Xfce 4.1 alpha release?

[Brian J. Tarricone]

woohoo!  i'm pretty happy with xfdesktop as it is now (i'm so happy, i 
actually almost wouldn't mind a real feature-freeze at this point).

i think the APIs are in pretty good shape (at least the ones i'm 
'responsible' for).  i may want to tweak XfceFileChooser a little bit, 
as there are a couple functions that (in hindsight) are pretty useless, 
but i'm otherwise happy.

i'd like a little more work on the icon stuff, maybe, before an alpha 
goes out.  i think a few icons in my desktop menu disappeared after 
jasper's icon work, and i haven't found the time to find them yet.

i'd also like to see the mcs manager work done (i believe benny said 
yesterday his backend work was finished) just to make sure xfdesktop is 
playing nicely multiscreen-wise.

otherwise, yeah, an alpha release sounds good.  just not before next 
week.  i'm leaving town tomorrow early morning, and i won't be back till 
saturday noonish (EST, of course).  assuming benny has the mcs stuff 
done (or at least testable) by the weekend, i can probably resolve all 
my existing TODOs by monday.

	-brian


On Tue, 22 Jun 2004, Olivier wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> Why not making a alpha release of Xfce 4.1? 
> 
> - Is the API stable enough? I guess so now.
> - Is the software stable enough? Well, xfce4-session (session vanishing
> under Linux) and xfdesktop (menu causing crashes to GNOME apps) bugs
> have been fixed, so I now think it would be safe to release some code.
> - The panel seems to be in a fairly stable state.
> - So is xfwm4 now, it's just passed all of my smoking tests ;)
> - xffm: Hehehe, Edscott, it's state is a bit blured for me ;) Where do
> we stand regarding xffm?
> - xfce-mcs-manager multiscreen? I've heard of an multiscreen
> implementation of the mcs-manager from Benny. I don't know much of it,
> but I guess it duplicates the XSETTINGS/MCS channels on every screen.
> Benny, any additional info?
> - Anything else? Comments/ideas/suggestions welcome.
> 
> Cheers,
> Olivier.
>