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commit 6eab4345c7fa79fd262e37ace5bb71ee5729ed4c
Author: Landry Breuil <lan...@xfce.org>
Date: Sat Feb 28 15:04:24 2015 +0100
first pass at a news item for 4.12
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diff --git a/pages/news-array.php b/pages/news-array.php
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+++ b/pages/news-array.php
@@ -12,13 +12,60 @@ $news = array (
'date' => '28 feb 2015',
'author' => 'Release Manager',
'paragraphs' => array (
+ R_('Xfce 4.12 is be the best release ever (yes, we like
to party!)!'),
+ R_('Source : Internet comments.'),
+ R_('Today, after 2 years and 10 months of work, we are
pleased to announce the release of the Xfce desktop 4.12, a new stable version
that supersedes Xfce 4.10.'),
+ R_('This long period can only be explained by how
awesome Xfce 4.10 was. But as all things, it needed some refreshing - and for
that we saw lots of new contributors providing valuable feedback, features and
bugfixes. As always, Xfce follows its steady pace of evolution without
revolution that seems to match our users\' needs.'),
+ R_('In this 4.12 cycle, we mainly focused on polishing
our user experience on the desktop and window manager, and on updating some
components to take advantage of newly available technologies.'),
+ R_('The main highlights of this release are:'),
+ '<ul>',
+ '<li>'.R_('The window manager gained a new
themable Alt+Tab dialog with optional windows preview and a list mode. Initial
Client side decoration support was implemented, window tiling mode was improved
providing support for corner-tiling, and a new zooming mode was added. A HiDPI
Xfwm theme was also added.').'</li>',
+ '<li>'.R_('The panel can now intelligently hide
itself, supports Gtk3 plugins, and saw lots of its third-party plugins updated
to take full advantage of the features added in 4.10.').'</li>',
+
+ '<li>'.R_('The desktop has a new wallpaper
settings dialog, per workspace wallpaper support, and better multi-monitor
handling. It also supports displaying folder coverart and emblems on icons
now.').'</li>',
+
+ '<li>'.R_('Our session manager was updated to
use logind and/or upower if available for hibernate/suspend support. For
portability and to respect our users\' choices, fallback modes were implemented
relying on os-specific backends.').'</li>',
+
+ '<li>'.R_('Support for multi-monitor use was
improved in a new display settings dialog and a quick setup popup on monitor
plugging').'</li>',
+
+ '<li>'.R_('The appearance dialog now showcases
previews for icons and themes.').'</li>',
+
+ '<li>'.R_('Xfsettingsd now supports
libinput.').'</li>',
+
+ '<li>'.R_('Power management was not forgotten:
A new panel plugin was created, logind/upower support was added to handle
battery/lid/brightness events, and locking via light-locker was implemented.
The settings dialog was also revamped, and support for X11 screenblanking was
added.').'</li>',
+
+ '<li>'.R_('Our file manager, the beloved
Thunar, saw an insane amount of improvements: tab support, tons of bug fixes,
speed-ups, key shortcuts for custom actions, better naming of file copies and
links, nice freespace bar in properties, tweaks for the renamer and other
dialogs, improved keyboard navigation, fixes for the treeview pane, better
wallpaper support, Gtk3 bookmarks support, multiple file properties... need we
say more?').'</li>',
+
+ '<li>'.R_('To prepare the future of Xfce with
Gtk3, which no longer requires theme engines, we are stopping the development
of our Gtk theme engine, and dropping our Gtk3 engine - theme makers, please
update your themes to CSS if you want them to work on the next Xfce
version.').'</li>',
+
+ '<li>'.R_('Due to gstreamer1.0 having dropped
the mixer-interface entirely, and xfce4-mixer and xfce4-volumed relying on this
interface with gstreamer0.10, our mixer application and volume daemon cannot be
ported to 1.0 and are consequently not maintained anymore.').'</li>',
+ '</ul>',
+
+ R_('Xfce wouldn\'t be what it is right now without all
its goodies. In this area, we also saw a flurry of activity, most notably:'),
+ '<ul>',
+ '<li>'.R_('Xfburn gained BluRay Disc burning
support').'</li>',
+ '<li>'.R_('Task manager UI was totally
revamped, and got ported to Gtk3').'</li>',
+ '<li>'.R_('Parole\'s UI was totally redone,
parts of it rewritten with many features added. Furthermore it was ported to
Gtk3 and gstreamer1.0').'</li>',
+ '<li>'.R_('Mousepad was totally rewritten and
got an initial port to Gtk3').'</li>',
+ '<li>'.R_('Imgur.com support was added to the
screenshooter').'</li>',
+ '<li>'.R_('A new GNOME-Shell-like dashboard
named xfdashboard is now available').'</li>',
+ '<li>'.R_('A new alternative menu for the panel
named whiskermenu was added').'</li>',
+ '<li>'.R_('The GNOME2 hardware monitor plugin
was ported to our panel').'</li>',
+ '<li>'.R_('Weather plugin got a totally new
user interface with powerful customization options and provides tons of
detailed information').'</li>',
+ '<li>'.R_('Eyes plugin uses 3D coordinates to
calculate its eye position, so even more sometimes scary, sometimes funny eyes
will spy on you!').'</li>',
+ '<li>'.R_('Netload plugin works with the new
udev net interface names and can be configured to show transfer rates in the
panel').'</li>',
+ '<li>'.R_('Clipboard manager plugin optionally
displays a QR code').'</li>',
+ '<li>'.R_('Cpufreq plugin now supports the
intel pstate driver and can adapt better for different panel sizes and
information displayed').'</li>',
+ '<li>'.R_('Nearly all plugins have been
improved to give the same look and feel and to support the new deskbar panel
mode').'</li>',
+ '</ul>',
R_('An online tour of the changes in Xfce 4.12 can be
viewed here:'),
'<a
href="http://xfce.org/about/tour";>http://xfce.org/about/tour</a>',
R_('A detailed overview of the changes between Xfce
4.10 and Xfce 4.12 releases can be found on the following page:'),
'<a
href="http://xfce.org/download/changelogs";>http://xfce.org/download/changelogs</a>',
R_('This release can be downloaded either as a set of
individual packages or as a single fat tarball including all these individual
versions:'),
'<a
href="http://archive.xfce.org/xfce/4.12";>http://archive.xfce.org/xfce/4.12</a>',
- R_('Thank you all the contributors, bug reporters, as
well as translators and packagers for your efforts in making this release
possible.'),
+ R_('A warm thank you all the contributors, translators
and packagers for your efforts in making this release possible. We would also
like to thank our fantastic users and occasional contributors who submitted bug
reports, helped us find issues and sometimes provided patches. We are currently
reviewing all patches sent to us and will include many more fixes to Xfce in
the next release. We would also like to thank the many people who donated money
to our project via <a href="https://www [...]
+ R_('As always, we welcome everyone who would like to
contribute to the development of Xfce! You can either <a
href="http://docs.xfce.org/xfce/building";>test Xfce</a> and <a
href="http://bugzilla.xfce.org";>report bugs</a>, you can help us with <a
href="https://www.transifex.com/tag/xfce/";>translations</a>, and <a
href="http://docs.xfce.org";>documentation</a> with <a
href="https://wiki.xfce.org/design/start";>usability and user experience</a> by
packaging Xfce into your distribution, and [...]
R_('Best regards,<br />The Xfce development team'))
),
array ('title' => R_('Xfce 4.10 released'),
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