Xfce 4.4 call for testing

[Arthur Pemberton]

On 10/2/06, Kevin Fenzi <kevin-redhat-devel at scrye.com> wrote:
>
> Myself and Christoph (The xfce plugins maintainer for extras) have been
> building and testing Xfce4.4rc1 since it's release (and the betas before it).
>
> Things are looking all good with our limited testing now.
>
> I think we have addressed everything such as:
>
> - Some plugins are no longer available in 4.4 as their functionality
> has been pulled into core Xfce packages, so we have added the required
> Obsoletes/Provides to allow smooth upgrades with those installed.
>
> - Some packages have changed name (xfcalendar is now orage, etc), and
> they should be handled correctly.
>
> - Lots of cleanups of the packages.
>
> So, We would like to invite folks to do some more testing on the
> packages. If you have never used Xfce, you might take this as a fine
> chance to take a look at it. It's a lovely quick desktop env.
>
> In particular I would like to hear from people who already have
> the 4.3.2 packages installed and upgrade to the 4.4 packages.
>
> I'm not sure if we are going to try and push things in this week before
> fc6 is released, or wait until after fc6 and push them into devel
> and then push them into fc6 later. Thoughts on that would be welcome.
>
> For your /etc/yum.repos.d/xfce44.repo file:
> --cut--
> [xfce44beta]
> name=Xfce 4.4 rc1
> baseurl=http://www.scrye.com/xfce-4.4rc1/development/RPMS
> enabled=1
> gpgcheck=0
> --cut--
>
> Thanks for any feedback and testing you can provide!
>
> kevin
>
>

Setting up yum now. Last time I used XFCE was in FC2/FC3 on a server I
setup. Will give it a try. Anything I should look out for
specifically?

Arthur
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