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Slackware 14.1 ships XFCE 4.10 (and same 4.8 components).
There is no official XFCE 4.12, but several components were updated to version 4.11.
Here you can find build scripts for the latest XFCE packages.
It is based on the Patrick Volkerding's build scripts, with only minor bugs corrections and a extra dependency (libUnique).
I tested the packages in my laptop, the only issue is some menu icons are missing.
Feel free to test and report any issues, fixes, etc.
PulseAudio isn't required for xfce4-mixer. It does require the gst-plugins-base-0.10.xx package but gst-plugins-base requires alsa-libs so you're safe.
Did anyone tried to build the new version of XFCE?
Any issues that need to be taken into account?
Thanks for putting this together. Everything builds and runs fine for me on slackware current. The only issue is that a few menu icons are missing, as you noted. Any ideas on this?
Thanks for putting this together. Everything builds and runs fine for me on slackware current. The only issue is that a few menu icons are missing, as you noted. Any ideas on this?
I think the solution may be that the patches in xfce4-settings.SlackBuild are still needed. The first patch can be made to apply with --fuzz=3, the second patch applies without any changes.
Not related to the above issue, there are some important bugfixes in libwnck-2.31.0 that benefit XFCE (in fact, XFCE is the only significant customer for libwnck). Also, Arch has a patch for xfce4-weather-plugin.
I think the solution may be that the patches in xfce4-settings.SlackBuild are still needed. The first patch can be made to apply with --fuzz=3, the second patch applies without any changes.
Not related to the above issue, there are some important bugfixes in libwnck-2.31.0 that benefit XFCE (in fact, XFCE is the only significant customer for libwnck). Also, Arch has a patch for xfce4-weather-plugin.
As suggested (thanks @55020) the patches for xfce4-settings were added.
Also added the libwnck-2.31.0 to the build path.
Can you indicate me the arch patch, so I can it also to the build?
I found out a patch that fix the missing icons problem, more info here.
This patch was added to the build.
However, there is another issue.
The application menu (mouse right click) and the menu from the task bar are different, it appears to be a known bug.
Does anyone else have this issue?
Last edited by mlpa; 06-30-2014 at 01:00 PM.
Reason: Fix missing icons
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