ANNOUNCE: Xfce 4.10pre2 released

[Bela Markus]

Hi,

I'm next to Harald. pre1 and pre2 is stable and runs smoothly on Tiny 
Core, I like this edition better. Can't comment on thunar notes as 
current gvfs in TC is nearly useless unfortunately.

All together it's a nice job, thanks!

Béla

2012.04.16. 19:53 keltezéssel, Harald Judt írta:
> Hi,
>
> Am 14.04.2012 10:41, schrieb Nick Schermer:
>> Xfce 4.10pre2 is now available for download.
>>
>> It includes the following releases of Xfce core components:
>>
>>    exo 0.7.3
>>    garcon 0.1.12
>>    gtk-xfce-engine 2.99.3
>>    libxfce4ui 4.9.2
>>    libxfce4util 4.9.1
>>    thunar 1.3.2
>>    thunar-volman 0.7.1
>>    tumbler 0.1.24
>>    xfce4-appfinder 4.9.5
>>    xfce4-dev-tools 4.9.2
>>    xfce4-panel 4.9.2
>>    xfce4-power-manager 1.1.0
>>    xfce4-session 4.9.1
>>    xfce4-settings 4.9.5
>>    xfconf 4.9.1
>>    xfdesktop 4.9.3
>>    xfwm4 4.9.1
>
> [snip]
>
>> We hope you will enjoy this release. Please give us feedback by sharing
>> your thoughts, blogging, tweeting or by filing bug reports! With your
>> help, 4.10 will be the best release ever (at least until 4.12)!
>>
>> Kind regards and thanks to everyone who has contributed to this
>> release,
>>
>> The Xfce development team
>
> Gratulations for a pretty stable and feature-complete release. I don't 
> have much time to spare for in-depth tests, so here are some minor 
> bugs I encountered when updating from 4.8.x packages on gentoo 
> (reproduced on two machines with quite similar xfce config):
>
> xfce4-panel plugins:
>  * For some reason, the tasklist does not expand anymore, so I had to 
> add an expanding separator. Really not a big issue, but an unexpected 
> one. Since one can use the separator, I don't see why a change would 
> be needed here.
>  * Action button plugin: Actually a nice improvement, especially the 
> now working darkening of the background when the session menu is 
> displayed and the good german translation (that's true for all the 
> other xfce apps too). Except of the following annoyances:
>   - The button was not visible/accessible in the panel, the one and 
> only solution was to remove it and add it again via the panel properties.
>   - When "session menu" is selected in the options, the user name is 
> printed. First, I don't like that and rather had it show an icon 
> instead (namely that of the shutdown button), as it wastes space, and 
> second, the username is printed in dark grey on the dark panel 
> background, so it's hard to impossible to read. The first one is 
> clearly a matter of taste, but the second one should really be dealt 
> with, as it probably will affect all users using a dark theme.
>
> thunar:
>  * thunar is still horrible to use for accessing samba workstations 
> (password dialogs everywhere) and suffers from other gvfs etc lib 
> integration deficiencies. Other parts of it have improved a bit 
> though. It would be really great to see it becoming more user-friendly 
> and polished in the next xfce release, even if you try to keep it simple.
>
> For me, this update is really a lot better than the experience that 
> the 4.6->4.8 transition had been. All panel plugins work fine and do 
> not crash. Most apps (appfinder, panel,...) look very polished and 
> have improved much feature-wise. Thanks for the good work!
>
> Harald
>