Yesterday XFCE desktop developers unveiled through an announcement the completion of the planning phases and the dependencies freeze and the transfer of the project to the development stage of what will be the new version of XFCE 4.16.
Development is planned to be completed by the middle of next year, after which it will remain to form three preliminary releases before the final release. Of the next changes, it is marked the end of optional support for GTK2 and the modernization of the user interface.
As During the development process of version 4.14, the developers tried to port the GTK2 environment to GTK3 without changing the interfaceWhile for XFCE 4.16 they comment that plan to end GTK2 support and make full use of GTK3, in addition to that the work will begin to optimize the appearance of the panels.
As promised, this time around we will try to keep to a tighter schedule, so without further ado: the development phase towards Xfce 4.16 has officially started!
During the work of this job, there will be support for decorating windows on the client side (CSD,) in which the window title and frame are not drawn by the window manager, but by the application itself. It is planned to use CSD to implement a multifunctional header and hidden frames in dialog boxes related to changing settings.
Some title bar icons, how to close the window, will be replaced by symbolic options that seem more correct when choosing a dark theme. Support for displaying the "Desktop Actions" section will be added to the plugin's context menu with implementations of shortcuts to launch applications, allowing to launch application-specific drivers, such as opening an additional Firefox window.
We'll also play around with client-side decorations where we think it makes sense (for example, replacing the so-called XfceTitledDialog, which is used for all configuration dialogs with a version of HeaderBar).
The libgtop library will be added to the number of dependencies, which will be used to display information about the system in the "About" dialog.
Drastic changes are not expected for Thunar file manager in the interface, but many small improvements are planned to simplify working with files. The new version of Thunar you should have a fresh take on the plugin API, allowing you to add new actions and store directory view settings. For example, it will be possible to save the sort mode settings in relation to individual directories.
It is also planned to add to the configurator the ability to expand the mirror output information to multiple monitors, whose resolution is different.
To control color reproduction, planning to prepare your own background process to interact with colord, without having to run xiccd. In the power management manager, night backlight mode is expected to appear as a timed function applied as a screen filter to reduce the strain on the eyes.
Also on the other hand, the developers have planned for XFCE 4.16 to add some panel plugin improvements of which the ad highlights the adding dark modeas well as including a battery histogram in the configuration dialog to view battery depletion and the implementation of a visual interface to track battery discharge.
As mentioned earlier, this cycle is intended to be lighter to allow us to "stick to plan" and get a version for our user base earlier than the previous two versions.
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