Future of XFce3

[Jasper Huijsmans]

Well, this mostly depends on whether someone steps up and volunteers to
do it. It would be nice and useful to people with older/slower systems.

	Jasper


On Sun, 1 Jun 2003 10:33:29 +0530
Biju Chacko <biju_chacko at vsnl.net> wrote:

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> What is planned for XFce3 after XFce4 release? Personally, I think it
> is a fine bit of code and probably has a lot of utility left in it.
> 
> Certainly, I would say that it's CDE emulation is a lot better than
> 4's. CDE emulation is not a high priority for XFce4.
> 
> So I would not like XFce3 to be put into deprecated/obsolete status.
> So, if it's ok with Olivier, I'd like to suggest that somebody take up
> maintainership of XFce3.
> 
> After that, it could go into maintainence-only mode or new development
> as the maintainer chooses.
> 
> This comes into focus with the recent report of a bug on FreeBSD 5.0.
> 
> I think a decision on this needs to be taken ASAP, before bitrot
> begins to set in to the XFce3 codebase.
> 
> Any comments?
> 
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