #11)
• Replace deprecated GtkActionEntry with XfceGtkActionEntry (Issue #293)
• Menus are now updated when selection changes not only when opened (Issue #293)
• Merge all file-context-menus into one (Issue #198)
• Ghost file ocasionally remains when dropping file into directory (Fixes #312)
• Use XfceFilenameInput to validate long filenames (Bug #13720)
• Support for variables like $HOME in address bar (Bug #12165)
• Fix eject button click detection when using RTL languages (Bug #11387)
• Remove upper case from group names in shortcuts view
• Option to rename a file when existing copy conflicts (Bug #16686)
• Remove suffix "- FileManager" from window title
• Move from exo-csource to xdt-csource (Bug #16717)
• Pause button on copy/move (Bug #16685)
• Allow drag-and-drop of multiple files in icon view (Bug #2487)
• Add keywords to .desktop files to thunar (Bug #16618)
• Reduce vertical space in Templates info popup
• Hide android phone from network group (Bug #11584)
• Reduce size of Templates info popup
• Do not add "cant-write" emblem to files in the Trash
• Hide Browse Network entry in shortcuts view if not supported
• Move 'network' to the bottom of tree view (Bug #16516)
• Add examples to "Select by Pattern" dialog (Bug #16587)
• Improve tooltips in shortcuts view (Bug #16566)
• Rename "Disconnect" context menu entry in side pane (Bug #16558)
• Make path entry matching case-insensitive (Bug #12747)
• Add new bookmarks to bottom of list in shortcuts view (Bug #16526)
• Move places above devices in shortcuts view (Bug #11586)
• Add desktop actions for home, computer and trash (Bug #16497)
• Option to use static icon instead of folder icon (Bug #16501)
• Remove top level desktop entry from tree view (Bug #16474)
• Easy access to computer:/// (Bug #16472)
• Use libxfce4ui close-multiple-tab dialog (Bug #16254)
• Replace deprecated G_FILE_MONITOR_EVENT_MOVED (Bug #16328)
• Use symbolic icon for eject (Bug #16281)
• Prevent ghost files after "move" on remote locations (Bug #15704)
• Add a confirmation dialog when closing a window with multiple open tabs.
• Improve explanation string for "invert selection" action (Bug #15625)
• Improve layout of Permissions tab (Bug #15557)
• Remove superfluous shell script "ThunarBulkRename" (Bug #15373)
• Make labels in permissions chooser wrap
• Add a small delay when dismissing notifications (Bug #14552)
• File / Folder size text in statusbar sometimes is ambiguous (Bug #14203)
• Add missing parameter to ThunarBrowserPokeDeviceFunc function
• Add property to enable/disable frames on thumbnails (Bug #14433)
• Improved spacing between widgets in Properties and Preferences dialogs
• Fixed numerous compiler warnings
• Fixed numerous warning and critical messages
• Translation Updates: Albanian, Amharic, Arabic, Armenian, Armenian (Armenia), Asturian, Basque, Belarusian, Bengali, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (China), Chinese (Hong Kong), Chinese (Taiwan), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Eastern Armenian, English (Australia), English (United Kingdom), Esperanto, Estonian, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Interlingue, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Occitan (post 1500), Panjabi (Punjabi), Persian (Iran), Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil), Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Uighur, Ukrainian, Urdu, Urdu (Pakistan), Vietnamese

[Please note that this is a development release.]

• Update bug URLs to point to gitlab.xfce
• xfce-about: Hide empty email address tags (Fixes #12)
• Remove translator email address as per request (Fixes #11)
• Add missing translator "Hugo Carvalho" to xfce4-about (issue #18)
• Replace deprecated 'gdk_keyboard_ungrab' function (Fixes #15)
• shortcuts-grabber: Correctly ungrab keys on updating shortcuts (Fixes #16)
• Add basic GitLab pipeline
• Allow more granular control over menu item accelerators.
  • No automatic accelerator activation formenu items
  • Added 'gtk_menu_item_set_accel_label'
  • Added 'xfce_gtk_accel_group_connect_action_entries'
• renamed 'xfce_gtk_accel_group_append' to 'xfce_gtk_accel_map_add_entries' and modified internals accordingly. No automatic add to an accel_group any more, since this may lead to double-activation in some cases.
• Add "xfce_gtk_accel_group_disconnect_action_entries" to be able to revert "xfce_gtk_accel_group_connect_action_entries"
• Add title to xfce_dialog_confirm_close_tabs
• Add new methods to libxfce4ui.symbols. Followup of 231e57daccb5946379f413ed440629c32025f6f3
• Translation Updates: Albanian, Amharic, Arabic, Armenian, Armenian (Armenia), Basque, Belarusian, Bengali, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (China), Chinese (Hong Kong), Chinese (Taiwan), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Eastern Armenian, English (Australia), English (United Kingdom), Estonian, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Interlingue, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Occitan (post 1500), Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil), Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Uighur, Ukrainian, Welsh

Oh boy, 3 years without any blogposts ! So much things happened in Xfce world!

Actually I just want to test if stuff works at all .. seems to be fine :)

Many thanks to AndreLDM for poitning me to the sources of his blog and settings things up!

• Rewrite in C
• Fix horizontal mode
• Improve user interface by use a start/stop button rather than reset
• Reset via menu entry
• Save/load running state so timer continues after panel reload

• Fix systemd unit dir (Closes: #961215)
• Use cython3 (Closes: #942916)
• Use libayatanaappindicator (Closes: #895037)

[Please note that this is a development release.]

This release transitions several exo components to xfce-settings. Please use with exo 4.15.1 or later for best results.

• exo-compose-email -> xfce4-compose-email
• exo-helper -> xfce4-mime-helper
• mime-settings now includes preferred applications

Other Updates:

• Switch to new app icons and rDNS icon names
• Increase mouse cursor upper bound for HiDPI (Bug #16042)
• Fix a memory leak
• Fix typo
• Add basic GitLab pipeline
• Make "Profiles matching" sentence translatable (Bug #16679)
• settings-manager: Use symbolic find/clear icons
• Move from exo-csource to xdt-csource (Bug #16717)
• Handle failure to get Xkl engine for display (Bug #16017)
• settings-manager: Make sure content determines size
• Fix cast warnings
• Fix GTimeVal deprecation (Bug #16645)
• Fix keywords and mark them as translateable
• Use proper fallback configuration on "apply" and "toggle off" (Bug #16476)
• keyboard-settings: Fix log flood (Bug #16521)
• keyboard: Fix crash when editing shortcut (Bug #15958)
• Add keywords to .desktop files (Bug #10694)
• settings-manager: Improve search by including keywords (Bug #10694)
• xfsettingsd: Add –disable-wm-check flag (Bug #16128)
• Fix typecasting
• Set "gtk-titlebar-middle-click" to "lower" by default
• display: Allow resizing of minimal dialog (Bug #15450)
• settings-manager: Show min and max buttons
• dialogs: Ensure dialogs have min and max buttons
• Translation Updates: Albanian, Arabic, Armenian (Armenia), Basque, Belarusian, Belarusian (Tarask), Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (China), Chinese (Hong Kong), Chinese (Taiwan), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English (Australia), English (Canada), English (United Kingdom), Estonian, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Interlingue, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Korean, Lithuanian, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Occitan (post 1500), Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil), Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Uighur, Ukrainian