Enlightenment News

This release of E17 is also known as "The Hulk" for obvious reasons.

Changelog:

Translation updates

Clock and cpufreq gadgets now consume less cpu

Slider widget can no longer explode the stack

Backlight setting improved, now more reliable

mkstemps no longer used; portability++

"Really move" option in filemanager renamed to something more descriptive

Resizable dialogs are now able to be maximized

Scrollbars now hide in more cases where they should

Dragging files to other applications from filemanager no longer causes file icon to disappear

Filemanager toolbar path items delete when corresponding path is removed

Mixer no longer causes a crash when pulseaudio is killed

Navigate menu no longer crashes when repeatedly navigating to a directory which has no listable contents

Tasks gadget no longer tries to delete its items repeatedly

Systray icon scaling improved

XDirectSave DND operations now work again

"hicolor" icon theme automatically applied now when no theme is selected

Fileselector no longer changes its entry text when changing directories

Filemanager "New File" action no longer creates file with garbage content

"Don't composite fullscreen windows" is now disabled by default

Notifications no longer do anything (including crash) when received during desklock

Gadgets module no longer crashes on unload and also correctly shows gadgets when loaded

Read-only entry widgets are now actually read-only

Filemanager no longer as hungry, saves some DND events for pager to enable drags on desktop pagers

Removed some potentially troublesome settings from advanced Composite settings

Systray now informs the user that it should not be placed on an invisible shelf

Window moving/resizing (and other mouse-related events) no longer behave strangely in the presence of autohiding shelves

Submenu item arrows now properly sized and aligned

[THEME] Lots of icons

• E17 GAMMA - 80662 [GZ] [BZ2]

We are happy to announce a new minor series of updates to the Enlightenment Foundation Libraries in order to match the newly release E17 BETA. Packages which had bug fixes were: Ecore, Edje, Eet, Eina, Eio, Elementary, Emotion, Ethumb, Evas and Efreet. The others did not have changes but new tarballs have been spun in order to keep their version synchronized. Please read the ChangeLog and NEWS in each of the specific tarballs in order to see what has been fixed. This release corresponds with SVN revision 80477.

• Eina 1.7.3 - [GZ] [BZ2]
• Eet 1.7.3 - [GZ] [BZ2]
• Evas 1.7.3 - [GZ] [BZ2]
• Ecore 1.7.3 - [GZ] [BZ2]
• Embryo 1.7.3 - [GZ] [BZ2]
• Edje 1.7.3 - [GZ] [BZ2]
• Efreet 1.7.3 - [GZ] [BZ2]
• E_dbus 1.7.3 - [GZ] [BZ2]
• Eeze 1.7.3 - [GZ] [BZ2]
• Expedite 1.7.3 - [GZ] [BZ2]
• Evas Generic Loaders 1.7.3 - [GZ] [BZ2]
• Eio 1.7.3 - [GZ] [BZ2]
• Emotion 1.7.3 - [GZ] [BZ2]
• Ethumb 1.7.3 - [GZ] [BZ2]
• Elementary 1.7.3 - [GZ] [BZ2]
• Evil 1.7.3 - [GZ] [BZ2]

After over a decade of development, E17 has finally reached beta status. Big thanks to everyone who helped it to get this far.

Changelog:

Translation updates

Solaris build fixes

Improved performance during secure deletion

Various small memory leaks plugged

Keyboard config now supports "evdev" as a model

Pointer slide once again properly sets focus

Various config dialogs once again resizable

Icons no longer disappear after dragging them into external applications

Navigate menu slightly reorganized, now also navigates relative to clicked icons

Double clicking icons in filemanager with single click activation enabled no longer performs two opens

Shelf autohide now functions properly in multi-monitor environments

Shelf autohide more accurate when moving mouse from shelf into external application

Resizing from bottom border now functional on applications which set aspect ratio (mplayer)

Pager no longer sometimes loses windows with default theme

Pager once again works as a desktop gadget with default theme

Tiling module improvements when using Show Desktop action

Xmodmap/Xresources/Xdefaults now loaded on restarts

Fullscreening a maximized window no longer causes window's previous geometry to be lost

Mixer much more reliable when using pulseaudio

Various fds will no longer be passed to child processes

Quickaccess module no longer crashes on windows which have no ICCCM name/class set

Quickaccess module now functions correctly with windows which do not accept focus

Illume no longer breaks executable tracking

Wizard no longer hangs on first-run if efreet is not detected

Systray icons now scale with shelf size

[THEME] Illume

[THEME] Temperature gadget text now readable

• E17 BETA - 80465 [GZ] [BZ2]

I have no comments to add to this release other than to say it's a good one. And that it reminds me of March.

Changelog:

Translation updates

Language changes now always trigger a restart

XDG paths should no longer contain duplicate entries

Fileselector no longer fails to open some files

First-run wizard no longer waits unnecessarily long on subsequent runs

FreeBSD warning fixes

Disabling tiling module now restores original border geometry

Composite module now uses black as its client fill color

Desktop gadgets no longer cause crashes when immediately deleted from the config dialog

Connman network list now sizes based on a percentage of screen size

Various memory leaks plugged

Filemanager once again is able to open symlinks to directories using in-place opening

Most config dialogs have been made non-resizable

Everything will now hide on desklock

enlightenment_start no longer ptraces while valgrinding

More wallpapers added (Provided by Nicolas Beaumont http://www.nicolas-beaumont.fr/)

Compile fixes for various E17 utilities

Crash reduction in Everything launcher

Keybindings config dialog no longer randomly changes bindings when scrolling quickly through list

Filemanager windows no longer appear outside screen limits

"Focus" option in window switcher config dialog now functions correctly

Cut/Copy/Paste now function more correctly in certain text entries

Menus are now limited to screen size

Filemanager sidebar scrollbars no longer appear unnecessarily

Mixer can now set volume to 100%

Closing applications started by E17 no longer sometimes triggers a crash

Pointer slide (to/from new windows) is now more reliable

Revert focus now works correctly for mouse focus

Pointer slide no longer sets focus during slide

[THEME] Battery

[THEME] Everything

• E17 ALPHA8 - 80174 [GZ] [BZ2]

This alpha is special because it is the alpha released the day after rasterman's birthday.

Changelog:

Translation updates

DND operations in the filemanager now crash less often

Notification gadget euthanized: too buggy to live

Gadget for fileman_opinfo shows a red light when its window wants attention

Birthday module added (Happy birthday raster!)

Extremely large menus no longer align improperly

Gadget popups once again position themselves correctly for left/top shelves

Desktop gadgets no longer cause a crash when rotating a monitor

Shelf autohide no longer causes a crash when triggered during a monitor rotation

RandR dialog now reopens when left open during an E restart

System action dialogs have had various text improvements

Filemanager windows no longer unset custom border styles

Tories rejoice, the UK flag in the first-run wizard now displays correctly

List items will be more often deselected as intended in some cases

Shelves may now show slightly later after startup to avoid resizing their canvases

DND operations on desktop gadgets are less likely to show an ugly icon while dragging

Several memory leaks plugged

A number of desktop gadget DND-related crashes fixed

Connman network list is now larger and refreshes more regularly

Birthday module removed

Mixer module no longer sometimes causes magic failures on shutdown

Application menus now update themselves when the corresponding menu file is changed

Mixer module no longer sets volume to zero on first load

Various small dialog text improvements

First-run wizard now runs shutdown routines for its pages

First-run wizard's first page no longer accidentally the whole second page

First-run wizard is now less likely to skip pages at random

First-run wizard no longer shows the same page repeatedly in some cases

[THEME] Temperature module

[THEME] Backlight gadget

[THEME] Mixer module

[THEME] First-run wizard button no longer animates on click when disabled

• E17 ALPHA7 - 79912 [GZ] [BZ2]

With a beefy changelog accompanying it, I'm pleased to post another alpha.
It should be noted that this is the first alpha worthy of receiving the praise "improved LESS CRASHING and IMPROVEMENTS TO NOT CRASHING".

Changelog:

Translation updates

AMD K10 temperature sensor support on OpenBSD

Video file previews will now stutter less and respect tooltip boundaries more

Battery module now crashes less on OpenBSD

Icon resizing is now smoother

Gadget menus can no longer cause crashes when the gadget is deleted

Fileselector once again allows selection from directory previews

Filemanager DND can no longer interfere with gadget DND to cause crashes

Improved support for XDG_DESKTOP_DIR

Filemanager no longer restores non-default desktop paths when desktop navigation mode is disabled

Improvements/fixes to lost window warping behavior

New ibar sources now copy from default source

Right clicking on any part of a desktop gadget is now sufficient to disable move/resize

Filemanager maximum thumbnail size config slider now more granular

Module config dialog now updates when module states are externally toggled

Connman wizard page now shows regardless of connman support, also disables connman module if support disabled

First-run wizard now correctly updates after language changes

First-run wizard button now reads "Please Wait" when it is disabled

First-run wizard now has a page to (not) add a taskbar to the default shelf

First-run wizard now unsets winlist pointer warping when "click" focus model is chosen

First-run wizard now performs a more accurate wait when building XDG cache

Edge bindings dialog can no longer crash when closed before its grab dialog

Edge bindings dialog no longer allows blank bindings to be added

Keybindings dialog no longer adds non-default ctrl+shift bindings when restoring default bindings

Gadget popups will no longer sometimes obscure the source gadget if triggered on an offscreen gadget

"Show Calendar" action renamed to "Toggle Calendar"

Fileman Operations module now uses same infos as filemanager

Password mode toggling in entry now works more effectively

[THEME] Desktop gadget

[THEME] RandR dialog

[THEME] Notification module

[THEME] Pixel borders fixed

[THEME] Pixel borders allow drag resizing

[THEME] Cpufreq gadget

[THEME] Analog clock

• E17 ALPHA6 - 79752 [GZ] [BZ2]

Same week, but now we have both an alpha and a new EFL stable release. The EFL had a new minor series of updates in order to fix bugs that were preventing the E17 alphas from correctly building. The only packages which had bug fixes were Edje, Eet, Elementary and Evas, but new tarballs have been spun for all the EFL in order to keep their version synchronized. Please read the ChangeLog and NEWS in each of the specific tarballs in order to see what has been fixed. This release corresponds with SVN revision 79552. The new E17 ALPHA 5, based on SVN revision 79568, has the following changes:

More translation updates

New default theme is more complete

Entry widgets will no longer sometimes lock E when resizing

First-run wizard is now smarter with regard to the signals it listens to

We're organizing a new Release Team in order to help out with this entire process, and would like to call out to everyone interested in helping out to please join the enlightenment-release mailing list. People who are actively working on packaging or who have interest in it are specially welcome.

• Eina 1.7.2 - [GZ] [BZ2]
• Eet 1.7.2 - [GZ] [BZ2]
• Evas 1.7.2 - [GZ] [BZ2]
• Ecore 1.7.2 - [GZ] [BZ2]
• Embryo 1.7.2 - [GZ] [BZ2]
• Edje 1.7.2 - [GZ] [BZ2]
• Efreet 1.7.2 - [GZ] [BZ2]
• E_dbus 1.7.2 - [GZ] [BZ2]
• Eeze 1.7.2 - [GZ] [BZ2]
• Expedite 1.7.2 - [GZ] [BZ2]
• Evas Generic Loaders 1.7.2 - [GZ] [BZ2]
• Eio 1.7.2 - [GZ] [BZ2]
• Emotion 1.7.2 - [GZ] [BZ2]
• Ethumb 1.7.2 - [GZ] [BZ2]
• Elementary 1.7.2 - [GZ] [BZ2]
• Evil 1.7.2 - [GZ] [BZ2]
• E17 ALPHA5 - [GZ] [BZ2]

Another week, another alpha. Changelog:

Translation updates

Fixed submenu positioning bug

Fixes for modal dialog windows (unbreaks image import dialog)

.spec file improvements

OSX compatibility fixes

RandR dialog presents refresh rates in right click menu

Further improvements to new default theme, particularly digital clock appearance

Theme info menu item is now more clear

Default theme now allows file renaming on longpress

• E17 ALPHA4 - 79478 [GZ] [BZ2]

Despite being only three days since the last alpha release, we've still got quite a few changes.
Here's a list of them:

Translation updates

First-run wizard should now be more reliable at detecting applications

Default theme now much more complete

Mixer volume changing actions should no longer disappear

Text file previews no longer contain trailing garbage

Window geometry prior to maximization is now remembered across restarts

Pulseaudio mixer should now disconnect properly when necessary

Filemanager will no longer cause data to be lost when moving directories to other devices

Window list menu items will now abbreviate properly

Some menus (such as the Favorite Apps menu) will now place themselves more optimally

Favorite Apps menu now preloads on startup to decrease time taken to display it

Filemanager tab completion works again

Mouse cursor will no longer be stuck in text mode when dragging out of an entry

Wizard no longer attempts to set dummy keyboard layouts which can override manual layouts

Wizard now sorts keyboard layouts alphabetically

"Application Theme" settings panel renamed to "GTK Application Theme"

• E17 ALPHA3 - 79398 [GZ] [BZ2]

It's time for (drum roll) the second alpha release of E17!
There's a lot of fixes that went into this delayed release, but I'm leaving work now so I won't mention them by name. Nor will I mention glima, who single-handedly managed to break configs for everyone while blaming me for it.

Enjoy this release, which I have helpfully nicknamed "Baldy" as a way of mocking one of my coworkers.

• E17 ALPHA2 - [GZ] [BZ2]