Xfce review as seen in the press

Biju Chacko botsie at xfce.org
Fri Jan 13 05:45:38 CET 2006


Ravi Kumar wrote:
> On 1/13/06, Erik Harrison <erikharrison at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>On 1/12/06, Brian J. Tarricone <bjt23 at cornell.edu> wrote:
>>
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>>>On 1/12/2006 12:17 PM, Olivier Fourdan wrote:
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>>>>Nice review! A bit of exposure never hurts ;)
>>>>
>>>>http://linuxhelp.blogspot.com/2006/01/xfce-42-light-weight-window-manager.html
>>>>
>>>>Except one small thing, as noted in the comments, xfmail is not part of
>>>>xfce...
>>>
>>>Aw, man... now I can't write a mail client and call it xfmail.  I
>>>actually have to be creative now.  Not fair.
>>
>>Or just not write a mail client
>>
>>Which, yannow, I'm down with
>>
> 
> Hi,
> What GUI library is used by the developers of XFCE to create these
> light weight applications ? Have you developed a unique library
> in-house or are you using GTK+ ones ?

It's mostly Gtk2. Btw, there are a bunch of factual errors in your blog. 
If you like I can drop you a mail offlist about them.

-- b



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