Xfce 4.8 Desktop Environment Released

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Xfce 4.8 Desktop Environment Released

After a pre-releases came in November and then another in December, Xfce 4.8 has been officially released today...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=OTAxOQ

[hax0r]

I upgraded to it from KDE 4.6 RC2, nice speedup and easy on the memory.

[gilboa]

Anyone knows if they finished porting all the addons?

- Gilboa

[FireBurn]

Any chance of a visual overview or some screen shots in your next Xfce article?

Last time I ran Xfce was on an original modded Xbox although I didn't really like the UI

[ethana2]

Any miller columns in Thunar? I have Dolphin installed but it takes a while to start because it has to load a different GUI library and it doesn't feel right in gnome (despite the global menu integration).

[devius]

support for browsing remote shares from the Thunar file manager

Finally! I really like Thunar's simplicity, but without this feature it was just not up to par with the other file managers.

[Tudhalyas]

I've just upgraded my Arch Linux install from Xfce 4.6 to 4.8... what to say, it's slick and blazingly fast -- even faster than 4.6! The support for network shares in Thunar is a more than welcome addition.

[DeepDayze]

Finally! I really like Thunar's simplicity, but without this feature it was just not up to par with the other file managers.

I like Thunar myself, and getting its feature set on a par with other well known file managers without adding unnecessary bloat is a good thing.

[mrugiero]

Anyone knows if they finished porting all the addons?

- Gilboa

If you mean the panel plugins, they didn't, but they look close to finish it.

[gilboa]

Thanks for the head's up.