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Xfce Getting a New Version Soon
jones_supa writes It looks like the release of Xfce 4.12 is finally about to materialize. It has been about two and half years since the last stable release. There is now a concerted effort underway to ship a new release of this lightweight GTK+2 desktop environment out around the end of February or early March. "As we have discussed the status and progress of core components with many of you individually, we feel confident that the state of Xfce is good enough to polish some final edges and push more translations until then," wrote Simon Steinbeiß on the xfce4-dev mailing list. The official list of showstopper bugs does not look too bad either. However, looking at the long time between releases certainly makes one think if the project could have use for some extra resources.
All you have to do is not suck. Just don't completely fuck this up like gnome and ubuntu did and you'll be fine.
A bullet may have your name on it but splash damage is addressed "To whom it may concern."
That design change from Gedit has nothing to do with GTK 3, except that it relies on things added in GTK 3. Take a look at Gedit 3.0 to 3.10 and you'll find pretty much a GTK 3 version of Gedit 2.
Why? Why in the ever living fuck did they rape their applications this way? You really have to wonder exactly what type of person the Gnome project is trying to attract with "features" like this. With all their focus on "minimizing distrations," it is safe to conclude they seek to increase market share among the retarded.
I see XFCE every time I boot up my computer. They seem to be the only Linux desktop willing to maintain a working relationship with sanity.
to be fair, Win95 is a pinnacle when you put Gnome3 and KDE4 in the same room with them.
Wish qvwm continued.
I have seen several KDE and GNOME desktops. I have come across zero XFCE installations!
I use XFCE and have for several years. I believe the Supreme Penguin uses it too. There are lots of people that use it but I will admit it is not as popular as the big two.
Another thing that linux has lost over the years is the truly breathtaking desktops we used to have. I remember when if you wanted a gui for your linux box you had to roll your own. You had a frame work to work with but every ones desktop was truly there own creation at the end of the day.
Enlightenment. There was a truly breath taking windows manager. Window maker, and good old xfvm2. I know they are still alive but only on life support.
Best reason to use XFCE? It's not gnome or kde.
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XFCE is seeing a resurgence now the gnome screwed the pooch and insists on depending on systemd.
That is the value of XFCE!!! They're not pushing a new paradigm onto unsuspecting users. Will a new version release "really matter?" No, never. Thank goodness for that! Users of something like XFCE don't want a new paradigm, they want shit that worked already to keep working, and they want the new shit to integrate with the old shit so people using the old shit can keep using it in exactly the same way that they used it before.
You came across zero XFCE as an end-user supporting end-user "desktops," that is normal. XFCE is heavily used, but by more technical people who want to make their own technical choices, and have their software respect those choices.
As a software developer, of course I encounter other XFCE users all the time. No, we don't care what you think of our choices. No, we're not asking you to run XFCE. If you don't already care about XFCE, or have a theory as to why you should care... please, don't care. It doesn't help us in any way.