Status of xfce 4

[Olivier Fourdan]

Hi Lonni,

Use either xsm or gnome-session (and Botsie posted some kinda howto to
make gnome-session run xfce4 only, ie w/out the panel)

FYI, all components in xfce4 are session aware, we just miss the session
manager itself. And xfce3 did not have one either, it was simply xfwm
that was taking care of restoring the apps. While this would be easy to
do in xfwm4, I'm against it :P

I'm fairly sure we all can live w/out a session manager right now. For
those who cannot, "man xsm" ;)

Cheers,
Olivier.

On Sat, 2003-03-29 at 17:00, Net Llama! wrote:
> On 03/29/03 06:50, Jasper Huijsmans wrote:
> > Here's my thoughts on the status of XFce 4. Is this anywhere near to
> > other people's impression?
> > 
> > * libraries: ready
> > 
> > * settings manager and plugins: ready
> > 
> > * xfwm4: ready
> > 
> > * panel: ready
> > 
> > * xfdesktop: I think releasable, unless we _really_ want a menu editor
> > 
> > * xffm: steam-rolling ahead, not entirely finished yet (?)
> > 
> > * xfce-utils: ready, apart from finishing the credits page in
> >   xfce4-about
> > 
> > * xfprint: haven't really tried it yet. Can't break much I guess,
> >   so should be fine if it works as planned.
> > 
> > * xfibx: not even in CVS, but seems simple enough and doesn't seem to
> >   break stuff. Would be nice to have, I think.
> > 
> > * documentation: Not finished by far. I think I would prefer to put all
> >   documentation in a separate module. My feeling is that this will make
> >   it easier to explain  how the desktop environment as a whole is 
> >   supposed to work. 
> > 
> > Did I miss anything?
> 
> what about some kind of session manager?  i'm referring to the widget 
> that remembers what i left running, when i logged out, and restarts it 
> the next time (with the same geomety & placement)?  as of a CVS checkout 
> from yesterday, i didn't see this working.
-- 
Olivier Fourdan <fourdan at xfce.org>
http://www.xfce.org