Xfce 4.6 Final is out!

Acecero · 2009-02-27 01:14:48

"The long awaited 4.6.0 version of the Xfce Desktop Environment is finally available."

Check it out people, new improvements and a good visual tour!

http://www.xfce.org/about/news?id=21

http://www.xfce.org/about/tour

JawsThemeSwimming428 · 2009-02-27 01:25:46

I think it was just the Release Candidate the was released. Your first link goes nowhere... here is what I found.

http://www.xfce.org/about/news?id=20

Allan · 2009-02-27 01:29:34

The first link works for me

the link wrote:

[27 February 2009 by The Xfce Development Team]
After more than two years of development, Xfce 4.6.0 has just been released.

Acecero · 2009-02-27 01:50:05

@JawsThemeSwimming428: Somehow you got redirected to older link. Notice the difference on the last 2 digits on the link you posted and mine. [20 <--> 21]

Anyway, I'm so glad it arrived. It was worth the wait.

Wintervenom · 2009-02-27 01:58:44

Xfce Development Team wrote:

Release milestones: Final
Codename: Xfce 4.6.0
Date: 06.02.2009
Bugzilla tag: xfce-4.6.0
Level: 20/20

EDIT: Never mind. I just saw the homepage today.

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yingwuzhao · 2009-02-27 02:09:18

Great news!
Waiting for Arch Repo to have it available.:D:D

RiceMonster · 2009-02-27 02:11:28

Fantastic. I've been looking forward to this. Can't wait 'till it makes it into the Arch repos .

CheesyBeef · 2009-02-27 02:41:35

Awesome! I wonder if there are any changes in resource usage. In the visual tour, they mention they have re-written the clock plugin to use less resources.

Dieter@be · 2009-02-27 13:16:30

looks good. Not for me though.

will1911a1 · 2009-02-27 13:16:49

Sweet. Can't wait to try it out.

arch0r · 2009-02-27 13:44:32

looks like a great, hopefully lightweight, gnome alternative. looking forward to see the packages in the repo :>

userlander · 2009-02-27 14:04:33

It's in testing, isn't it?

Allan · 2009-02-27 14:08:24

userlander wrote:

It's in testing, isn't it?

The RC is.

Devastator · 2009-02-27 14:18:40

Yes, yes, yes

Hope to see it in repos soon

dolby · 2009-02-27 16:45:16

I wonder if the screen still becomes white when the shut down menu comes up. This is probably the most annoying XFCE feature.

thomasknowles · 2009-02-27 21:34:23

This pleases me.

benob · 2009-02-27 22:16:01

issues I had with the RC in testing: the mixer applet would die for weird reasons, the keyboard layout switcher did not work. I hope those guys are fixed in 4.6 :-D

Acecero · 2009-02-27 22:24:44

Sweet it's uploaded to the main repos, now what's left is to wait for the repos to sync and we are on our way!

Thank you Arch devs!

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alecmg · 2009-02-28 00:33:11

I bit wary of upgrading. Have used 4.4 for years now.

Can anybody report the upgrade went smooth?

Acecero · 2009-02-28 00:42:15

It went fine for me so far on my 64 bit install.

Pacman of course is going to ask you to remove xfce-mcs-plugins, xfce-mcs-manager, and libxfce4mcs, in order to make way for the new xfconf and xfce4-settngs manager, that we yearn for.

It just requires reconfiguring the settings again, if you want to return the appearance back the way you had it.

will1911a1 · 2009-02-28 03:49:34

Couple things:

There doesn't seem to be any way to hide the icons on the desktop, even with icons set to "none."
If I wanted icons, running conky hides them. Sort of fixes problem number one, but I'd love to be able to have both at the same time if I wanted.
If I use my mouse scroll wheel to switch desktops conky doesn't show up again until I actually move my pointer.

Last edited by will1911a1 (2009-02-28 03:52:54)

Acecero · 2009-02-28 05:51:42

@will1911a1: For the first one, I had that weird issue too, but I found a way.

What I did was randomly selecting the icon type to "File/launcher icons" and then going back to "None." This actually worked and all the icons on the desktop disappeared without checking off the Default Icons.

edit: btw, is there a way to adjust the shadow setting in compositing? It's actually wider then normal by default.

Last edited by Acecero (2009-02-28 05:58:20)

CuleX · 2009-02-28 07:46:28

Are there any problems with the i686 version? x86_64 already has 4.6 in the repos, i686 not. Weird...

AndyRTR · 2009-02-28 09:19:06

CuleX wrote:

Are there any problems with the i686 version? x86_64 already has 4.6 in the repos, i686 not. Weird...

Man, I'm not a build bot

Will do i686 packages later tonight and then some updates and bugfixes to the goodies and plugins. Stay patient.

ugaciaka · 2009-02-28 09:33:51

i see that the right click menu of xfce no longer opens a gui to edit the item ... is this normal?

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