Announce: Xfce 4.4.0 released

Bo Thide' bt at phisp.irfu.se
Wed Jan 24 20:28:45 CET 2007


Auke,

In your e-mail of Wed Jan 24 20:22:34 2007 you wrote:
> 
> Bo Thide' wrote:
> > Auke,
> > 
> > I respect that you, and perhaps even most other typical xfce users out
> > there, like the current default look and feel of xfce.  That's fine and
> > dandy.  But then you should respect that in a professional setting like
> > ours, we would be happier with another look and feel.  Not a simpler,
> > more primitive one, but a stricter, more uniform, elegant and
> > sophisticated one.
> 
> those are very subjective words. "Strict" and "elegant" are also 
> contradictionary in my perception. Again we're talking about personal preferences.
> 
> However, nothing prevents you from skinning and theming Xfce to your hearts 
> desire. Nitpicking over a few arrow pixels results in the obvious "then fix it 
> yourself and maintain it" defense, which is highly appropriate.
> 
> Nothing stops you from pursuing that. I'd even encourage you to do so and become 
> a good 'alternative xfce theme' maintainer.
> 

Time permitting, we might become just that.  The most urgent thing,
however, would be to add a graphical shell similar to dtksh.

Bo



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