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Xfce 4.8 Released

Posted by timothy on from the when-snappy-matters dept.

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."

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  1. VFS eh? by Erik+Fish · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

    1. Re:VFS eh? by countertrolling · · Score: 5, Funny

      All I ask is that ThunarVFS not suck.

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

      --
      For justice, we must go to Don Corleone