Another Enlightenment E17 Alpha Already Tips Up
The rapid releases of Enlightenment E17 Alpha continue. Just two days after E17 Alpha 6, there is now a seventh alpha release with less than one month to go until the official E17 1.0 release.
While just under development for two days, E17 Alpha 7 changes are extensive and consist of:
- 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
More details at Enlightenment.org. After more than one decade in development, E17 will be released on 21 December.
While just under development for two days, E17 Alpha 7 changes are extensive and consist of:
- 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
More details at Enlightenment.org. After more than one decade in development, E17 will be released on 21 December.
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