Am Dienstag, den 13.08.2019, 19:58 +0200 schrieb Tim Tassonis via
blfs-dev:
> Hi all
> 
> 
> For anybody using xfce4  as their desktop, I wanted to share my progress 
> regarding the new release.
> 
> I have now compiled all new packages in the usual order, without any 
> problem. Just to be sure, I have also re-compiled those packages in the 
> xfce chapter (garcon, xfce4-notifyd) that got no new versions, just to 
> be sure.
> 
> I could then successfully log in to my desktop, without any problems, 
> everything that was newly compiled seems to work. I have not tested all 
> other applications yet, but I can confirm that at least xfce4-terminal 
> needs a recompile, while xfce4-screenshooter does not.
> 
> 
> I will do further test later and then update all the pages.
> 
> But in short: it seems that an upgrade will go very smoothly and  there 
> won't be many changes in the book for the new release, which is quite nice.
> 
That good to hear that xfce is still alive and that the upgrade is not
that heavy. I'm using xfce since years and i love it as it is (to me)
the right balance between functionality and simplyness. Looking
forward to see if there are some design changes.

What about dependencies to gtk2/gtk3? Do we still need both?

--
Thomas

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