[Xfce4-commits] r17207 - libxfcegui4/trunk/libxfcegui4

[Benedikt Meurer]

Jeff Franks wrote:
> With all the talk of deprecation what about considering Xfce 5.0 rather 
> than 4.4. It would give us the opportuniy to clean out the Xfce4 source 
> tree by removing unnecessary widgets and code, without Xfce4 ABI/API 
> breakage. We could reduce the number of SVN modules and hence 
> distributable packages as well. These are things that have all been 
> mentioned before over the past few months but not seriously considered. 
> With such a long Xfce release cycle... maybe there's no time like the 
> present.

We lack manpower here. My feeling is that with all the good stuff that
will come with 4.4 (python bindings, C++ bindings, Perl bindings,
libexo, new panel, new xffm, Thunar, ...) we'll see more people joining
Xfce and so we could probably break after 4.4.

> Jeff. 

Benedikt