History (Was: Xfce Foundation status)

[Chris G]

On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 08:29:40PM +0200, Liviu Andronic wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 8:42 AM, Mihamina Rakotomandimby
> <mihamina at gulfsat.mg> wrote:
> >> landronimirc at gmail.com :
> >>When I first tried Xfce, 4.2 I think, it was half usable, resembling
> >>Fluxbox more than Gnome.
> >
> > Uh! I dont agree :-)
> > I used XFCE from the 3.6 on Sun sparc (Debian) and it was fine and
> > completely usable.
> >
> Of course, my comments should be qualified. :)
> 
> Two elements that I remember vividly from my early experience with
> Xfce is the need to manually configure panel items and the absence of
> desktop icons.

Both of which are why I prefer the way it was!

>                The former is now elegantly performed via DnD from the
> App finder, while the latter has been very nicely implemented. This
> but also various other improvements to robustness, feel and software
> choice mean that I can now boldly install Linux with Xfce on my
> mother's computers in her office and on my gilfriend's laptop and have
> them peacefully use it.
> 
While I agree that for some (many, most) people the current default
setup is probably right it's a pity that the 'automatic configuration'
cannot be turned off somehow enabling one to do things as before.

-- 
Chris Green