XFCE Adds Icons, Switches to Thunar in v4.4

Posted by timothy on Monday January 22, 2007 @02:17AM from the longtime-companion dept.

b100dian points out yesterday's release of XFCE 4.4, writing "If you have already followed the release candidates, you know that XFCE is really evolving. Besides adding desktop icons, introducing Thunar (in lieu of xffm) and MousePad, applications that are as simple as they are effective, and Terminal, which has built-in support for desktop composition (supported by the window manager out-of-the-box), it also introduced (finally!) a shortcut for the pop-up menu (you can see in the tour that Ctrl-Esc is bound to this menu). Congratulations for the lightest and slickest window manager ever:)" I've been using Thunar a lot lately (mostly under Gnome) because the renaming feature is powerful but reasonably intuitive -- very handy for cleaning up digicam photo names.

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Biased Drivel by Imexius · 2007-01-22 03:15 · Score: -1, Redundant

Congratulations for the lightest and slickest window manager ever
What a load of biased drivel! After considering such window managers as wmaker, Fluxbox, Icewm and slew of others I haven't mentions; Xfce doesn't even come close to being the "lightest". Granted, Xfce is light compared to GNOME/KDE but come on people lets be a tad bit more objective.

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Slickest what? by Eric+Pierce · 2007-01-22 04:24 · Score: 0, Redundant

"Congratulations for the lightest and slickest window manager ever"

But it's a Desktop Environment, Spock, it's a ... Desktop Environment!