Xfce 4.14 Sees Its Long-Awaited Pre-Release

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Xfce 4.14 Sees Its Long-Awaited Pre-Release

The GTK3-ported Xfce 4.14 might see its long-awaited official release in the near future. In preparing for a hopeful August debut, the Xfce 4.14 pre-release is now available...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Xfce-4.14-Pre-Release

[tildearrow]

debianxfce, got anything to say?

[stormcrow]

Vblank & colord support: Yes, please, and thank you! Those two things are why I ended up leaving XFCE to my lower end older laptop(s) and switched to KDE/Plasma on my newer hardware.

[boxie]

*ah hem* If only XFCE were as good as KDE... this xfce dinosaur is moving so slowly, it's acting like a tar pit for all the users that don't know any better!

(Please Note: This is a solid tongue-in-cheek shit post)

[tildearrow]

Vblank: Yes, please, and thank you! That is why I ended up leaving XFCE to my lower end older laptop(s) and switched to KDE/Plasma on my newer hardware.

High latency

Hereby I introduce xfwm4-lowlatency, which consists of the following:
Add the following in src/compositor.c after line 1649 for lower latency:

   glFinish();

(does not work on Intel...)

[awesz]

Sad to see many horrid GNOME concepts like switches and popovers being adopted. Off we go to LXQt.

[Baguy]

High latency


Add the following in src/compositor.c after line 1649 for lower latency:

glFinish();

(does not work on Intel...)

It honestly feels smoother than most desktops even if there is latency. Kwin-lowlatency helps make plasma feel similar, but i don't think it's quite as smooth as XFCE. (saying this as a plasma fan) ... That said, it could just be a sugar pill, as XFCE was one of the first Linux desktops i viewed as a favorite.

[Templar82]

do not even have a freely configurable whisker menu.

Genuine question, what can XFCE do here that KDE cannot?

[boxie]

KDE is buggy, never ready, slow, made by wannabee windows programmers and do not even have a freely configurable whisker menu.

Oh Hai - There's a bite!
xfce is bad because it doen't even have a configurable Application Launcher -or- a configurable latte dock (see what I did there with app names?)

and, to be fair, as an xfce user you would have to be quite accustomed to "never ready" software by now :P

That is what gnome3 and kde do, makes you mad and posting shit.

I'll add xfce to that list as well

[Templar82]

As you see the kde menu is tree like, not freely configurable, no category hovering with the mouse.

The "favorites" down the left are configurable same as XFCE? the only difference i see is XFCE shows the full title rather than the icon.

Do you have a screenshot of your setup?