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Xfce 4.12 Released After Nearly Three Years Of Work
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Nothing is exciting about those tiny features, especially not for three years of development.
Yes I agree with that. The development is slow and there is nothing new, mostly bugfixes, and those bugfixes should come as regular updates. NOT as a mayor version update after 3 years...
We have the case of KDE 4.11 which have 2 years of extended "support", but the funny thing is that opensuse 13.1 and mageia 4 have NOT updated the 4.11 to the latest (4.11.9 I believe).
Last edited by cocklover; 28 February 2015, 08:32 PM.
We have the case of KDE 4.11 which have 2 years of extended "support", but the funny thing is that opensuse 13.1 and mageia 4 have NOT updated the 4.11 to the latest (4.11.9 I believe).
Maybe they are just going to 4.14 in their next release and LTSing that until KDE5 is well baked?
Yes I agree with that. The development is slow and there is nothing new, mostly bugfixes, and those bugfixes should come as regular updates. NOT as a mayor version update after 3 years...
We have the case of KDE 4.11 which have 2 years of extended "support", but the funny thing is that opensuse 13.1 and mageia 4 have NOT updated the 4.11 to the latest (4.11.9 I believe).
Xfce 4.14 will be a code cleanup release only (unless 4.12 which was bugfix + features + ux + a healthy dose of procrastination). Some of the hard work to get GTK+3 compatibility has allegedly been done, (e.g. panel plugin support and libxfce4ui building, just has a few widgets that need editing by now). The only bit that should actually be difficult is Thunar, the rest should be relatively straightforward.
So, I'd say 6-12 months (hard to predict...), but not 3 years.
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