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Revision as of 13:38, 4 March 2015
Xfce412
Summary
Update Xfce to the new 4.12 release with a number of bugfixes and improvements.
Owner
- Name: Kevin Fenzi, Mukundan Ragavan, Christoph Wickert
- Email: kevin@scrye.com, nonamedotc@fedoraproject.org, cwickert@fedoraproject.org
- Release notes owner:
Current status
- Targeted release: Fedora 22
- Last updated: 2015-03-01
- Tracker bug: <will be assigned by the Wrangler>
Detailed Description
Upstream Release Date: 2015-02-28
This release will have a number of bugfixes and improvements, but no radical changes.
Benefit to Fedora
Xfce users will have the latest version, complete with bug fixes and enhancements.
Scope
- Proposal owners: Update Xfce packages. Update Xfce spin with any needed adjustments.
- Other developers: N/A (not a System Wide Change)
- Release engineering: N/A (not a System Wide Change)
- Policies and guidelines: N/A (not a System Wide Change)
Upgrade/compatibility impact
Existing Xfce users should be able to upgrade from 4.10 to 4.12.
N/A (not a System Wide Change)
How To Test
Xfce desktop tests should be run. Livecd tests should be run on the Live media.
N/A (not a System Wide Change)
User Experience
N/A (not a System Wide Change)
Dependencies
N/A (not a System Wide Change)
Contingency Plan
- Contingency mechanism: (What to do? Who will do it?) N/A (not a System Wide Change)
- Contingency deadline: N/A (not a System Wide Change)
- Blocks release? N/A (not a System Wide Change), Yes/No
- Blocks product? product
Documentation
Xfce 4.12 release announcement: https://mail.xfce.org/pipermail/xfce/2015-February/034220.html
Detailed changelogs for each component: http://xfce.org/download/changelogs
Tour of new changes: http://xfce.org/about/tour
Release Notes
Fedora 22 includes the latest version of the Xfce desktop with lots of bugfixes and improvements, including:
- The alt tab window switcher now can show previews of all windows as you select which to switch to.
- A Hidpi theme has been added for laptops with hidpi screens.
- The panel can now intelligently hide itself and supports Gtk3 plugins.
- The desktop has a new wallpaper settings dialog, per workspace wallpaper support, and better multi-monitor handling.
- Support has been added for the new libinput input library.
- Many improvements in the Thunar file manager, including tabs, bugfixes and speedups.
- The simple mousepad editor has been rewritten for speed and simplicity
- The parole media player has been ported to gtk3 and has new and reworked interface.
- The clipboard manager now supports showing QR codes for items in the clipboard.