New E17 Release: BETA

Written for Enlightenment by Michael Moroni on 2012-12-07

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

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