XFCE 4.4 beta

[Martin Krois]

Nic Stevens wrote:
> samuel verstraete wrote:
>> On Thu, 04 May 2006 07:30:54 -0700
>> Nic Stevens <nic.stevens at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>   
>>> Ok ... here's a few things I see as issues with the beta. I don't
>>> know if I would call these bugs or not but from the perspective of a
>>> desktop user these are things that I found as either deficient or
>>> awkward:
>>>
>>> Desktop:
>>>
>>>    1. Desktop icon display should have transparent background on icon
>>>       text labels.
>>>     
>>
>> Has been discussed and will not be implemented. 
>>   
> IMHO this looks really ugly with a dark background. Reminds me of OLD 
> versions of Windows (gag)

Perhaps a change in color instead, I *think* transparency might slow it 
down for no apparent gain.

> 4.4 has, on the surface, the feature set I was hoping it to have. The 
> reality, however, is that I would end up doing as I did with 4.2 which 
> was to use nautilus for the desktop and file management. In the end, 
> with 4.2, I ended up going back to gnome because I kept adding "gnome 
> features" to xfce. To get the same functionality I want with 4.4 I will 
> need to do the same thing.
> 
> Perhaps I'm bitching too much and should just shut up and use gnome 
> since that's what works has the features I want.

I left Gnome because of too many of those sorts of features. Speed is 
most important IMHO, at least on my machine gnome was rather slowish, 
then again, I did not put any effort into removing the eye candy to make 
it faster.

Nautilus is also very slow on my machine when run i Xfce, Rox is much 
much faster, and I'm looking forward to try Thunar.

/martin