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Xfce Backports?

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Magnusmaster
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Re: Xfce Backports?

#21 Post by Magnusmaster »

Which panel applets have issues in 4.10? The maintainer said that 4.10 won't be in unstable until after the freeze, so I'm thinking about installing 4.10 from experimental.

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Re: Xfce Backports?

#22 Post by elav »

Magnusmaster wrote:Which panel applets have issues in 4.10? The maintainer said that 4.10 won't be in unstable until after the freeze, so I'm thinking about installing 4.10 from experimental.
xfce4-places-plugin
xfce4-clipman-plugin
url: blog.desdelinux.net

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Re: Xfce Backports?

#23 Post by gradinaruvasile »

If i remember correctly no panel plugins except the built in ones were working when 4.10 arrived in experimental.
I compiled those plugins from source and they work.

I had absolutely no issues with Xfce 4.10 and i use it even before it got in experimental (i compiled from source the whole thing back then). Stable as a rock.

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Re: Xfce Backports?

#24 Post by sportscrazed2 »

The only real feature change I saw in 4.10 was the ability for tiling in xfwm4. I just installed xfwm4 from an experimental repo on wheezy and everything seems fine. Other than that the difference appears minor imo. And I used arch with 4.10 for the last few months before wanting something a little less cutting edge. I can't really see any major differences.

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Re: Xfce Backports?

#25 Post by gradinaruvasile »

Xfce 4.10 changes:
http://xfce.org/about/tour

There is a mime editor, finally there are thumbnails on the desktop, mouse and touchpad settings etc. Also there are many bugfixes.

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Re: Xfce Backports?

#26 Post by sportscrazed2 »

Never even heard of a mime editor until just now :wink: , thumbnails on the desktop are nice but i personally don't use any desktop icons, and bug fixes are nice but i haven't noticed any bugs yet :wink:. All in all I'm quite happy with 4.8 and a manually upgraded xfwm4. But others might not be to each their own. Just saying that I don't anything from 4.10. But it's a huge improvement over 4.6 imo which wouldn't even let me put a panel on my secondary monitor

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