Xfce 4.8
Hi everyone, the first release of XFCE is out there.
You can read the announcement here. Has anyone tried to build this. |
Looks interesting, but I'll only check it out after is has been released (Jan/11). :)
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Read about this a couple days ago. Sounds like a lot of nice new changes apart from still not having a native menu editor again :(
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Thanks. I'm looking forward to 4.8 when it hits -current in the future. Good news indeed. :)
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XFCE used to be seen as a lightweight alternative to gnome, but they're increasingly using gnome components: glib, and now gio, Is there really much difference left between them and the basic gnome environment any more?
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There's also the fact that XFCE doesn't suck quite as bad as gnome does... although it's close. Can't change your default file manager, WTF...
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I think I'll let Robby work out all of the Slackware specific issues before I try it out.
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I am actually in the process of building it for my laptop. If I happen to get it done before someone else does I'll post back. This is my first attempt at really building something this big for Slackware, so it's taking me a bit longer than I expected but I am definitely learning a lot.
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I'm currently running the 4.8 prerelease stuff, and it's all quite nice. The main drawback is that there are a *lot* of new deps required, and quite a few of them are a bit intrusive - enough so that it's going to be a new adventure in keeping my tradition of releasing packages for it :/
Once the next set of updates hit the -current tree, I'll have more of the prerequisites for all of this in place, so at that point, I'll look into packaging up some stuff for folks to try. Until then, you'll just have to be patient :) |
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How is it going to work with PolicyKit? Are we gonna have to patch Xfce or is polkit going to be added?
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