I made a new release of Whisker Menu today, but users won’t be able to tell. 😛 That is because this release is just for switching to the Meson build system to match the rest of Xfce. There were a few minor source fixes related to that, but no functionality changes. I will be removing support for CMake in the next feature release, but it will hang around for the rest of the 2.10 releases.

I was recently made aware of a bug in Tetzle that has apparently been there from the beginning: alt-tabbing to a different program would break interaction with the game board. I hadn’t noticed because I almost never use alt-tab to switch between programs. 😉

While fixing that bug, I discovered that several other keyboard interactions with the game board were also glitchy. It even did not automatically snap pieces when moving them by they keyboard! That was added to mouse-only play back in 2008, so these are some longstanding bugs. I guess not many people play Tetzle with the keyboard?

I am much happier with the code now, and I think I have sorted out all of the bugs with the keyboard play. Enjoy!

I guess I wasn’t quite done making releases. 🤷 Tanglet would not let you choose a language other than English for the game board, which is a pretty serious bug! It also listed an empty language as a choice for the board language, which is just silly. I fixed that in Connectagram as well. And I made a further fix for the multiple monitor support for Whisker Menu. Whew. Now I think I am done for a while!

I really did not expect to be making releases of my programs anytime soon, but things come up. First somebody reported a crash in Tetzle when attaching multiple pieces, then somebody else reported that player names were messed up in the high scores dialogs of my games under Windows, and finally the tool I used to update the Linux desktop integration files is unmaintained and broken so I needed to replace my use of that. Oh, and Whisker Menu did not show up in the right location when using multiple monitors under Wayland. Whew. I think that covers everything! I doubt most users will notice a difference—although packagers will need to add gettext as build dependency—but enjoy the new updates! And now I am going to take a break for a while… I hope. 😉

I am always surprised when I make a feature release of Whisker Menu. The menu has been in a state I would consider done for many years, and yet somehow I eventually add features. Amusingly, I don’t know if I have used a single feature added to Whisker Menu. 😉

What’s New?

To the relief of many, I found a way to bring back edge resizing! 🎉 I had to come up with a hack to force the resizing, so it is a little choppy for me on X11. Nevertheless, it works again! And since I am using the same code for Wayland, it allows you to resize there as well. As the resize code doesn’t know where the window is in relation to the panel button, resizing works from all edges and will snap the window back to where it belongs when you are finished.

I don’t know if the other features are quite as exciting, but here are the highlights:

I added the ability to autostart applications. You can already do that in Xfce, but it isn’t quite as convenient as just right-clicking a launcher in Whisker Menu. This request was from many years ago, and I never could settle some issues. So I decided to just ignore them. 😉

I also added a fallback to the search page. If no applications are found when searching, it will show you all of your search actions and allow you to pass what you have searched to them. Obviously, this doesn’t work with regular expression search actions, but it does for the rest!

And I found a solution to another annoyance people had: Whisker Menu will now only select items when you move the mouse, not when the menu is shown. That way you don’t have to care where the mouse is when you open the menu from a keyboard shortcut. I did consider making it always select the first item when the menu is shown, but I wasn’t sure that would have been a popular solution.

Enjoy!

Downloads

Source tarball

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