libxfce4gui (deprecated)

[Andreas Müller]

On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 8:11 AM, Nick Schermer <nick at xfce.org> wrote:
> On 2012-04-03 04:12, Ahau @porteus.org wrote:
>>
>> Hi guys,
>>
>> I'm working on compiling 4.9 for testing.  I must say, great job, devs!
>>
>> I am having an issue getting all of the panel plugins working,
>> however, because they appear to have a hard dependency on libxfce4gui,
>> which has apparently been deprecated.  Further, this package no longer
>> compiles against 4.9 (it compiled fine against 4.8).  Does anyone have
>> a workaround for this, do we need to wait for goodies-devs to update
>> their code for 4.10, or am I a moron, and the only one with this
>> issue?
>
>
> No, it does not build anymore because of removed code in libxfce4util. I'll
> release a new version for 4.10 later.
>
> For now, you can use the patch below to make it work again:
> http://git.xfce.org/xfce/libxfcegui4/patch/?id=9042e70bf7c8266aef059114d27ec1764fc41466
>
Isn't 4.10 the time to say goodbye to libxfce4gui?

As mentioned before (sorry for the noise) for some plugins there are
patches waiting:

cpufreq: https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8051
datetime: https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8064
eyes: https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8074
diskperf: https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8099

Others are found in git but are not yet released

weather: http://git.xfce.org/panel-plugins/xfce4-weather-plugin/commit/?id=d776b317fd3b6523490ecc2159d693485d69c01c
genmon: http://git.xfce.org/panel-plugins/xfce4-genmon-plugin/commit/?id=84b188903d33db6e3f41b50cf8fb1d675c0882e7
cpugraph: http://git.xfce.org/panel-plugins/xfce4-cpugraph-plugin/commit/?id=008b9c3b44351909a0063726179f3f8246c00652

Andreas