[ Debian Janitor ]

• Bump debhelper from old 11 to 12.
• Set upstream metadata fields: Repository.
• Fix day-of-week for changelog entry 4.0.0.final-1.
• Update standards version to 4.4.1, no changes needed.

[ Yves-Alexis Perez ]

• d/watch: use uscan special strings where possible
• New upstream version 4.14.2

[ Sean Davis ]

• d/patches/0001-Use-Adwaita-icons-and-cursors.patch:
  • Refreshed for the dark and light themes

[ Unit 193 ]

• New upstream release
• d/control, d/rules: Use the meson buildsystem.
• d/control: Set R³ to no.
• Update Standards-Version to 4.4.1.

Xfce 4.14 Maintenance

As promised we’re trying to be much better at doing maintenance releases for Xfce 4.14. In part, we had a hard time doing maintenance for Xfce 4.12 because with all the porting work it was hard to focus on fixing Gtk+2 bugs and many bugreports/fixes didn’t apply to both 4.12 and 4.14.
This has now changed and as many bugs apply to both Xfce 4.14 and the current 4.15 development versions we can much more easily backport fixes. Consequently we have already done quite a few maintenance releases so far and this week a few more followed, fixing bugs and featuring improved translations:

• xfce4-panel 4.14.3 (4.14.2 had a bad release build)
• xfce4-session 4.14.1
• xfce4-settings 4.14.2
• xfdesktop 4.14.2

Xfce 4.15 Updates

One of the major UI changes that we announced for the 4.16 cycle was the switch to GtkHeaderBars or so-called Client-side decorations (CSD). The first big step in this direction has now happened in libxfce4ui, our main user interface library. With the change, almost all dialogs will be converted to using CSD by default without any code changes in existing projects.

There are quite a few advantages we’re looking forward to (improved resize areas, consistent theming etc) by making use of this core Gtk feature.

A few more features that got released (in the xfce4-panel 4.15.1, libxfce4ui 4.15.1, libxfce4util 4.15.0 and xfce4-settings 4.15.0):

• an improved “About Xfce” dialog that features basics of the system properties
• improvements to the “Display” dialog (show Aspect Ratio, show Preferred Mode)
• only show Gtk themes that support Gtk3 in the “Appearance” dialog
• function for improved application icon lookup (used in Xfce Session’s settings dialog and in the Xfce Panel’s systray settings for now)
• the panel’ dark mode got enabled by default (which means it will look nicer with Adwaita e.g. on Fedora by default)
• the Directory Menu plugin now allows you to directly create Folders and Files
• we also bumped the overall Xfce version to 4.15 so people testing 4.15 packages should see the right version in e.g. the “About Xfce” dialog.

Enjoy!

(and don’t forget to write bug reports )

Some Screenshots

Technical background: XfceTitledDialog with CSD

(This subsection is targeted at developers.)

Some components (namely Thunar, Thunar volman, xfce4-panel, xfce4-settings, xfburn and xfce4-mixer) inherit the XfceTitledDialogClass explicitly when creating their dialog object have to be fixed by using the new API introduced in the upcoming release libxfce4ui-4.15.1.
All other dialogs should work out of the box and not require any additional meddling.

• xfce_titled_dialog_create_action_area (to initialize the custom action area)
• xfce_titled_dialog_add_button (as an equivalent to gtk_dialog_add_button)
• xfce_titled_dialog_add_action_widget (as an equivalent to gtk_dialog_add_action_widget)
• xfce_titled_dialog_set_default_response (as an equivalent to gtk_dialog_set_default_response)

The point of the new API is packing the dialog’s action buttons in the action area at the bottom of the dialog (vs. the standard GtkDialog behavior of packing them in the GtkHeaderBar as part of the window decorations). This means that dialogs remain in their previous/traditional layout with minimal effort on the developer’s/maintainer’s side, in part because the parameters were kept the same as in their upstream GtkDialog counterparts.

Here is a (very simple) example commit of how to port existing dialogs that use XfceTitledDialogClass:
https://git.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-panel/commit/?id=35440ee2d9540a3c1afdcbff5f50dc0ee2f83d9b

[ Ondřej Nový ]

• Bump Standards-Version to 4.4.1.

[ Debian Janitor ]

• Set upstream metadata fields: Repository.

[ Sean Davis ]

• New upstream release.
• d/control:
  • Remove Jackson from Uploaders. Thanks!
• d/upstream/metadata: Set correct repository

This is a feature release.

Features

• Buildsystem ported to meson
• Add dark version of the theme
• Add xfwm4 Greybird-accessibility-dark

Bugfixes

• Also set backdrop color for print dialog (Fixes #243)
• Make error and warning entry text more readable
• Improve button sizing
• Add minimal size to header bar button's label
• xfce4-panel: Add drop-target style
• xfdesktop: Highlight selected icons
• Hide i/o on GtkSwitches
• Update installation instructions for meson

Welcome to 2020! Let's ring in the new year with a brand new Catfish release.

What's New

Wayland Support

Catfish 1.4.12 adds support for running on Wayland. Before now, there were some X-specific dependencies related to handling display sizes. These have now been resolved, and Catfish should run smoothly and consistently everywhere.

Dialog Improvements

All dialogs now utilize client-side decorations (CSD) and are modal. The main window will continue to respect the window layout setting introduced in the 1.4.10 release.

I also applied a number of fixes to the new Preferences and Search Index dialogs, so they should behave more consistently and work well with keyboard navigation.

Release Process Updates

I've improved the release process to make it easier for maintainers and to ensure builds are free of temporary files. This helps ensure a faster delivery to package maintainers, and therefore to distributions.

Translation Updates

Albanian, Catalan, Chinese (China), Chinese (Taiwan), Czech, Danish, Dutch, French, Galician, German, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian Bokmål, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, Turkish

Downloads

Source tarball

$ md5sum catfish-1.4.12.tar.bz2 
9aad6a0bc695ec8793d4294880974cb2

$ sha1sum catfish-1.4.12.tar.bz2 
4e78e291a2f17c85122a85049bdc837b49afdd66

$ sha256sum catfish-1.4.12.tar.bz2 
c3fb30e02b217752aa493b49769be1a5fc2adde70b22aef381e6c67d5227134a

Catfish 1.4.12 will be included in Xubuntu 20.04 "Focal Fossa", available in April.

• d/watch: update to use uscan special strings
• New upstream version 1.0.5
• d/control: update dh compat level to 12
• d/control: update standards version to 4.4.1

• Team upload.
• d/watch: Update for upstream’s move to mirrorbit.
• New upstream version 1.9.7
• d/control:
  • Set R³ to no.
  • Update dh compat to 12.
• Update Standards-Version to 4.4.1.

• d/control:
  • Remove outdated X-Python3-Version field (lintian tag ancient-python-version-field)
  • Bump to Standards-Version 4.4.1 and debhelper 12; no changes needed.
  • Fix insecure-copyright-format-uri Lintian warning
  • Set Rules-Requires-Root: no
• d/copyright: update copyright authors and years
• Add patch 0001-Refresh-translations.patch backported from upstream commit https://git.launchpad.net/lightdm-gtk-greeter-settings/commit/?id=69e614899be17816d1cc8ce658d95d6731b83bd7 Thanks to Roxfr for suggesting translation updates.

What's New?

General

• Radio indicators are now displayed on the layout options, making your selection clearer on all themes

Bug Fixes

• Startup crash when GdkDisplay or GdkScreen calls return None (LP #1822914)
• Configuration of preferred window layout (Xfce #16085)
• Finding files in the target directory (Xfce #15985, #16233)
• Symbolic links looping, causing search to go on forever (Xfce #16272)
• Home (~) expansion for the start path, simplifying commandline usage:

catfish --path=~/Desktop

• Fix asv-summary-has-dot-suffix (Debian Appstream)

Translation Updates

Albanian, Belarusian, Catalan, Chinese (China), Chinese (Taiwan), Croatian, Czech, Dutch, French, German, Interlingue, Italian, Korean, Lithuanian, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Spanish, Thai, Turkish

Downloads

Source tarball

$ md5sum catfish-1.4.11.tar.bz2 
67e23d45fded026ef3445bc7fe1d1653

$ sha1sum catfish-1.4.11.tar.bz2 
e7617948d59c69faa3f2569981b7371126d00737

$ sha256sum catfish-1.4.11.tar.bz2 
617baf9309e3cdfb20c8357ac786eb26f30e6fd4280d4534d3cdd742c7ffcd85

Catfish 1.4.11 will be included in Xubuntu 20.04 "Focal Fossa", available in April.