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.

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bobzilla,
Thanks for the update!

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.

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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.