Xfce 4.12 Desktop Is Moving Along For Release Soon

[Hamish Wilson]

I must admit many GTK3 applications are looking a bit odd for me at the moment when using other non-Gnome DEs.

[uid313]

I must admit many GTK3 applications are looking a bit odd for me at the moment when using other non-Gnome DEs.

Yes, I know!
That sucks!
It is because GNOME are dumbing them down with the GMenu (GNOME Menu).

[DanL]

The new shortcuts pane wastes vertical space and the reload button is in the wrong place (à la Firefox).

I prefer to use the tree view in the shortcuts pane so it doesn't waste space. I use pathbar style, so the reload button thing doesn't concern me, though I can see why it might annoy some people.

As for gtk3 theming, I prefer dark themes (white text on black), and the closest thing I've found is a theme called xfce-dusk-gtk3, but it hasn't been updated in a year. gtk3 theming standards have changed a bit since then, so I get some visual anomalies and a bunch of warnings in the terminal.

[brosis]

I'm using Thunar 1.6.2 now and editing multuple file properties is cool because I can do basic audio tagging easier.

Thanks for heads-up, this is the only problem I had with XFCE, its so good they fixed it!

[stqn]

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

Maybe but I’ve had trouble finding a good working dark (bright text on dark bg) theme. And finding one that is available for both Gtk2 and Gtk3…

[bachinchi]

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

How slower?

[JS987]

How slower?

qtperf is 2/6 times slower on my current/previous machine with raster graphics system which is only system supported by Qt5.

[Nuc!eoN]

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

What do you mean by native graphics system? Why has it been removed?

[JS987]

What do you mean by native graphics system? Why has it been removed?

Qt4 supports 3 graphics systems (backends): native, raster, opengl
which can be changed when application is started.
Qt5 supports only raster. Native was probably removed because it isn't platform independent and they don't want to fix Linux specific bugs.

[gilboa]

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?

The XFCE Fedora maintainer created a personal repository (using the Fedora infrastructure) w/ fully updated XFCE 4.10 for both Fedora 16 and Fedora 17.
http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/kevin/xfce-4.10/

Simply drop the fedora-xfce.repo file in /etc/yum.repo.d and you're done.

- Gilboa