Thanks for xfce3

[roger]

Hi,

Yes Xfce3 is a nice piece of software. Actually that's my desktop on my 
Cygwin/MS-Windows system (wasn't trivial to install, though!).

Xfce4 is better on many aspects, such as its easiness of configuration and the 
availability of panel-docked plugins.

Unfortunately Xfce4 lacks the ability of iconizing applications on the 
desktop. I hope too - Don't get me wrong here since we are not talking about 
remunerated developers - that this feature will come in one day...

In the meantime on my Linux system, I use 2 different configurations according 
to my needs of the moment:
- one is the "standard" Xfce4
- the other one is with "xfwm4 --daemon" replaced by openMotif-2.1.30 "mwm &" 
and with xftaskbar4/xfce4-iconbox and xfdesktop commented out in my xinitrc.
(Thanks to Xfce4 modularity)

However the second option is far from being perfect since I loose the ability 
of workspace (virtual desktop) management. This feature has been removed from 
Motif 2.0
Unfortunately I don't know how to get this old bloody Motif 2.0 source code.
Anyone knows?

Cheers,
Roger

PS	Here are 2 screenshots
http://rmlx.dyndns.org/s01/doc/misc/documents.html

On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 07:00 am, Nepple, Bruce wrote:
> I finally got around to trying xfce3 as a CDE replacement, and
> I really like it.  In fact, being able to iconize to the desktop AND
> shade was a nice bonus.  The icons snap to the right, or back to where you
> put them just as I hoped.  The icon placement grid is finer
> grained than CDE, but that could be construed as a feature also.
>
> I'm sure thare are lots of other nice features I haven't discovered yet.
>
> *If* you do add iconizing to xfce4, I hope you do it as it was done in
> xfce3.
>
> Thanks
>
> Bruce
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