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Friday, May 05, 2006

New Xfce Installer

Jannis just uploaded new screenshots demonstrating the next generation of the Xfce Installer, which will hopefully be available for BETA2.

Be sure to have a look!

posted by Benedikt Meurer at 00:33

10 Comments:

  • Very nice... when xfce4.4 will be released as stable?

    By Blogger Jorge Emmanuel Herrera Cabrera, at 5/5/06 03:22  

  • Perhaps I'm a bit naïve, but I don't understand all this noise about the installer (in xfce-forums intaller trumpets too).

    Almost all distributions praised Xfce, so it is packaged in all possible fashions.

    Is really installer a must !!??

    By Blogger Manolo, at 5/5/06 10:56  

  • manolo: There are at least two reasons why the installer may be useful:

    1. Unexperienced People can install Xfce (and other software) from source more easily. The installer also makes it possible to uninstall packages. Of course you don't have to use it as soon as your distribution provides packages for those packages.

    2. You'll be able to install/remove goodies much faster. At the moment, you'd have to go to the BerliOS website, download the tarball of your choice and compile it. Now you can just choose it from the package list and install it. No need for manual download and other stuff taking your time.

    By Anonymous Jannis, at 5/5/06 12:40  

  • besides - LFS users will feel some relief - they still have the installer that builds from source :]

    By Anonymous yoshi314, at 5/5/06 13:03  

  • Simple use case: Latest stable Ubuntu ships with a rather old Xfce (4.2.something). Now you can either upgrade to the latest and greatest unstable Ubuntu pre-release (and thereby risk to break your existing installation completely), or you can just use the installer w/o breaking anything and if you don't like the new version just deinstall it.

    By Blogger Benedikt Meurer, at 5/5/06 16:24  

  • Updated the screenshots again (now with the new XfceHeading). Benny, could you update the URL in your post? It's http://dev.sten-net.de/2006/05/05/installit-new-screenshots/ now.

    By Anonymous Jannis, at 5/5/06 20:46  

  • Ok. Thanks for the answers. Jannis, I think Debian distributes (almost?) all goodies as separate packages, with some delay since publication.

    One more question:

    Does the installer put the things in a way compatible with all distros? I mean, all the "/usr/share" staff, the menu input for xdm/gdm/kdm, and so on.

    Or alternatively, can the user configure these as options?

    If yes, perhaps I'll give a try.

    By Blogger Manolo, at 9/5/06 12:28  

  • Atleast the current installer (the one-binary installer) can optionally setup login managers (dtlogin, gdm and kdm are supported).

    By Blogger Benedikt Meurer, at 9/5/06 15:24  

  • hi,
    zurzeit teste ich die aktuelle Version der XFce Oberfläche. Am Besten gefällt mir die sagenhafte Geschwindigkeit und das super aussehen. Macht weiter so !!!

    By Blogger twessels, at 14/5/06 00:13  

  • Horray!!! Sounds great. Goodies and all. I'll use it when 4.4 final comes out...as like someone said slackware will be unlikely to have official packages for the newest version in a timely fashion (nor goodies).

    By Blogger blog, at 26/5/06 07:04  

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