Xfce 4.8 Released

PerlDudeXL writes "Today, after almost two years of work, we have the special pleasure of announcing the much awaited release of Xfce 4.8, the new stable version that supersedes Xfce 4.6. [..] Xfce 4.8 is our attempt to update the Xfce code base to all the new desktop frameworks that were introduced in the past few years. We hope that our efforts to drop pieces like ThunarVFS and HAL with GIO, udev, ConsoleKit and PolicyKit will help bringing the Xfce desktop to modern distributions."

Comments

VFS eh?

[Erik Fish]

All I ask is that ThunarVFS not suck.

One of the main reasons I don't use GNOME anymore is because GnomeVFS was such a godawful piece of shit for years and years, with nobody seeming particularly concerned about it.

I would be all "Hey, I'll use the GUI to copy these files from one drive to another" and GnomeVFS would be all "Sure thing! I'll have that done sometime after the heat death of the universe!"

Don't even get me started on the SMB performance.

Re:VFS eh?

[countertrolling]

All I ask is that ThunarVFS not suck.

Don't worry. It'll be like it's not even there

Re:What functionality are we BSD users ...

[macshit]

I will tell you what can be done to fix this issue:
...blah blah blah...

good luck with that.

Re:Making it just as heavy as Gnome and KDE now?

[Dcnjoe60]

tom@muon:~$ hammer

hammer: command not found

tom@muon:~$ wrench

wrench: command not found

tom@muon:~$ screwdriver

screwdriver: command not found

tom@muon:~$ tweezers

tweezers: command not found

Obviously your system administrator doesn't trust you using such powerful tools and has removed access to them for your account. :)