On Mon, Jul 01, 2019 at 09:33:04AM +0200, Landry Breuil wrote:
> On Sat, May 25, 2019 at 06:43:49PM +0200, Landry Breuil wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > since some years now i've been maintaining x11/xfce4 in the portstree,
> > with an alternate repo at https://cgit.rhaalovely.net/xfce4/?h=next
> > tracking upstream devel releases. This repo now contains all the bits
> > composing 4.14pre1 (cf
> > https://simon.shimmerproject.org/2019/05/19/xfce-4-14pre1-released/ for
> > the details, the main thing being of course the complete port to Gtk+3),
> > the final release being targeted at sometimes during the summer.
> > 
> > as an upstream developer i've of course been running it during the
> > development cycle on most of my boxes, but now would be a good time for
> > other Xfce users on OpenBSD to give it a shot and eventually report some
> > bugs to https://bugzilla.xfce.org.
> > 
> > The main OpenBSD-specific change is
> > https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14722 (needs testing !)
> > which will make the consolekit/policykit/messagebus dependency
> > completely optional, allowing an user in the operator group to shutdown
> > the machine (ie can run the shutdown binary), or suspend/hibernate if in
> > the wheel group (ie has access to apmdev), instead of relying on 3
> > daemons running as root. The previous mode of needing messagebus
> > running + spawning startxfce4 within consolekit should still work.
> > 
> > amd64 -current packages for all core xfce pkgs (and some others i'm
> > using) are available at https://packages.rhaalovely.net/wip/amd64/
> > (signed with https://packages.rhaalovely.net/landry-mozilla-pkg.pub)
> > 
> > barring delays, this should make 6.6, but it's better if it's been
> > "widely" tested before..
> 
> Fwiw, all updated to 4.14pre2, per
> https://wiki.xfce.org/releng/4.14/xfce_4.14pre2.
> Feedback & testing still welcome.

The same wip repo at https://packages.rhaalovely.net/wip/amd64/ now has
4.14 final (cf https://xfce.org/about/news/?post=1565568000), packages
built against 6.6-beta. Got very few reports from testers, sadly.. now
is the time to test before i commit it soon.

Landry

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