Xfce 4.8 for F14 now ready

[Christoph Wickert]

Am Donnerstag, den 10.03.2011, 15:25 -0800 schrieb suvayu ali:

> 1. I got dependency problems with the user switching plugin.
> 
> --> Processing Dependency: libxfce4panel.so.1()(64bit) for package:
> xfce4-xfswitch-plugin-0.0.1-1.fc12.x86_64
> --> Finished Dependency Resolution
> Error: Package: xfce4-xfswitch-plugin-0.0.1-1.fc12.x86_64 (@fedora/$releasever)
>            Requires: libxfce4panel.so.1()(64bit)
>            Removing: xfce4-panel-4.6.4-1.fc14.x86_64 (@fedora/$releasever)
>                libxfce4panel.so.1()(64bit)
>            Updated By: xfce4-panel-4.8.2-1.fc14.x86_64 (fedora-xfce-4.8)
>                Not found

Thanks for the pointer, an updated xfswitch plugin is indeed missing
from the repo. I'll fix it.

> 2. The Action button with both buttons activated show up with both
>    buttons aligned vertically even though my panel is horizontal. For
>    now I have worked around it by having two action buttons side by
>    side.

I complained about this already, but upstream thinks it's a feature:
http://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7074

> 3. Some of the tray icons seem very crude. My top panel (36 pixels wide)
>    used to display very smooth and nice looking icons for the
>    xfce4-power-manager and gnome-volume-control-applet. But they are now
>    replaced with these "cruder" icons.

Can you give us a screenshot?

> 4. I used to have one floating panel (with the tray and clock) and a
>    fixed panel. Now it seems there is no way to have a floating panel.
>    The previously floating panel seem to be blocking the windows from
>    going completely fullscreen.

I think this is intended, but you can file bug in Xfce bugzilla.

Regards,
Christoph