Xfce 4.12 Released After Nearly Three Years Of Work

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Xfce 4.12 Released After Nearly Three Years Of Work

Xfce 4.12 has finally been released!..

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag...-4.12-Released

[Awesomeness]

Nothing is exciting about those tiny features, especially not for three years of development.

[not.sure]

Nothing is exciting about those tiny features, especially not for three years of development.

If you want 'exciting', you've come to the wrong place.

[cocklover]

Nothing is exciting about those tiny features, especially not for three years of development.

Yes I agree with that. The development is slow and there is nothing new, mostly bugfixes, and those bugfixes should come as regular updates. NOT as a mayor version update after 3 years...

We have the case of KDE 4.11 which have 2 years of extended "support", but the funny thing is that opensuse 13.1 and mageia 4 have NOT updated the 4.11 to the latest (4.11.9 I believe).

[zanny]

We have the case of KDE 4.11 which have 2 years of extended "support", but the funny thing is that opensuse 13.1 and mageia 4 have NOT updated the 4.11 to the latest (4.11.9 I believe).

Maybe they are just going to 4.14 in their next release and LTSing that until KDE5 is well baked?

[Steve DL]

Yes I agree with that. The development is slow and there is nothing new, mostly bugfixes, and those bugfixes should come as regular updates. NOT as a mayor version update after 3 years...

We have the case of KDE 4.11 which have 2 years of extended "support", but the funny thing is that opensuse 13.1 and mageia 4 have NOT updated the 4.11 to the latest (4.11.9 I believe).

http://xfce.rhaalovely.net/download/changelogs/4.12

[Steve DL]

Are we going to have to wait another 3 years to see 4.14?

No, you won't.

[ihatemichael]

No, you won't.

What do you mean? Can you elaborate?

[Steve DL]

What do you mean? Can you elaborate?

Xfce 4.14 will be a code cleanup release only (unless 4.12 which was bugfix + features + ux + a healthy dose of procrastination). Some of the hard work to get GTK+3 compatibility has allegedly been done, (e.g. panel plugin support and libxfce4ui building, just has a few widgets that need editing by now). The only bit that should actually be difficult is Thunar, the rest should be relatively straightforward.

So, I'd say 6-12 months (hard to predict...), but not 3 years.

[Awesomeness]

So, I'd say 6-12 months (hard to predict...), but not 3 years.

Don't be funny. It's more likely this is the last Xfce release ever.