After 15 months a new stable release of Xfce Terminal is out full of improvements for everybody to enjoy!
From 2016 until 2020, Terminal was in the capable hands of Igor Zakharov. It became unmaintained for a few months in 2021 until I took up its development in September.
This is Terminal’s first stable release with me as its maintainer, and I hope you will find it worthy of the quality standards set by my predecessors
After asking around the Xfce community about Terminal’s versioning scheme and looking into its history, I decided to adopt Thunar’s old versioning. That means that the next cycle of development
releases will be 1.1.x, and the next major stable release will be 1.2.0. That will continue until we reach 2.0.0 or some major change happens (for example, porting to GTK 4).
For anyone who hasn’t kept up with Terminal’s development here are the major improvements:
For a more extensive look into all the new features you can read my previous blogs
(0.9.0,
0.9.1,
0.9.2) or the NEWS file in the code repository.
As far as under the hood improvements go, I spent most of my time rewriting the code that handles the accelerators and the creation of various menus. This removed most of the deprecated code in Xfce Terminal
and fixed various small issues or inconsistencies that existed in the old code while also reducing the size of the codebase. At first, this transition introduced a bunch of regressions but thanks to testers in the community it looks like any shortcuts or UI issues
created by it have been fixed. A nice bonus of this transition is being able to customize the goto-tab accelerators.
I did also spent some time fixing build warnings and removing code for ancient versions of VTE. All in all, I believe that the codebase is in a better place than it was one year ago and this will enable
me to make 1.2.0 an even bigger release.
The future of Xfce Terminal is bright. Some of my goals for 1.2.0 are:
Before I start working on all that, I will take care of any regressions that get reported in this release (there has already been one).
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