Schedule for 4.4

[Jasper Huijsmans]

Joao Pedrosa schreef:
> Hi all,
> 
> it's good to see the shaping up of 4.4.
> 
>     The panel should be feature-complete, but probably not everything is
>     working as it should. It is working well enough to start alpha/beta
>     testing, I believe. I can't test xinerama/multi-head myself, so I will
>     need some help with that.
> 
> 
> I still use a custom version of Xfce 4.3 that I hacked with some workaround
> to make it work with multi-head, so it has been a while that I haven't 
> tested
> the improvements of the Panel and of the other things with multi-head.
> I particularly don't like to use Xinerama, but I found out that it worked
> relatively well in the past, because it's only one instance of the X server.
> With multi-head I think we use two or more instance of the X server which
> can make it harder to get the code to behave well for single instance and
> multiple instances.
> 
> I'm going to update my version of Xfce 4.3 again in the comming days,
> because I want to see if Thunar got a certain fix already for a bug that
> crashes it while I rename a directory with it, and it would be good to
> test the default multi-head again before I need to update it with my
> hacks to make it work for me.
> 
> I think email is a good means for some exchanges of ideas and testing
> responses, because I prefer it to IM. If you want me to report directly
> to you if I find problems with the multi-head I would be glad to to help you
> create a good multi-head version for 4.4. Maybe I could use Fluxbox or
> even Gnome while I test the versions of Xfce before they work for me in
> multi-head.
> 
> What do you say? :-)
> 

Please, do let me know what you find. Any feedback is appreciated, 
especially concerning multihead and xinerama.

	Jasper