As scheduled we have just released Xfce 4.16pre1 on August 27th (sorry for the long time to write a post about it) – the first development release leading up to Xfce 4.16. And it comes with a boatload of new features and improvements, so prepare yourselves.
Adding new icons to all core components to extend Xfce’s visual identity (also: follow freedesktop.org rDNS icon naming standard)
A revamped and improved “About Xfce” dialog that also holds general system details
Switch to client-side decorations for settings dialogs
New “Default Applications” dialog: merge between “Mime Settings” and “Preferred Applications”
Display: Support for fractional scaling (with XRandR), better fallback in case of mis-configuration
Settings Manager: Improved search/filter
New Plugin: “Status Tray” – a merger between the systray and the statusnotifier plugin, will make life for users much easier and less confusing, now supports the panel’s global “icon size” setting
Autohide animation: Makes “autohide” more easily understandable (in the sense of: where did my panel just go?)
The Window list now supports “launching a new instance” of an application in the right-click menu
Copying and moving can be paused
Besides manually compiling tarballs, it’s also possible to use xfce-test (ubuntu_20.04-xfce-4.16pre1
tag) to easily preview Xfce 4.16 without the risk of breaking your system.
Please go ahead try this release if possible, we would be more happy to hear your impressions as well as get bug reports before the final release.
We’re expecting to release Xfce 4.16pre2 at the end of this month and if necessary pre3 will be released in October. If everything goes as planned Xfce 4.16 should be released by November!
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