GTK+ 3

[dE .]

On 10/15/11 04:13, Matt x wrote:
> dE .,
>    What changes do you think xfce needs to become "mainstream", "easy 
> to use", and "feature rich"?  It already seems easy to use to me; no 
> harder or easier than Gnome2 was.  It already has almost all the 
> features I want (or will in 4.10) except the non-essential 
> just-for-looks ones.
>
> -Matt
>
> On 10/14/2011 12:55 PM, dE . wrote:
>> Hi.
>>
>> Hello devs, great job with the DE. I'd been personally used the DE for a
>> year and now I'm thinking of replacing Gnome with it for deployment.
>>
>> First I'd like to write what I think people think about xfce after Gnome
>> 3 arrived. People don't see Xfce as a light weight DE anymore, they see
>> it as a mainstream DE, a replacement of Gnome 2 which I think has
>> started to deprecate (someday it will); the lightweight section has been
>> replaced with lxde; Even Linus announced, he's quitting Gnome in favor
>> of Xfce.
>>
>> So I suggest the Xfce project should change it's goal towards being a
>> lightweight DE to a mainstream DE -- i.e. more feature rich but it's
>> main objective should be being user friendly and retaining the classic
>> desktop to avoid migration cost and retraining. At this time, this's
>> what people expect from Xfce. Around release of Gnome 3, searches for
>> xfce has been increasing -
>>
>> http://www.google.com/trends?q=xfce
>>
>> People searching for gnome and xfce together means they're trying to
>> migrate -
>>
>> http://www.google.com/trends?q=xfce+gnome&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all
>> <http://www.google.com/trends?q=xfce+gnome&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all>
>>
>> It'll continue to increase but only if xfce does what people expect it
>> to do -- be the mainstream.
>>
>> My main question was -- what about GTK 3 migration? It has to be done
>> someday.
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Thunar search integration and tabbed browsing is something I missed to 
start off.