Xfce. Anything New?

sahko · 05-22-2010, 10:05 AM

Yeah using it already since yesterday.
Although i havent seen the changelogs, the bugs i had before are available even in 4.6.2.
AFAIK this release has mostly build fixes for latest libpng, gtk+2 etc and translations.

FWIW rworkman said that its probably too late to make it to 13.1 but i hope he's wrong.

mlpa · 05-22-2010, 12:15 PM

I know that testing, and including something now in slackware will take a lot of time to release 13.1, but a lot of people use XFCE so I think we can wait a litter longer.

Ilgar · 05-22-2010, 12:33 PM

As an XFCE user I'd happily (though impatiently) wait for 13.1 a little more if XFCE would make it into the release. Since it is a minor upgrade I'm optimistic about the inclusion.

gargamel · 05-22-2010, 05:48 PM

Decision is up to Pat and his crew, but even as a KDE user I think it would be worth the wait.
But I'd not support any suggestion to wait for 4.8, BTW.

gargamel

sahko · 05-22-2010, 06:49 PM

I dont think it would be much to add to 13.1 even now.

Quote:

Originally Posted by XFCE 4.6.2 Announement

Release notes for 4.6.2
=======================

It look a while, but the second bug fix release of Xfce 4.6 is finally
available. Most critical bug fixes already found their way out in
standalone releases, so apart from an annoying bug in the Thunar details
view and a bunch of fixes in Xfwm4 and Xfdesktop there is nothing mayor
in this release.

However the quality of the translations significantly improved since we
switched to Transifex (http://translations.xfce.org), so thanks to all
the translators who contributed to this.

You can find all the changes in this release here:

http://mocha.xfce.org/documentation/changelogs/4.6.2

Regards,
The Xfce development team

andrew.46 · 05-25-2010, 06:09 PM

Looks like rworkman has done the magic as usual:

http://rlworkman.net/pkgs/13.1/i486/
http://rlworkman.net/pkgs/13.1/x86_64/

This will be my first port of call when I install 13.1

.

Andrew

cwizardone · 05-26-2010, 08:31 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by andrew.46

Looks like rworkman has done the magic as usual:

http://rlworkman.net/pkgs/13.1/i486/
http://rlworkman.net/pkgs/13.1/x86_64/

This will be my first port of call when I install 13.1

.

Andrew

Yes he has and it works quite well, of course.

Thank you, Mr. Workman!

I do have a question. I also downloaded the various plug-ins, but when when I went to "upgradepkg" a message came back that each one was being skipped as they were already installed. So, were the plug-ins simply repackaged with the .txz compression method?
Thanks.

sahko · 05-26-2010, 09:46 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cwizardone

Yes he has and it works quite well, of course.

Thank you, Mr. Workman!

I do have a question. I also downloaded the various plug-ins, but when when I went to "upgradepkg" a message came back that each one was being skipped as they were already installed. So, were the plug-ins simply repackaged with the .txz compression method?
Thanks.

And possibly rebuilt against the new xfce. Not that it matters though they work fine anyway.

rworkman · 05-26-2010, 10:16 AM

If you had them already installed, and you upgraded from 13.0, then some may not get upgraded - this is one area where I could do a better job with my package repo. Basically, I rebuild everything for each Slackware release, so right now, everything has BUILD=1_rlw. Since you have BUILD=1_rlw from the 13.0 repo, and the version of the plugin hasn't changed, upgradepkg detects the package to be already installed and thus doesn't touch it. Probably you want to do "upgradepkg --reinstall" instead :-)