The future of Xfce (or beating the Gtk3 horse to death)

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Mon Mar 18 22:50:37 CET 2013


Liviu Andronic <landronimirc at gmail.com> wrote:
[snip]
> So if Gtk3 indeed evolves to become incompatible with Xfce by having
> hitherto standard functionality removed, what would Xfce do? Stick
> with Gtk2, as remotely likely as it seems right now? Radically change
> direction and switch to Enlightenment (
> http://www.enlightenment.org/p.php?p=about/efl ), as Auke once
> suggested and especially since Enlightenment seems more compatible
> with the Xfce philosophy than Gtk3 given the direction in which the
> latter is currently heading?
> 
I'm not all that keen on Enlightenment personally, I found it had some
odd quirks when I tried it (via Lubuntu).

-- 
Chris Green



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