Xfce 4.2.0 released!

[Scott Horowitz]

Kudos to the developer team, they've all done an incredible job! Now 
that Xfld with 4.2 is out, I can go ahead with my plan of converting a 
friend from Mac OSX to Linux/Xfce ;)

Scott

Benedikt Meurer wrote:
> Official Announcement
> ---------------------
> 
> The Xfce Team[1] is pleased to announce the availability of Xfce 4.2.0,
> the next major version of the Xfce Desktop Environment and Development
> Framework for Unix and Unix-like platforms. Xfce 4.2.0 can be downloaded
> here[2].
> 
> Xfce 4.2.0 includes new applications like a session manager and an
> application finder, a new and beautiful icon theme, support for
> bleeding-edge features (like the X.org Composite extension), usability
> and performance improvements, better support for multihead desktops,
> new and updated translations, additional themes, and various other
> improvements over the previous stable releases. See this page[3] for a
> complete list of changes between Xfce 4.0 and Xfce 4.2.
> 
> Furthermore, Xfce 4.2 is the first desktop environment to ship with an
> easy-to-use and platform-independent graphical installation wizard,
> which takes care of compiling and installing Xfce on your system. Visit
> the os-cillation installers website[4] for download links and instructions.
> 
> If you want to try Xfce 4.2.0 first, without installing anything on your
> system, you might want to try the Xfce Live Demo[5] 0.2, provided by
> os-cillation[6], to discover the power and efficiency of Xfce.
> 
> A short trailer that introduces Xfce 4.2.0 is available in high- and
> low-bandwidth versions here[7].
> 
> [1] http://www.xfce.org/
> [2] http://www.xfce.org/index.php?page=download
> [3] http://www.xfce.org/release_notes/4.2.0_changelog.html
> [4] http://xfce-installers.os-cillation.com/
> [5] http://www.xfld.org/
> [6] http://www.os-cillation.com/
> [7] http://xfce.org/various/trailers.html
> 
> 
> Spread Xfce!
> ------------
> 
> If you plan to announce Xfce 4.2.0 on your favourite news site now, please
> remember to use the official "Short announcement" (or a translation of
> it), since we have all agreed on that text. The text is available from:
> 
>   http://www.xfce.org/~benny/releng.html
> 
> (use only the version marked as "Final").
> 
> 
> Personal notes
> --------------
> 
> I'd like to thank all contributors that were involved in the development
> of this great new Xfce release. A big thumbs up to all testers, who have
> helped to find and fix bugs, to all users who have made suggestions on
> how to improve Xfce, to all translators, who did an impressive job (41
> different languages!), and to everybody else who contributed to this
> release in some way. I'm really proud to be part of this great open
> source project!
> 
> 
> greets,
> Benedikt
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