Ticket #1981: Make wallpaper preview respect aspect ratio of image.
There’s this super cool container widget in E17 called the aspect widget. It automatically resizes things to keep their aspect ratio.
Ticket #1980: EFM & Navigate… flashdrives woes.
Sometimes, Frenchmen forget to put NULL checks in their libraries.
Ticket #1976: Brightness-gadget/bulb should be “on” on startup, but it’s “off”.
I recently added an event for backlight level updates for another project, and now I have the joy of using it to fix a bug.
Ticket #1683: EFM blocks completely when listing large directories
The heavy artillery was called in for this one, and with raster’s help we are now able to load large directories in slightly less time than it takes to write a filemanager from scratch.
Other Improvements Today:
- EFM now performs inline renames when creating new directories
- Xmodmap settings no longer lost on kbd layout change
- Choosing not to overwrite a file no longer results in the file’s icon disappearing
- Changing shelf orientation from the shelf menu no longer causes errors or shelf duplication
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BTW is E17 able to use systemd for suspend shutdown etc.?