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Xfce 4.2.0 Released

Posted by michael on from the give-in-to-the-power-of-KDE dept.

kelnos copies and pastes: "The Xfce Team is pleased to announce the availability of Xfce 4.2.0, the next major version of the Xfce Desktop Environment and Development Framework for Unix and Unix-like platforms. Xfce 4.2.0 can be downloaded here. Xfce 4.2.0 includes new applications like a session manager and an application finder, a new and beautiful icon theme, support for bleeding-edge features (like the X.org Composite extension), usability and performance improvements, better support for multihead desktops, new and updated translations, additional themes, and various other improvements over the previous stable releases. See this page for a complete list of changes between Xfce 4.0 and Xfce 4.2. Furthermore, Xfce 4.2 is the first desktop environment to ship with an easy-to-use and platform-independent graphical installation wizard, which takes care of compiling and installing Xfce on your system. Visit the os-cillation installers website for download links and instructions. If you want to try Xfce 4.2.0 first, without installing anything on your system, you might want to try the Xfce Live Demo 0.2, provided by os-cillation, to discover the power and efficiency of Xfce."

4 of 275 comments (clear)

  1. The official WM of the GNAA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    The Gay Niggers Association of America is pleased to announce that XFCE 4.2 will be it's official window manager for 2005.

  2. Re:How lightweight, if it requires gtk+? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Mac users are stupid. The end.

  3. Screenshots by northcat · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    After looking at the screenshots, Xfce very remotely resembles OS X. Why hasn't Apple sued Xfce to destruction yet?

  4. and yet, it STILL doesn't... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    ...support SOUND EVENTS.

    Xfce is a neat little DE, but when they left the 3.8 series behind, they DROPPED sound support.

    It's VERY frustrating to have the nice new eye-candy and added functionality of the 4.x series, but to have LOST SOUND EVENTS.

    In summation: sound event support still missing? Wake me when it gets replaced.

    Until then, I'll be using the OTHER extremely light WM that has sound event support.