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Please update Whisker-menu-plugin to v2.4.6 (or v2.4.5)

• App: Whisker Menu - an alternate application launcher for Xfce
• Webpage: https://gottcode.org/xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin/
• Source: https://github.com/gottcode/xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin
• Status in MX: v2.4.4 (Main repo) & v2.4.3. (Testing repo)
• Status in Debian: v2.4.5 (Bullseye) & v2.4.6 (Sid)
• Reason: "Fix extra key press to select search items" in v2.4.5 according to this.
  On my system I'm holding Whisker menu v2.3.1 (from Debian stable) just because of this bug.

Of course, feel free to put it in "Testing repo". I'm willing to test it.

Thanks.

EDIT: package updated thanks to SwampRabbit

I’ll take a look at it, assuming those will work on our version of Xfce fine.

SwampRabbit wrote: Fri Jul 31, 2020 11:17 am I’ll take a look at it, assuming those will work on our version of Xfce fine.

Thank you SwampRabbit. You rock! I'm looking forward to it!

Yeah, Graeme just tweeted about that upgrade a week ago. Mostly translation additions IIRC.

unnameduser wrote: Fri Jul 31, 2020 1:22 pm Thank you SwampRabbit. You rock! I'm looking forward to it!

Don't say that until its ready lol...

Should be today at some point, no promises... got normal work, other packages and testing going on too.

SwampRabbit wrote: Fri Jul 31, 2020 2:10 pm Don't say that until its ready lol...

I've got faith. :)

SwampRabbit wrote: Fri Jul 31, 2020 2:10 pm Should be today at some point, no promises... got normal work, other packages and testing going on too.

Take your time. I understand priorities.

Jerry3904 wrote: Fri Jul 31, 2020 1:41 pm Yeah, Graeme just tweeted about that upgrade a week ago. Mostly translation additions IIRC.

Quote from webpage linked in my first post:

Changes in version 2.4.6 (Released on July 23, 2020)

• Fix crash during grab check (Issue #19)
• Fix background incorrect without compositing

Changes in version 2.4.5 (Released on July 21, 2020)

• Fix saving plugin title with overridden default text (Bug #16822)
  
• Fix extra key press to select search items (Issue #8)
  
• Fix icon view skipping first item when pressing arrow key
• Fix incorrect signal name
• Fix nonfunctional grab check
• Translation updates: Asturian, Dutch, Esperanto, Hungarian, Icelandic, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian

unnameduser wrote: Fri Jul 31, 2020 2:57 pm Take your time. I understand priorities.

I have both packaged, figured I'd give you a chance to test both since you are so helpful with that. Both don't "need testing" but you never know with our older version of the panel.
I assume Debian didn't replace 2.4.5 with 2.4.6 in Bullseye yet due to how fast the releases came out and time for testing.
So making sure 2.4.6 works without issue is important, I'd rather go with 2.4.6 because saves some time sending one then the other to our repo manager too, and especially with the fixes in 2.4.6.

2.4.5
https://drive.google.com/file/d/12EtxUU ... sp=sharing

2.4.6
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZBUryT ... sp=sharing

I haven't tested them yet myself, but will do it tomorrow at some point.

Thanks for the update request unnameduser! This update will fix one of the very few (!) aggravations I had with MX-19.

That minor aggravation is when entering a search term in the Whisker menu with multiple options returned, having to press the down arrow key twice to move the highlighted entry off the first option because the first key depression does nothing. FYI, that behavior does not happen in MX-18.

From the quote provided by unnameduser, this https://gitlab.xfce.org/panel-plugins/x ... -/issues/8 is what "Issue #8" is that was changed in v2.4.5 (21 July 2020).

I look forward to the update, Thanks everyone!

Stuart_M wrote: Sat Aug 01, 2020 9:43 am I look forward to the update, Thanks everyone!

You can test it too if you’re up for it, the .debs are in .tar.gz files at those link locations. The more testing by users the better.