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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.
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.
XFCE is seeing a resurgence now the gnome screwed the pooch and insists on depending on systemd.