A new E17 Snapshot has been released days before the LinuxCon EU 2012. It has been a while since the last release. There are a number of features , improvements and other changes which can be seen on the list below.
- Lots of translation updates
- Support for XCURSOR_PATH
- Speedups to application menu generation
- DND now works properly with ibar
- Desklock background now updates properly when set to use “current wallpaper”
- Shelf autohide fixes
- Startup time improvements when using multiple shelves
- iBox has a new mode for desktop use which allows it to resize based on content size
- Shelf menus now have more items
- Clock gadgets should now update immediately following any timezone change
- Various comp module improvements
- Video previews in filemanager
- Filemanager now has a secure delete option
- Shiny new RandR dialog (not yet complete, be warned!)
- “Slide pointer to newly-focused window” option now also slides pointer when closing a window changes focus
- Fullscreen windows now set and unset focus properly
- Lots of desktop gadget DND improvements to not crashing
- Keyboard layout switching should be more reliable now
- Desklock now supports having its own language and keyboard layout
- Improvements to filemanager basic move/copy support for some corner cases
- Windows will now properly update their iconified status at all times
- Text file previews in filemanager
- Desktop editor no longer opens with a blank desktop if left open when restarting E
- File previews now work better with .desktop files
- Clock popup is now smarter about hiding
- Connman gadget improvements
- Pulseaudio mixer code will no longer sometimes intercept gstreamer function calls
- Moving a gadget from one site to another no longer causes the gadget’s config to be lost
- Config option to disable module delays, usually improves startup times
- Module settings dialog is now remembered across restarts
- LD_LIBRARY_PATH is no longer set by E17
- Changing shelf autohide on a vertical shelf no longer causes scrollbars to appear on desktop
- Filemanager now supports DND into pathbar buttons
- E17 77927 – [GZ] [BZ2]
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