4.10.0
======
- Use the correct default value for the 'show thumbnails' checkbox
- Remove deprecated glib/gio functions (Bug #8710)
- Translation updates: Catalan (Valencian), Czech, Danish, German,
  English (United Kingdom), Spanish (Castilian), Basque, Finnish,
  French, Galician, Croatian, Hungarian, Japanese, Kazakh, Korean,
  Lithuanian, Dutch (Flemish), Norwegian Nynorsk, Portuguese, Romanian,
  Russian, Slovak, Ukrainian, Chinese (China), Chinese (Taiwan).


4.9.3
=====
- Fix dependency versions.
- Hide unneeded message on startup.
- Apply single click option on startup (bug #8615).
- Disable the resize grip from the root window (bug #8636).
- Add new background and remove old ones.
- Check for sed with a macro (bug #8687).
- Make string translatable (bug #8655).
- Fix a mnemonic conflict (bug #8654).
- Simplefy the menu reloading.
- Translation updates: Amharic, Arabic, Asturian, Azerbaijani,
  Belarusian, Bulgarian, Bengali, Bengali (India), Catalan (Valencian),
  Czech, Danish, German, Dzongkha, Greek, English (United Kingdom),
  Esperanto, Spanish (Castilian), Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish,
  French, Galician, Gujarati, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian,
  Armenian, Indonesian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh,
  Korean, Lithuanian, Latvian, Macedonian, Marathi, Malay, Norwegian
  Bokmal, Dutch (Flemish), Norwegian Nynorsk, Panjabi (Punjabi),
  Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazilian), Romanian, Russian,
  Sinhala, Slovak, Albanian, Swedish, Tamil, Telugu, Turkish, Uyghur,
  Ukrainian, Urdu, Urdu (Pakistan), Vietnamese, Chinese (China),
  Chinese (Taiwan).


4.9.2
=====
- Fix menu without desktop icons.
- Enable pseudo-transparent backgrounds again.
- Translation updates: Catalan (Valencian), Danish.


4.9.1
=====
- Prevent multiple instances of xfdesktop from running (bug #8488).
- Change xfdesktop's menu icon to "applications-other" (bug #8500).
- Keep the image width to something sensible for xfdesktop-settings
  (bug #7086).
- Use the preferred file manager when opening folders (bug #6537).
- Translation updates: Czech, German, Spanish (Castilian), Basque,
  Indonesian, Italian, Kazakh, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Slovak,
  Turkish, Ukrainian, Chinese (Taiwan).


4.9.0
=====
- Drop AC_PROG_LIBTOOL for LT_PREREQ and LT_INIT.
- Remove docs and link to wiki.
- Thumbnail desktop icon previews using tumblerd.
- Added a check for GDK_GRAB_INVALID_TIME in
  xfdesktop_popup_grab_available to mitigate slow menu popups on
  a right mouse click (bug #7172).
- Add the code required to perform a paste on the on the desktop
  (bug #3804).
- Display correct trash icon on menu & desktop.
- Fix for shift + drag selections/
- Icon positions are saved/restored per resolution.
- Backdrop image cycling on a timer.
- Modified xfdesktop_icon_view_drag_drop to allow all
  selected files to drag and drop (bug #5025).
- Fix for moving files instead of copy when src isn't writable.
- Fix typos in the README file.
- Unmounted volumes are semi-transparent.
- Stretch background across all monitors setting (bug #5690).
- Arrange icons on the desktop menu item (bug #2833).
- Single click option to open items on desktop (bug #1797).
- Require libexo & update min requirements in readme.
- Comments in .desktop files are displayed in the tooltip (bug #8509).


4.8.3
=====
- Fix moving files to the desktop via shift & drag (bug #7629).
  Reported and fixed by Patrick Melo.
- Translation updates: Korean, Malay, Russian, Spanish (Castilian),
  Slovak, Telugu, German, Dutch (Flemish), Basque,
  Portuguese (Brazilian).


4.8.2
=====
- Fix a crash on focus in when items are selected (bug #7313).
  Reported and fixed by Ambroz Bizjak.
- Retrieve the translated desktop file name.
- Fix potential crash in xfdesktop-settings (bug #7301).
- Fix creation of empty file from template menu (bug #7230).
- Stop altering the root window pixmap to avoid X crash (bug #7442).
- Translation updates: Ukrainian, Turkish, Lithuanian, Swedish,
  Danish, Chinese, Romanian, Kazakh.


4.8.1
=====
- Use Name field as display name of desktop files (bug #6896).
- Support absolute icon paths in desktop files (bug #7160).
  Patch by xaizek@gmail.com.
- Scroll to the selected background in the settings (bug #7087).
- Handle volume changes in a timeout (bug #7025).
- Implement monitoring for special file icons (bug #6986).
- Implement open and empty actions for the trash.
- Fix crash when cancelling a file download (bug #6876).
- Properly invalidate tooltips on file changes.
- Make sure the background is reloaded on compositing changes.
- Translation updates: Catalan (Valencian), English (United Kingdom),
  Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian,
  Japanese, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Swedish.


4.8.0
=====
- Optipng the backgrops.
- Drop the flower background.
- Translation updates: Arabic, Croatian, French, Greek, Polish,
  Portuguese, Romanian.


4.7.5
=====
- Work around Gtk 2.16 function (bug #6883).
- Translation updates: sk, ru, cs, en_GB, lt, sv, nb, ar, pt).


4.7.4
=====
- Add checks for an API change in libnotify 0.7.0 (bug #6915).
- Avoid GTK+ 2.18 and GIO 2.20 function calls (or at least guard them
  so that xfdesktop still builds with older versions).
- Let garcon choose the default applications menu file using
  XDG_MENU_PREFIX. Drop the UserMenu kiosk option as the panel
  sort of allows to bypass it anyway.


4.7.3
=====
- Fix a crash caused by accessing the wrong variable when adding
  items to the right-click menu.
- Select the correct icon style in the desktop settings on first
  start (bug #6798).
- Depend on libwnck >= 2.22 so we no longer have to implement hacks
  for the two different "active-workspace-changed" signal variants
  in libwnck (bug #6638).
- Add menu item monitoring.
- Fix critical when session manager is not running (bug #6822).
- Remove checks for older GLib/GTK+ versions that are no longer needed.
- Allow workspace names that start with a number (bug #6318).
- Delay notification initialization until we show one.
- Set the correct session priority.
- Do not call gtk_widget_show() on menus (bug #6198).
- Translation updates: gl, ca, de, it, kk, fi, sk, pt, uk, el,
  zh_TW, da, id, eu, hu, lt.


4.7.2
=====
- Properly hide mounts that cannot be mounted by the user.
- Make xfdesktop settings dialog translatable (bug #6771).
- Translation updates: Finnish, Galician.


4.7.1
=====
- Port xfdesktop to GIO and drop the dependency on thunar-vfs. This
  is a major change which makes heavy use of new D-Bus methods
  introduced in Thunar 1.1.3.
- Port xfdesktop to thunarx-2.
- Translation updates: Portuguese, Basque, Italian, Danish, Kazakh,
  Galician, Catalan (Valencian), Spanish (Castilian), Swedish,
  Finnish, Greek, Japanese, Ukrainian, Russian, Chinese (Taiwan),
  German, Uyghur.


4.7.0
=====
- Depend on exo-1 (0.5).
- Drop dependency on libxfcegui4 and use libxfce4ui.
- Remove the menu panel plugin, this is now included in the panel.
- Remove various .desktop files for the menu, those are now
  included in the packages they belong to (exo, utils and session).
- Remove the .directory files, those are now shipped with Garcon.
- Drop the libxfce4menu dependency and use Garcon.
- Build documentation during make dist.
- Allow DnD to image list in settings dialog (bug 4337).
- Refactor drawing routines in XfdesktopIconView to remove most
  flicker and most if not all repaint glitches.
- Use cairo to draw the rounded text label background instead of
  the hacky PNG composition method.
- Make the text label corner roundness configurable via a gtkrc
  style property.
- Call to org.xfce.FileManager.DisplayFileProperties() for the
  full-featured file properties dialog before falling back to our
  own (bug 5622).
- Translation updates: ca, kk, pt, it, da, zh_TW, de, he, id, hr,
  fr, ru, si.


4.6.2
=====
- Build fixes for GIT.
- Rebuild doc directory.
- Add libexo to CFLAGS and LIBS for panel plugin.
- Fix detection of rename/delete ability.
- Fix compilation when libexo isn't present.
- Update icon text labels when system font size changes (bug #2862).
- Set mnemonic widget properly for icon type/size labels (bug #5555).
- Always show 'Eject' in volume context menus, regardless of whether
  or not it's mounted (bug #5343).
- Never show 'Unmount' in volume context menus.
- Use GtkBindingSet for keyboard handling on desktop.
- Only register menu with panel if popup succeeded (bug #5792).
- Fix inability to delete broken symlinks on the desktop (bug 5387).
- Don't misuse the g_return_(val_)?if_fail() macros as much (bug #5791).
- Translation updates (el, es, gl, it, pl, pt, ru, tr, ro, lv, ca,
  ur, ur_PK, hu, ast, da, sk, nn, nl, si, am, kk, ja, ug, fr).


4.6.1
=====
- Fix desktop menu failing to load on FreeBSD (bug 3370).
- Ensure root window properties get deleted when xfdesktop
  quits (bug 5154).
- Reload the backdrop and icon view when 'xfdesktop ==reload'
  is run (bug 5156).
- Make default button in 'delete multiple' dialog consistent with
  default in 'delete single' dialog (bug 5140).
- Reload the desktop when the first image is added to an image
  list (bug 5001).
- Auto-select new images as they are added to the settings dialog's
  image list (bug 5014).


4.6.0
=====
- Fix menu plugin crash when selecting custom menu file (bug 4879).
- Only regen the monitor on changes to files we care about (bug 4979).


4.5.99.1
========
- Remove the menu editor (which was just a stub anyway).


Xfce 4.5.93
===========
- Avoid an infinite loop if all files in a backdrop list are invalid.


4.5.92
======
- Display 'Audio' and 'Video' categories in the multimedia submenu.
- Fix multiple image selection in settings dialog file chooser (bug 4522).
- Always use the XfceMenuElement interface for reading the display names
  of menu items and menus. This ensures that items appear sorted in
  alphabetic order.


4.5.91
======
- Bring back the "show icons in menu" preferences for the desktop
  menu and window list menu.
- Add support for XDG user dirs for the Desktop and Templates
  directories.  Patch from Andrea Santilli <yawara@quipo.it> (bug 4365).
- Fix xfdesktop/xfce menu crashing when installing new applications that
  install .desktop files and icons (bug 3615).
- Fix occasional "double menu" after menu/icon files change on disk
  (bug 4342).
- Implement "rubber banding" for the desktop icon view (bug 3245).
- Honor the Hidden=, OnlyShowIn=, and NeverShowIn= keys in .desktop
  files in the desktop folder (bug 4022).
- Fix window menu popping up even after last window icon was
  de-selected when using minimized app icons.
- Display 'Eject' in the context menu for removable drives that
  support eject, not just optical discs (bug 3738).
- Fix memory leak (not freeing result of gtk_container_get_children()
  in the desktop menu code).
- Fix memory/X window leak (not destroying menu in panel plugin after
  it's closed; old menu didn't require it, but new one does).
- Use GtkFileChooserButtons in the panel plugin config dialog instead
  of entry box + button, and remove the 'Edit menu' button/menu item
  since we don't have a menu editor anymore.
- Add cell-spacing, cell-padding, and cell-text-width-proportion
  stlye properties to XfdesktopIconView to control spacing/sizing of
  the icon grid (bug 2886).  Patch from Giacomo Lozito.
- Add the ellipsize-icon-labels style property  to control whether
  or not unselected icons get their labels truncated (bug 2886).
  Patch from Daniel Gibson.
- Add style properties to enable painting a text shadow 'under' the
  desktop icon text labels (bug 4412).  Patch from Andrea Santilli.
- Add backdrop image preview to settings dialog.
- Make settings dialog pluggable into the Xfce Settings Manager.
- Make the Help button in the settings dialog do something.


4.5.90
======
- Redo how the menu system works so menus can be embedded in other
  menus.  This makes it possible for the right-click context menu
  to be the 'normal' applications menu when icons are disabled,
  but set to the desktop's own context menu when file icons are
  enabled.  In this latter case, the applications menu becomes a
  submenu of the desktop context menu (bug 2531).
- Ditch my custom semi-fd.o-compliant menu system in favor of
  XfceMenu, our new fd.o-compliant menu implementation written by
  Jannis Pohlmann.
- Fix URI parsing in .desktop files when launching an application so
  that the "field codes" (%-codes) are either properly ignored or
  are substituted properly.  This should fix a lot of problems where
  some apps were expecting some command-line arguments but the menu
  was just throwing them all away (bug 2942).
- Add support for 'zoomed' backdrop mode: fill the screen with the
  backdrop edge-to-edge by scaling and/or cropping as necessary.
  This doesn't mess with the aspect ratio and is pretty nifty.  Patch
  is from <trondsg@gmail.com> (bug 3138).
- Stop using our forked libnetk from libxfcegui4, and use the much
  better supported original libwnck.  Patch is from Nick Schermer
  (bug 3487).
- Support the GdkScreen::monitors-changed signal present in gtk+ 2.13
  and above.  This allows xfdesktop to notice if the user plugs or
  unplugs a monitor when using an xrandr1.2-capable X server and video
  driver.
- Support the new tooltips framework present in gtk 2.12 for
  XfdesktopIconView.  This is mostly user-invisible, but does decrease
  code size and memory usage ever so slightly, and removes a possible
  source of bugs.
- Remove all old MCS settings manager code and start using Xfconf,
  Xfce's new configuration system.
- New redesigned settings dialog, with hopefully some better usability.
- Move hidden options for showing special icons on the desktop into
  the settings dialog GUI.
- Add a color saturation adjustment to the backdrop image settings.
- Add "transparent" color style for the backdrop; if you already have
  another application drawing the backdrop, you can disable xfdesktop's
  image drawing and color drawing and "see through" to the window
  beneath it while still having desktop icons and the desktop menu
  available.  Requires ARGB windows (bug 4061).
- Fix font size used to draw desktop icons when the size isn't an
  integer point size (bug 4295).


4.4.2
=====
- Fix menu sometimes not popping up when using the keyboard shortcut,
  again.  Timeout waiting for grab is now 0.25s (bug 441).
- Fix desktop settings only getting applied to the first screen in
  non-Xinerama dualhead setups (but 3467).
- Fix spurious drag when double-clicking a volume icon that fails to
  mount (bug 3426).
- Clean out stale entries in file icon position file (bug 3267).
- Some minor memory leak fixes (some still remain, likely).
- Fix ==disable-menu-editor configure option.
- Always use button 0 in gtk_menu_popup() as GTK+ 2.11+ expects the
  same button to be pressed or it doesn't activate the entry (bug 3359).
- Don't set workspace for sticky windows in windowlist (bug 3317).
- Fix missing xfce_rc_close() causing memleak and too many open file
  descriptors (bug 3065).
- Fix the Italian xfdesktop menu causing a crash.


4.4.1
=====
- Fix entries in the menu.xml files that should not have been translated.
- Add support for menu file as argument (Bug #2876).
- Remove use of __FUNCTION__ as it breaks sun's compiler (Bug #2924).
- Blurry rendering of unscaled backgrounds (Bug #2939).
- Fix uri parsing to unescape '%##' stuff in the uri (Bug #2942).
- Many translation updates.


4.4.0
=====
We're just about ready to release Xfce 4.4.0!  Hooray!  There have been
many changes since my last entry.

Change since 4.4rc2:

- Fix support for applications that do pseudo-transparency (bug 2508).
- Change how icon cell size is calculated to avoid weirdness at large
  sizes (bug 1546).
- Fix icons disappearing when the icon/text size is set too large, and
  then not reappearing when the size is lowered again (bug 1546).
- Add hidden options to disable showing any or all of the 'File System',
  'Home', or 'Trash' icons.
- Partially fix backdrop setting problems when unsetting Xinerama
  stretch mode (bug 2573).
- Fix some possible (but unliklely) NULL pointer dereferences.
- Update documentation.

Changes since 4.4rc1:

- Fix crash when non-file:// URIs are dropped on the desktop (bug 2229).
- Handle Xinerama-enabled setups correctly so icons aren't placed in
  "dead areas" or on the boundary between monitors (bug 1538).
- Fix crash when reloading the desktop several times quickly (bug 2426).
- Trash files by default, add binding for shift+delete to force
  deletion (bug 2185).
- Fix crash when screen size changes (bug 2457).
- Fix problems with activating icons (bug 2452, 2206).
- Allow the icons to provide better information about what drag/drop
  actions are allowed, so user feedback about drags/drops is much
  better.
- Fix broken drop of multiple files onto the desktop (bug 2437).
- Be sure to notice if a removable volume's mount point changes
  (bug 2489).
- Fix 100% CPU problem when the desktop folder is deleted (bug 2160).

Changes since 4.4beta2:

- Fix backdrop image tearing during expose (bug 1944).
- Show icon tooltips where appropriate (bug 1526).
- Use thunarx extensions for the icon context menus and properties
  dialogs.
- Fix ugly gradients in the desktop wallpaper on 16-bit displays
  (bug 1819).
- Don't show a folder for the desktop directory itself (bug 1916).
- Fix problems with markup in text labels (bug 2082).
- Add 'File System', 'Home', and 'Trash' icons.
- Fix compositing emblems on icons (1875).
- Use native Pango ellipsising support for the windowlist menu, which
  looks way better (bug 2127).
- Allow panel plugin's menu to be opened at the pointer position
  (bug 2103).
- Don't allow cut or delete if the file/dir isn't writeable (buf 2081).
- Memory leak fixes (bug 1910).
- Put the icon context menu on the proper screen (bug 2351).

Changes since 4.4beta1:

- Attempt to create ~/Desktop/ if it doesn't exist (bug 1691).
- Fix non-ejectable media showing as ejectable.
- Fix removable media not appearing when its mount point has not yet
  been created.
- Don't have the desktop automatically take focus when it's mapped.
- Fix crash when removable volume has no mount point (bug 1763).
- Add support for creating launchers and URL launchers.
- Allow changing transparency of the icon label text background.
- Many icon drawing performance improvements, and fixes for some
  drawing glitches.
- Fix menu positioning for floating panels in the Xfce Menu panel
  plugin (bug 1660).
- Have the 'log out' dialog pop up if the user 'closes' the desktop
  window (bug 1776).
- Handle more thunar-vfs errors and prompts.
- Add XDirectSave support for dropping data on the desktop.
- Add support for dropping URLs from a browser on the desktop.
- Fix crash when mounting some removable volumes (bug 1897).

(Brian)


4.4beta1
========
As usual, it's been a while since I've written anything.  The major new
accomplishment since my last entry is that all the desktop icon code
has been refactored, and now, in addition to CDEish minimised application
icons, xfdesktop supports traditional desktop file icons.  This
functionality requires very recent versions of libexo and thunar-vfs to
be present and installed before compiling xfdesktop.

Olivier and Benny just put together the 4.4beta1 release over the weekend,
so we're (finally!) gearing up to release 4.4.0 final within the next 4-6
weeks (hopefully).

(Brian)


20051031
========
Happy Halloween.   haven't wrote anything here in quite a while.
Quite a bit has happened, including numerous bugfixes and enhancements.
I don't have the energy to list them all here, but the one thing that
really sticks out is that xfdesktop now supports icons on the desktop.
No, it's not what you think: you can't put launcher icons on it, and
you can't view lists of files either.  What you *can* do is see icons
representing all your minimized applications, a la CDE.  Other
projects (xffm, Thunar) will address the need for file and launcher
icons.

The Xfce menu panel plugin has seen several improvements, including
some menu generation speed enhancements, and the ability to put a
text title in the button, as well as using non-square icons.

On the bugfix front, notably, you can bind 'xfdesktop -menu' and
'xfdesktop -windowlist' to keys now, and it should work properly all
the time.

There are a few small enhancements to the backdrop functionality,
such as the ability to stretch a single image across a Xinerama-
enabled desktop.

I suppose that's all for now.  Development of Xfce as a whole has been
moving somewhat slowly lately, so 4.4.0 may not be coming as soon as
we'd like.

(Brian)


Xfce 4.2rc3
===========
Xfdesktop is shaping up quite well for the 4.2.0 release, but there
were a few necessary bugfixes:

- Redo the backdrop setting method to fix redraw problems with
  Gtk 2.6, and to make it a bit nicer to maintain.
- Fix a backdrop drawing problem that crops up if you're using
  multihead and a gtk2 theme with a background pixmap.
- The desktop menu cache now tracks changes to the XDG_DATA_DIRS
  environment variable and invalidates the cache if it changes.
- Jean-Francois did some stuff with menueditor, but I think it
  was just some code reorg and optimisation.
- Added back the add/remove workspace items to the windowlist
  menu because Francois asked oh-so-nicely.

Hopefully this should be it, and xfdesktop won't need any more changes
for 4.2.0-final.  Of course, now that I said it, it's ruined.

(Brian)


Xfce 4.2rc2
===========
Not much has happened with xfdesktop in the last month, mainly some
minorish bugfixes:

- Fix problem with panel plugin where the button can sometimes
  stay "pressed in" if the menu isn't available.
- Documentation updates (Jasper, mostly)
- Tweak menu directory searching.
- Filter desktop files based on desktop-id to avoid duplicate
  menu entries.
- Fix bug where sticky windows weren't shown in the window list
  at all.
- Fix menu module not loading at all on some systems when the
  quit() symbol can't be resolved.
- Fix problem where window titles with GMarkup in them weren't
  being escaped properly.
- Remove an occurrence of xfce_get_userfile() (replace with
  xfce_resource_lookup()).
- Remove workspace add/remove, as that doesn't work properly
  anymore, and it probably shouldn't be there anyway.

(Brian)


Xfce 4.2beta2
=============
Wow, it's been a while since anyone's put anything in here.  We're
gearing up for the release of 4.2beta2, the second beta release
on the road to 4.2.0.  A lot has happened in the last year:

- Partial rewrite and redesign to support multihead setups (with
  or without Xinerama).
- Better support for handling screen size changes via the XRandR
  extension.
- A new autogenerated menu that searches for .desktop files on
  your filesystem and organises them into hierarchical menus.
- Icon support for the applications menu and window list menu
- Backdrop color gradient support.
- Ability to adjust the brightness of the backdrop image.
- Jean-Francois Wauthy wrote a graphical menu editor, which is
  distributed with xfdesktop.
- A panel plugin that can display the menu from xfce4-panel.
- An enhanced and partially redesigned settings window, with
  some global menu settings added.

(Brian)


20031019
========
- Add '-reload', '-menu' and '-windowlist' arguments to xfdesktop to
  make it reaload/refresh the image, popup the menu or popup the
  windowlist repectively.

(Jasper)


20031016
========
- Added support for the XRandR X extension available with XFree86
  4.3 and above. The XRandR support requires you to have Gtk+
  2.2 or better installed.

(Benny)