XFce Desktop 4 Released 261
BladeMelbourne writes "After thorough RC testing, version 4.0 of my favourite 'lite' desktop environment has been released. Sporting purty eye candy, XFce is leaps and bounds ahead of the legacy XFce 3.8.18 release, whilst retaining it's performance.
Release notes are available, as well as binary and source packages. Bring that PII back to life!" While it may not have all the bells and whistles, it's pretty clean looking.
Any experience with this on a slow computer ? (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:lighter is better (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Cutest logo (Score:3, Interesting)
Fwiw i've been using XFCE4 for about 3 months now. I finally made the step up from Windowmaker or Blackbox to a "huge" Desktop Environment
Re:lighter is better (Score:3, Interesting)
My laptop? Blackbox. Small, sweet, sexy.
My workstation? KDE3. My workstation has the beef to handle running it and anything else at the same time. Plus, there's the aesthetic advantage.
I'm not talking about crazy eyecandy and sickening animated whatnots; rather, everything looks like it belongs on the desktop. I open up the mail program, it looks and feels the same as the browser. Et cetera.
Can't really get that on 'light' wm's without all sorts of crazy hax0ring. (Or, installing a 'heavy' desktop environment and just using the apps.)
Re:Any experience with this on a slow computer ? (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:lighter is better (Score:1, Interesting)
Personally, all i want is very little. Small title bar and window dressings, no icons (wtf are they for???), no "start up bar", and tabbed windows so i dont need twenty million separate windows and/or icons. My window dressings are so small they fit with everything else. My mail client (and most everything i do, minus web browsing) is via terminal windows, so my text can fit with anything. pekwm satisfies my needs.
Re:Does it support a scrolling viewport? (Score:3, Interesting)
I just never use "minimise"
Re:lighter is better (Score:3, Interesting)
XFCE4 uses the Gnome theme settings, so once you set the theme in XFCE, then Evolution, etc, all look the same. You can then set a similar theme in kcontrol for KDE, and everything looks unified.
And BTW, I'm runnning this lightweight WM on a Dual Athlon 2600+ with a Gig of ram, and I can still feel the speed difference between it and KDE/Gnome. Regardless of the speed, my favorite feature is switching desktops with the scroll wheel.
How about Cygwin support? (Score:3, Interesting)
So, is it available for Cygwin yet? In other words - is it buildable and workable?
very cool (Score:3, Interesting)