As already was announced, the time to release next LXPanel has came. The
release goals for 0.8 were:
- complete multi-monitor support
- improve and further simplify plugins API
It also happen to have better performance than before, that was a side
effect of optimizations. The release 0.8.0 comes fully translated to 17
languages: Chinese (China), Dutch, Finnish, French, Galician, Ganda,
German, Greek, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Portuguese, Russian,
Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian. Work on LXPanel features will be
continued shortly, it will become yet more convenient later. :)
Changes since previous release 0.7.2:
* Added workaround for crash in gtk-run with old libmenu-cache.
* Core functions are separated into a private library to allow reliable
linking of modules using -Wl,-z,defs.
* Added macro LXPANEL_CHECK_VERSION() for third party pluguns API check.
* Added CONF_TYPE_EXTERNAL support for lxpanel_generic_config_dlg().
* Implemented property "aspect-width" for PanelIconGrid to allow using
non-square tray sockets.
* Added support for monitors "All" to span panel over all monitors (i.e.
to allow pre-0.6.0 behavior).
* Implemented monitors hotplug support.
* Fixed popups positioning in multi-monitor environment.
* Fixed updating panel size if appropriate monitor changed its size or
position.
* Implemented disabling for "Reserve space" button if another monitor
lies beyond the edge so reservation will cover it. Also reservation
will not be applied in such cases even if set in config manually.
* Some edge and monitors selections in panel configuration dialog may be
insensitive now if appropriate edge and monitor combination is not
available, to avoid panels stacking one over another.
* Fixed bug with hidden panel disappearing after resolution change.
* Add lxpanel_image_new_for_icon() API to replace another (obsolete) API
_gtk_image_new_from_file_scaled().
* Added API panel_config_hotkey_button_new() to use as CONF_TYPE_EXTERNAL
widget to allow configure global hotkeys for plugins functions.
* Added API lxpanel_apply_hotkey() as a convenient libkeybinder interface
to use in modules that also use panel_config_hotkey_button_new(). Now
LXPanel requires libkeybinder too.
* Added API panel_config_click_button_new() to configure mouse gestures
and panel_config_click_parse() to parse its output.
* Added "icon-size-changed" signal to LXPanel which is emitted when icons
size in configuration dialog was changed.
* Improved lxpanel_image_new_for_icon() API to follow panel icons size
changes, not only theme changes. This way calls on lxpanel_image_*
APIs on theme or panel changes may be eliminated, i.e. code becomes
simpler.
* Added new lxpanel_image_change_icon() API for simplification reasons so
other lxpanel_image_* APIs can be replaced completely.
* APIs lxpanel_button_set_icon() lxpanel_button_update_icon() now don't
require setting icon size since created button already follows size
from panel settings. Also it doesn't require refresh after the panel
configuration change.
* Disabled scaling up small icons in the taskbar: scaled up icons look
bad due to pixelization (patch from Anton Lobashev).
* When adding new panel, now correctly edges of monitor where popup was
are tried before any other monitors.
* Correctly open 'netstat' plugin own menu on leftclick since rightclick
should open panel context menu instead.
* System critical temperature level in 'thermal' plugin now is properly
ignored if manual levels are active.
* Fixed click on 'menu' plugin, only image was clickable, not whole area.
* Added API panel_config_int_button_new() for generic plugin config spin
button with custom range, not just generic 0...1000.
* Fixed wrong behavior with PanelIconGrid constrained width after child
was removed: size wasn't always renegotiated correctly.
* Fixed range of space reservation in multi-monitor setup (reservation
might cover another monitor).
* Numeric-only string will be saved now double-quoted to distinguish it
from number in config.
* Implemented flashing on task with urgency in grouped task list menu.
* Disabled flashing on urgency hint if window has focus, most of window
managers do the same on window decorations.
* Fixed border of 'batt' plugin, it should correctly use panel settings.
Also 'Size' setting of it doesn't include border width.
* Allowed default alarmCommand on 'batt' plugin be translated.
* Implemented sorting plugins in Add plugin window in alphabetic order.
* Fixed font in the weather plugin to use panel settings.
* Added new API lxpanel_button_compose() for future usage by plugins.
* Added optional volumealsa plugin volume mapping from alsamixer (patch
from Peter).
* Added new API lxpanel_button_set_label() to change label of button that
was created using some lxpanel_button_*() API.
* Added "panel-font-changed" signal to LXPanel to be able follow settings
change in font configuration of panel using lxpanel_button_*() API.
* Fixed nasty bug with autohidden panel after unhide appeared for short
time somewhere at the screen.
* Fixed calendar and configuration windows blinking on their appearance.
* Fixed panel update when background image changed in configuration.
* Changed to use persistent background image for panel and Cairo. This
way updating background should be faster, and also fixed background
of plugins when image is used, both placement and alpha color.
* Urgent window is now always visible on the taskbar irrelevant of the
desktop number on which it appears, because urgent window requires
user attention (patch from Andy Balaam).
* Moved bit of code that is used out from src/bg.c and discarded src/bg.c
from code used.
* Dropped setting members of Panel structure: workarea, wa_len, bg.
* Replaced GtkComboBoxEntry in netstatus plugin window with GtkComboBox.
* Simplified plugins background setting - they should never use any own
background but either use one from panel or from theme (depending on
panel configuration). This should improve performance.
* Don't update a whole panel background anymore after some plugin was
resized, only update the plugin itself to improve performance.
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