Remarks on Xfce4

[Jack Coates]

On Sun, 2003-09-07 at 06:19, Olivier Fourdan wrote:
...
> You state that xfce4 is VERY early in the development? Oh, come on, it's
> been under development for almost 2 years!
> 
> > That said, I do think 4 is progressing very nicely. 3 is the best wm
> > out and it's only a matter of time until 4 fills that space.
> 
> Or maybe you might want learn to actually use xfce4...
> 
> Cheers,

My, Olivier bites back :-)

I whinged quite a bit about the changes in 4, and finally switched to
RC1 because of the repeated statements from Olivier & crew that support
for 3 was completely kaput.

I'm still on RC1 -- it's solid and fast, the UI changes took very little
time to adjust to, and many little annoyances from 3 are fixed
(particularly icon handling). The virtual desktop applet is such a nice
improvement, it actually has me using the virtual desktops, which I had
avoided in the past because I'd keep forgetting that I had apps open on
desk two and three.

BTW, looking at the Mandrake Club votes page, both versions of XFce are
on the front page: 3.8.18 with 76 votes and 4 with 49 votes. 3.8.18 is
in the cooker tree and will ship with 9.2 in a few weeks.

So thanks again for the excellent work
-- 
Jack Coates
Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture...