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meandean

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## thoughts on xfce 4.8

Sun Jan 22, 2012 3:33 pm

Just trying out 4.8 on refracta to see what I think of it.
It still has the odd single click thunar but double click desktop. You would think that would be an easy fix to have xfdesktop pick up on the thunar setting but I guess not. Aggravating!
It must be using gvfs/policykit/dbus/etc as partitions are listed in the side pane of thunar now and a single click brings up a authorization box all nice and neato. Very nice for us lazy tech types but not sure what a regular user will think of having partitions listed on the side.
Thunar has a link for 'network' which should prove handy as well. I did not try it but I think it is a good thing for regular users and even tech types (lazy ones like me) may find it useful.
Drag and drop to create launchers. My kids can finally create a shortcut on the panel without asking me how to do it. Good thing!
I like the directory menu plugin. Very useful I think.
It uses tumblerd for image thumbnails in thunar. Seems to use a good bit of cpu power to create thumbnails and always seems to be using a chunk of memory even when not creating thumbnails. Aggravating! Someone needs to look at the rox code and see how they handle thumbnail creation.
I think I like 4.8 more than 4.6 and I will probably upgrade the kids systems.
Have you tried out xfce 4.8 and if so what did you think about it?
nadir

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## Re: thoughts on xfce 4.8

Sun Jan 22, 2012 10:23 pm

I use it since it is in Sid (not sure how long, a few months i guess).
In the beginnig it was a bit different, but now it is good (the change was not as big as gnome2->3 or kde3->4, but for me it was still unusual).
What bugs me a bit is that there is a delay if i try to open the apps menu when right-clicking on the desktop (strange enough it is only the first time, after that it starts normal).

> Drag and drop to create launchers. My kids can finally create a shortcut on the panel without asking me how to do it. Good thing!

Learn a new thing every day I did not know it, tested it with geany, and boom: there the icon is. Very cool.
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