First milestone 0.1. Includes bindings for libxfce4util, libxfce4menu, libxfconf, libxfcegui4, libexo, and libxfce4panel.

• 2009-05-06: 0.1-a alpha 1
• 2009-06-04: 0.1-a2 alpha 2
• 2009-06-07: 0.1-a3 alpha 3
• 2009-07-18: 0.1-rc release candidate 1
• 2009-xx-xx: 0.1 final
• 20xx-xx-xx: 0.1.x maintainance releases

Here are some remarks about the changes between the original APIs and the resulting VAPIs.

The generated VAPI file covers for these headers.

libxfce4util-config.h
xfce-debug.h
xfce-generics.h
xfce-i18n.h
xfce-license.h
xfce-miscutils.h
xfce-posix-signal-handler.h
xfce-rc.h
xfce-resource.h
xfce-utf8.h

• Xfce.Rc: constructable class
  • new: xfce_rc_simple_open()
  • new_from_resource: xfce_rc_config_open()
  • destroy: xfce_rc_close()

xfce-resource.h excluded, custom VAPI.

• Xfce.Resource: class with static functions
  • deprecate XfceMatchFunc, match_custom, pop_path, push_path
• Xfce.ResourceType.*: XFCE_RESOURCE_TYPE_* enum

xfce-posix-signal-handler.h excluded, custom VAPI.

• Xfce.PosixSignalHandler: class with static functions
  • Xfce.PosixSignalHandler.Callback: callback for set_handler function

xfce-i18n.h excluded, custom VAPI.

• Xfce.textdomain: xfce_textdomain
  • convenience function on top of the bindtextdomain and textdomain functions, all other related functions to libxfce4util/xfce-i18n.h are deprecated

• Kiosk Mode (xfce-kiosk.h)
  • Xfconf provides possibility to lock capabilities (see perchannel-xml.txt)
  • Xfconf.Channel.is_property_locked
• Unicode Manipulation
• File Utilities (xfce-fileutils.h)
  • Xfce.mkdirhier: use GLib.mkdir_with_parents instead
• Miscellaneous Utilities
• Generics

• rename xfce_menu_monitor_* inside the class Xfce.MenuMonitor
• drop properties (they are all redundant with get/set functions and some of them are not implemented for instance in XfceMenuItem)

• rename xfconf_g_property_* inside the class Xfconf.Property
• drop the functions that take a va_list in argument
• drop the functions that take or return a GPtrArray
• drop xfconf_free_array
• int16 GType is yet to be implemented

• XfceAppMenuItem
  • deprecate new_from_desktop_entry
• XfceTitledDialog
  • drop redundant get/set methods
• move functions from Fundamentals and Core inside respective classes
• new class WidgetHelpers with two functions create_framebox and create_framebox_with_content
• deprecate everything else

• move extension functions to the class Exo.Extensions
• move md5 digest functions that don't start with exo_md5_digest_* to the class Exo.Md5Digest
• move exo_str_get_md5_str function into the class Exo.Md5
• move exo_url_* functions to the class Exo.Url
• move functions from execute.h to the class Exo.Execute
• rename signal names duplicated with method names:
  • exo_icon_view_item_activated() ⇒ exo_icon_view_activate_item()
  • ExoIconView::select_all ⇒ all_selected
  • ExoIconView::unselect_all ⇒ all_unselected
  • ExoToolbarsModel::get_item_data ⇒ item_data
  • ExoToolbarsModel::get_item_id ⇒ item_id
  • ExoToolbarsModel::get_item_type ⇒ item_type