Xfce 4.10 Desktop Feature Release

[gilboa]

It's moving to gtk3, and still claims to be light? Not that it wasn't already bloated for several years, but only getting worse.

Please post a link to benchmark that proves that gtk 3.0 is slower / more bloated than gtk 2.0 (or stop spreading mindless FUD).

- Gilboa

[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

[curaga]

It's moving to gtk3, and still claims to be light? Not that it wasn't already bloated for several years, but only getting worse.

[Silverthorn]

All of a sudden I feel compelled to start compiling my own version instead of using the outdated version supplied by Ubuntu.

[Artemis3]

Excellent!

I switched to XFCE last year and its been wonderful; i'm already using a single vertical panel and it works nicely in 4.8; with these improvements i can play with it even more .

XFCE is solid, light and reliable, and i like it far more than gnome2.

Its also a plus that they don't seem to have any plans for radically changing the "desktop experience". More distros should take a hint and default to this desktop environment instead.

[who_me]

I really hope they fixed thunar. It displays "eject buttons" for all volumes and it also shows them on the desktop even if they are not mounted. It's really annoying. There's a bug submitted for this since 2010. Ugh.

[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.

[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.

[Chewi]

Yes they did it in 4.10.

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

[Imouto]

Congrats for the release.

Have their ported Xfce to GTK+ 3 yet?

Yes they did it in 4.10.