Xfce 4.12 Desktop Release Ends Up Behind Schedule

[ArtKun]

No.
Bad.
Don't do that.

Last i looked at Xubuntu it was Xfce after Canonical had severely beaten it with the bloat stick.

I have no idea what you are talking about. I don't like *buntu at all, but Xubuntu is definitely the best "out-of-the-box" Xfce Linux distro.

[korrode]

xubuntu

No.
Bad.
Don't do that.

Last i looked at Xubuntu it was Xfce after Canonical had severely beaten it with the bloat stick.

[gilboa]

gtk3 is useless if it doesn't keep backward compatibility between minor releases like 3.4 and 3.6
http://www.linuxuser.co.uk/opinion/a...spiracy-theory

I've got a fairly large python application that uses Gtk-3 via PyGI and I can say that I had any issues moving from say, Fedora 15 to Fedora 18.
Granted, its not a big application and some of the underlining changes might be handled by PyGI, but I at least in my experience, Gtk-3 is far from being useless.

BTW, my actual desktops either run XFCE 4.10 or KDE 4.10.

- Gilboa

[gilboa]

Standard response. No, it was a suggestion not an order for anyone to do anything lol. Besides, it's probably easier to just stick with a gtk2+ distro then.

For now, people who really dislike Gtk-2 can stick to LTS distro's such as RHEL/CentOS or Ubuntu LTS.
But in the long term, using an old toolkit with zero support and possible security vulnerabilities that no-one will ever fix is a very bad idea.

- Gilboa

[JS987]

Just what the linux desktop needs right now is more toolkit fragmentation. gtk3 may have its problems, but forking gtk2 would be even worse.

gtk3 is useless if it doesn't keep backward compatibility between minor releases like 3.4 and 3.6

http://www.linuxuser.co.uk/opinion/a-linux-conspiracy-theory

[Rexilion]

Just what the linux desktop needs right now is more toolkit fragmentation. gtk3 may have its problems, but forking gtk2 would be even worse.

Yes, and the other 50% of the Linux crowd claims that: choice is good!. Well, here it is! Look at the display servers: X, Mir and Wayland. Toolkits GTK3+, QT, Enlightenment etc. Look at the office suites. Multimedia applications. But most of all, look at the huge amount of different distro's.

If people want to 'waste' time on fragmentation then let them be. If it works really well, the project will become important. If it's not important to everyone else but you, you are free to maintain it.

[bwat47]

Time to fork GTK+2 then .

Just what the linux desktop needs right now is more toolkit fragmentation. gtk3 may have its problems, but forking gtk2 would be even worse.

[Rexilion]

I assume that you're volunteering?

Standard response. No, it was a suggestion not an order for anyone to do anything lol. Besides, it's probably easier to just stick with a gtk2+ distro then.

[gilboa]

Time to fork GTK+2 then .

I assume that you're volunteering?

[Rexilion]

Time to fork GTK+2 then .