Xfce Diary

Sunday, January 21, 2007

A Visual Tour of Xfce 4.4.0

I just wrote a short summary of the major changes that went into the upcoming Xfce 4.4.0. The article is available here (and will also be published on the new Xfce website later).

posted by Benedikt Meurer at 18:11

31 Comments:

  • Hi,

    I have write a short review about the tour in Turkish.It can be found here,

    http://www.murekkep.org/xfce-440-surumundeki-yeni-ozellikler-kisa-ozet

    Regards
    Fatih

    By Anonymous Fatih Arslan, at 21/1/07 22:19  

  • Nice tour :D

    Btw, in

    (GNOME users may have already noticed that GNOME adopted this approach, because it is such simple)

    It should be "so simple" :D

    By Anonymous Vincent, at 22/1/07 15:01  

  • Congrations on a great release!

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 22/1/07 16:07  

  • I have writen it in spanish, see here:
    www.bocabyte.tk

    By Anonymous eumigue, at 22/1/07 16:55  

  • Hello. I enjoyed using Xubuntu last year. Is there a network contol center for Xfce 4.4.0? Xfce runs quite fast on my Fujitsu LOOX Biblo laptop w/ TM 867 processor, 512MB RAM, and 8MB ATI Rage Mobility video chip. Since this laptop is somewhat old, I keep looking for a lightweight OS. Thanks for your work!

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 22/1/07 17:37  

  • Hi, does anybody know at what time the 4.4 release will be available within the Xubuntu packet management?

    I want it now! ;)

    greets from Germany

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 22/1/07 19:52  

  • It is a pity that XFCE is based on GTK otherwise I would probably use it.

    Everything looks so ugly :(

    Buttons look horrible and windows options look terrible.

    They should switch to Qt, at least it would look nice.

    This ugly Gnome theme cause me a headache. Just do yourself a favour next time and switch to Qt.

    Beside this, well done people.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 22/1/07 20:42  

  • In my opinion qt design realy sucks.

    GTK optic is just fine, you could use KDE if you want qt design, or install a qt skin for GTK apps (ubuntu package name: gtk2-engines-gtk-qt)

    have fun with XFCE!

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 22/1/07 20:45  

  • "or install a qt skin for GTK apps (ubuntu package name: gtk2-engines-gtk-qt)

    have fun with XFCE!"

    Thanx for this. I will give it a try. :)

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 22/1/07 20:54  

  • Your page is as low as my Xubuntu is on my P3 533Mhz... But's I think it's a Ubuntu bug, don't worry ;)

    By Anonymous adam0509, at 22/1/07 21:03  

  • "Thanx for this. I will give it a try. :)"

    No problem, I hope you will like it. I never tested it, you know why ;)

    Anyway, has anybody informations at what time XFCE 4.4 will be available on xubuntu repositories?

    By Anonymous Discodestroyer, at 22/1/07 22:54  

  • Thanks to everybody who worked on this. Certainly a great release!

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 22/1/07 23:11  

  • Very very nice release! Thank you very much! Love it! Looks beautiful, great work!

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 23/1/07 10:10  

  • I realize desktop icons are new to Xfce, but can you please add a menu item for the popup menu on the desktop to arrange icons in the next possible release...

    The two features of this I'd like to see most are auto-arrange and arrange by file type. This makes life easier for those of us who are anal/organization crazy! :-)

    Thanks!

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 23/1/07 16:57  

  • File a feature request to xfdesktop.

    By Blogger Benedikt Meurer, at 23/1/07 17:29  

  • Thank you for your effort, you guys are like gods of desktop environment. No idea on how you manage to do so much with so little. I love you!

    By Anonymous Radomir Dopieralski, at 23/1/07 20:15  

  • awesome work! I have been stuck with Gnome so far but this release holds lot of promise..Shall try it out once it enters gentoo portage!

    By Blogger KB, at 24/1/07 02:57  

  • Congratulations with the release!
    I'm a happy Xfce 4.4 beta user (Xubuntu 6.10 - hopefully the 4.4 will be in the repositories soon).

    I have been switching between KDE and Gnome for ages now, but I never felt really satisfied with both of them. Xfce 4.4 amazes me every time by its speed and memory usage. I'm very fond of Thunar and the minimalistic yet fully functional approach of it all.

    I'm a computer science student so i tend to have a lot of heavy applications open. Memory is certainly an issue : try to run a j2ee app server + netbeans + firefox and you'll know it.

    So thank you for all the effort you put in xfce. You certainly made me very happy with it!

    By Anonymous Joram, at 26/1/07 21:40  

  • Nice! Thanks for the work.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 31/1/07 18:55  

  • Today I started using xfce (moved to an old&slow machine), upon suggestion of my 10yrs old son, and I'm quite impressed. The only thing I'm missing is the fish:// KDE kioslave. Any possible replacement?
    Thanks a lot for your work.

    By Anonymous pcav, at 31/1/07 19:51  

  • I managed to rebuild a fiesty packages of XFCE 4.4.0 for edgy, and formed them into my repository. I'am personaly immediately migrated to xfce. Great environment.

    By Blogger Rommi, at 4/2/07 20:26  

  • Nice screenshots. Yum yum.

    I wonder if the compositor is an external program, or if it is integrated into the window manager. I also wonder if it requires OpenGL (I assume it doesn't, since Xfce targets older and not-as-powerful computers). I currently use xcompmgr with GNOME, but xcompmgr is old, buggy and unmaintained. Compiz/Beryl/Metacity's compositor, while nice, require more video RAM than I have.

    By Anonymous Marius Gedminas, at 6/2/07 23:47  

  • WOW (this is not yet property of uncle bill from redmond).
    It's fantastic. I use xubuntu 6.10 and was waiting this release

    By Anonymous gorneman, at 9/2/07 12:53  

  • hi
    can you help me
    i got problem with new release of xfce 4.4

    i`ve install xfce 4.4 from xfce4.4-installer.run
    installation process was success

    but i got annoying problem with xfdesktop
    1. when i delete some file at desktop
    the icons still at desktop
    2. when i de-activate right click xfce4 menu at xfce setting manager (desktop setting)
    it result no menu appear at desktop
    it different than xfce4.3.99 (xubuntu 6.10) (show some local menu .. eg. paste create new file, create new folder )

    how can i fix it?
    i have xfce4.4.0-src too

    please help me!
    i`m using slackware 11

    By Anonymous cakri@cs.its.ac.id, at 17/2/07 12:25  

  • Use the xfce mailinglist for these kinds of questions.

    By Blogger Benedikt Meurer, at 17/2/07 12:57  

  • There's information about Xfce 4.4 and Xfce in general and in spanish in Xfce para todos.

    By Blogger El Cerrajero, at 24/2/07 12:24  

  • I like this Desktop Environment a lot, thanks. I'm using it in Xubuntu 7.04 and my computer is fast again and I didn't lose any important functionality or convenience in changing from Gnome :) In fact Gnome apps like Epiphany start faster in Xfce than in Gnome. I love the Xfce file manager and terminal, they open on the k of click.

    Perhaps some power management control interface for laptops is the only thing conspicuously missing

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 21/5/07 15:55  

  • This release has won me for ever!

    By Anonymous James, at 12/10/07 07:36  

  • pcav.. Like you I switched from KDE to XFCE and the first thing I missed the most was fish://.. Well after a couple of weeks I found the alternative that is BY FAR better than using fish. With just a couple of small tweaks I got sshfs + autofs working and now all my ssh directories are automounted and autounmounted without doing anything. Performance is better than fish because it supports compression and all files are much happier because it is a real mount point instead of faking via /tmp. No more fish for me. sshfs is the only way to go.

    By Blogger dmallor, at 19/2/08 04:34  

  • XFCE is the best. It works on anything, anywhere fast. Thank you for your wonderful work.

    By Blogger Joero, at 11/4/08 05:14  

  • Using Xfce with Xubuntu 8.04. Its great. Clean and fast for this 866 Mhz, 384 MB slowpoke. I'll be going to Windows 2000, though. The menu editor is a complete black box to me. It doesn't seem to, well, edit anything important. How long has it been like that!? Surely it can't be that hard! For the love of mousy Tuxes, make the menu editor better, oh Xfce Gods!!

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 13/5/08 05:52  

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