It's OK - problem solved. Seems I had some old headers lying around in /usr/include/xfce4 which needed to be renamed/moved. All is well now. XFCE looking good I must say.

xfwm, thunar, and xfce4-settings and the other core components should all compile with no problem have you removed all previous libs etc as I had a problem when I first tried to compile 4.10 as I had components of 4.6 installed after removing them all went well.
The problem with some non-core apps is the removal of libxfcegui4 (screenshooter etc) but installing the 4.8 lib and applying a patch avaliable here:
http://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?id=6967
worked fine.

WHOOPS! You already solved it ( my excuse is I'm not on my propoer machine )

Yes; thanks anyway.

Looks like Xfce 4.10pre2 was released 5 days ago and they are shooting for a final release on 28 April, one week from now.

http://blog.xfce.org/2012/04/xfce-4-10pre2-released/

Is anyone running pre2?

Thanks.

I updated some components (exo, Thunar, xfdesktop) manually, but I have yet to see if anything else changed.

I can confirm one rather annoying bug got fixed. Some icon themes that didn't work before, work after Xfdesktop/Thunar update.

bobzilla,
Thanks for the update!
:hattip:

Glad to be of any help. :) I hope someone will ad some additional info. I haven't tested it throughly. ;)

Btw, gvfs has some dependencies I didn't like. Gnome-mount (HAL), ie, depends on Nautilus (blah...) the recent versions of gdu (udisks) on gtk+3. I haven't yet had time to check what version of gdu was the last to support gtk+2. Thunar-volman uses gvfs for automounting the drives, so unfortunately it also adds a burden of some unwanted deps.

Even more Gnome dependencies? Not good news!
After adding all that Gnome stuff I don't know which is "worst," KDE or Xfce?
:)

It's either gnome-mount (HAL) or gdu (udisks). :) I tried to build gvfs with gdu (2.30.1 works fine with Gtk2), but to na avail. It builds, but seems to require some additional settings. I'll have to reread udisks docs. :) Anyway, everything else works. Tumbler is still PITA, but it generally works.

Gdu is lighter on dependencies but requires udisks. The good thing is it doesn't require Nautilus.

gnome-mount doesn't require nautilus either. Where did you get that crazy idea?

From it's configure script:

Well, you're using 4.8 in Salix. Do you have any useful advice on this? Are you using gnome-mount 0.7 or what?

Edit: I ask about 0.7, because I've tried only 0.8 and that seems to require Nautilus.

Actually, I don't see non-GNOME SLKBUILD for gnome-mount:
ftp://slackware.org.uk/salix/i486/13...mount/SLKBUILD

And it is 0.8.

Well, just to correct myself, it seems Salix still carries 4.6. At least in 13.37. Gvfs support was added in 4.8.

I hope you'll explain where you got the opposite information? ;) I can't find it. Except if it was true for the earlier versions. :)

That's only if you want to build the nautilus extension. Which, since you don't have nautilus installed, you certainly don't need. Use the --disable-nautilus-extension option when running configure.

I have built by own xfce 4.10 packages, which I haven't made public. And I have also built gnome-mount 0.8, and I certainly don't have nautilus installed. Other than GConf and lignome-keyring, which you can easily get on slackware, there is nothing gnome-specific about gnome-mount. Here is the list of dependencies of my gnome-mount 0.8 package:

Haven't tried that, as that option is not documented in the configure help. Thanx. ;)

Well if my supposition on Nautilus dependency was true, it would have a lot of Gnome dependencies effectively making it Gnome dependant. :)