Xfce 4.16 To Drop GTK2 Support, Explore Some Client-Side Decorations
After the much belated Xfce 4.14 release, the developers are working hard to release about one year from now while ultimately striving to get on a six-month release cadence.
With the expedited Xfce 4.16 release compared to 4.14, they are already talking about the feature plans:
GTK2 support was left intact, but that is being nuked now for this next release.
- For Xfce 4.16 they seek to "harmonize the appearance of certain elements that either became inconsistent through the [GTK3] port or already were inconsistent before."
- Investigating client-side decorations where it makes sense, but don't expect any radical changes or complete overhaul of CSD support for the 4.16 cycle.
- Many smaller improvements to the Thunar file manager.
- The new dark mode option for the Xfce Panel.
- Support for scaled mirror mode and other new settings.
- Likely adding a night light mode to the Xfce power manager.
- Other smaller changes.
More details on Simon's blog.
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