Xfce 4.10 Desktop Feature Release

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Xfce 4.10 Desktop Feature Release

The Xfce project on Saturday afternoon released Xfce 4.10 as the first major Xfce desktop feature release in about sixteen months...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTA5Mzc

[asdx]

Congrats for the release.

Have their ported Xfce to GTK+ 3 yet?

[schmidtbag]

damn 16 months? lxde updates more frequently than that and its a much smaller project. but, i think i'd still be interested in trying xfce after not trying it for maybe 3 years.

[mrugiero]

damn 16 months? lxde updates more frequently than that and its a much smaller project. but, i think i'd still be interested in trying xfce after not trying it for maybe 3 years.

Crap, I follow both git repos, and LXDE doesn't get a meaningful commit (with meaningful I mean anything but translations) in months, while several subprojects of XFCE get them in a daily basis.
How many new features did LXDE commited last year? The only one I can think of is getting back the tree view in PCManFM.
Also, LXDE didn't achieve even their first stable release.
I love both projects for different reasons, though.
I admit Thunar is pretty basic, I don't use it because of the lack of tabs, for example, and use PCManFM instead.

[Imouto]

Congrats for the release.

Have their ported Xfce to GTK+ 3 yet?

Yes they did it in 4.10.

[Chewi]

Yes they did it in 4.10.

No, that's happening in 4.12... I think.

[AnonymousCoward]

they have support for gtk3 now iirc.
the themes and the gtk-xfce4-enginge have been ported, but i think that the xfce applications are still useing gtk2.

[mlux]

XFCE gets more and more awesome. In contrast to the gnome team they actually respect wishes from their users. Seen long term I think XFCE has the potential to get most gnome users to switch.

[Awesomeness]

they have support for gtk3 now iirc.
the themes and the gtk-xfce4-enginge have been ported, but i think that the xfce applications are still useing gtk2.

So? The KDE dudes also have GTK2 and GTK3 versions of their Oxygen widget themes. The question was, however, if Xfce was ported to GTK3 and the answer is no.

XFCE gets more and more awesome. In contrast to the gnome team they actually respect wishes from their users. Seen long term I think XFCE has the potential to get most gnome users to switch.

No GNOME user with half a brain would ever switch to an environment that never ever has bugfix releases. Roughly once a year there is a feature release and in between not a single bugfix is released to its users whereas in GNOME and KDE land users get monthly bugfix releases until six months later a new feature release is made (in contrast to Xfce’s 18 months).
And why would a happy GNOME 2 user switch to a DE that after years is still playing catchup with GNOME 2? Xfce 4.0 was released in 2003 and moved from a CDE clone to a GNOME 2 clone. Cinnamon manages to do new releases way quicker. I expect GNOME 2 fans to either adapt to GNOME 3 switch to Cinnamon, Unity or Plasma Desktop.

[gilboa]

Yes they did it in 4.10.

gtk 3.0 is planned for 4.12. [1]

- Gilboa
[1] http://mail.xfce.org/pipermail/xfce4...er/029342.html