Xfce 4.12 Desktop Is Moving Along For Release Soon

[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]

How slower?

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

[bachinchi]

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

How slower?

[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?

[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!

[DanL]

The new shortcuts pane wastes vertical space and the reload button is in the wrong place (? 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.

[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).

[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]

Hm, the move to Gtk3 is sad news? It means crappy themes and broken scrollbars .

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

[stqn]

Hm, the move to Gtk3 is sad news? It means crappy themes and broken scrollbars .
Also Thunar 1.4 is better than 1.6. The new shortcuts pane wastes vertical space and the reload button is in the wrong place (? la Firefox).