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Xfce Getting a New Version Soon

Posted by timothy on from the welcome-eye-candy dept.

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.

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  1. Re:I don't think this [release] matters at all... by danbuter · · Score: 4, Interesting

    XFCE is way better than Gnome or KDE for home use, in my opinion. Others may not agree. It has been in limbo for a while, so hearing that it is finally getting an update is great news.

  2. Re:I don't think this [release] matters at all... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Perhaps these schools used old distros which still shipped Gnome 2. After the Gnome 3 debacle pretty much everyone except perhaps a couple of Red Hat employees switched to Xfce. It's now more or less the standard Linux desktop, so yes it will matter.

  3. Re:One pixel wide window borders by Lord+Apathy · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Xfce is for people that want a professional looking desktop that doesn't get in the way of getting real work done. A desktop that does it job and doesn't get in the way or consume to many resources that could best be dedicated to real work.

    If you don't like the way XFCE you can change it. My desktop at one point did look like windows 95 then I changed it. Now it looks like a modern version of CDE. The other day I was playing with some settings and icons and I could make XFCE look like a modern mac desktop.

    So yeah, its like anything else. You only get into it what you put out of it.

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  4. Re:I don't think this [release] matters at all... by nctritech · · Score: 3, Interesting

    For those of us who prefer to roll our own distros or compile stuff ourselves, XFCE is far easier to build from scratch than any GNOME or KDE4 environment. The dependencies on libraries not shipped in XFCE directly are minimal and there aren't many snags to worry about.

  5. Re:I don't think this [release] matters at all... by dskoll · · Score: 5, Interesting

    My company has standardized on XFCE. When Debian switched to GNOME 3, my users revolted so I switched them to XFCE.