Xfce 4.12 Desktop Is Moving Along For Release Soon

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Originally Posted by Hamish Wilson

Shame that this probably will not make it into Fedora 19, as those Thunar changes sound awesome. :cool:

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They'll make it in, Fedora 18 will get it too. Fedora does 1 big DE update per release

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Originally Posted by Ericg

They'll make it in, Fedora 18 will get it too. Fedora does 1 big DE update per release

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I don't really think 18 will get it. I've never seen them do major updates on software after a Fedora release.
I'm always open to be proved wrong though. It doesn't really matter to me because I always have my Xfce self-compiled (to stay up to date).

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Originally Posted by uid313

Too bad it didn't transition to GTK3 yet. :(

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They tested it before 4.10 and found out that it would make xfce slower and consume more memory without adding much value so they decided to stick with gtk2 for a while.

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Originally Posted by uid313

Too bad it didn't transition to GTK3 yet. :(

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Why? I don't see any reason for switching. GTK3 is a slower than GTK2, which I find totally unacceptable. New toolkit releases should tend to be faster like it's with Qt 4 -> Qt 5.
So why switching?

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Originally Posted by Nuc!eoN

Why? I don't see any reason for switching. GTK3 is a slower than GTK2, which I find totally unacceptable. New toolkit releases should tend to be faster like it's with Qt 4 -> Qt 5.
So why switching?

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Oh, I didn't know it was slower.
My understanding is GTK3 is much more modern with CSS-like support.
Then it would be nice if everything migrated to GTK3 so we can drop GTK2 instead of run GTK3 and GTK2 side by side.

I <3 my Xfce.

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Originally Posted by Nuc!eoN

Why? I don't see any reason for switching. GTK3 is a slower than GTK2, which I find totally unacceptable. New toolkit releases should tend to be faster like it's with Qt 4 -> Qt 5.

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Qt5 is slower than Qt4 in many cases because support for native graphics system was removed.

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Originally Posted by Ericg

They'll make it in, Fedora 18 will get it too. Fedora does 1 big DE update per release

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Fedora 17 did not ship with Xfce 4.10 even though it was released at a similar time during it's development cycle. What about 4.12 is any different?

Hm, the move to Gtk3 is sad news… It means crappy themes and broken scrollbars :(.
Also Thunar 1.4 is better than 1.6. The new shortcuts pane wastes vertical space and the reload button is in the wrong place (à la Firefox).

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Originally Posted by stqn

Hm, the move to Gtk3 is sad news… It means crappy themes and broken scrollbars :(.

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GTK 3 has lots of great themes.
Such as Greybird, Zukini, Zukitwo, eGTK (elementary), etc.