Xfce 4.4 call for testing

Gilboa Davara gilboad at gmail.com
Thu Oct 5 22:19:39 UTC 2006


On 10/5/06, Patrice Dumas <pertusus at free.fr> wrote:
> > We might revisit that idea in a few weeks if the devel/fc6 bits all
> > look good and stable, but it's a reasonably large undertaking to
> > update everything and gets the plugins and core bits in sync, etc.
>
> I, personally don't think it is worth having xfce 4.4 in fc5. Too much
> work and too much risk of breakage for little gain (I switched back
> and forth and I didn't saw much difference, except now there are icons
> but I don't use xfce for that ;-). However it should be good to have
> 4.4 'specific' apps in fc5, like exo, Terminal, thunar and so on (if
> they aren't there allready and there are no missing deps, of course).
>
> --
> Pat
>

Well, for what its worth, I'm typing this on 4.4 on FC5 and it's
working just fine. (On my PII/366/256MB Laptop)
It'll be nice if you could keep the current FC5 RPMs alive when the
FC6/devel go into -extras.

Anyways, good work!
- Gilboa




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