Fedora 29 Self-Contained Change: xfce 4.1
== Summary ==
Xfce desktop environment has utilized GTK-2 up until version 4.12.x
which is currently available in Fedora. Significant work has been
completed to migrate the DE to GTK-3 completely. The obvious benefit
to this migration is the use of a modern and actively maintained
toolkit.
Xfce 4.13 is a development release leading up to the eventual 4.14
stable release, however 4.13 components have proven to be very stable,
provide features users want and the 4.14 release is unscheduled
currently. This change proposal is submitted to sync fedora packages
with latest upstream releases.
== Owners ==
* Name: [[User:nonamedotc| Mukundan Ragavan]]
* Email: nonamedotc(a)fedoraproject.org
* Name: [[User:kevin| Kevin Fenzi]]
* Email: kevin(a)scrye.com
== Detailed Description ==
This change mirgrates Xfce desktop evironment (DE) to latest version
provided by upstream developers. This is a near complete GTK-3
migration of the DE.
== Benefit to Fedora ==
Other GTK-based DEs such as cinnamon and MATE have already migrated to
using GTK-3 libraries. This change proposes to migrate the popular
Xfce DE to the latest GTK-3 based versions upstream developers have
released.
This change would result in fewer packages depending on the older
GTK-2 libraries and move Xfce to using a modern toolkit.
== Scope ==
* Proposal owners:
** Update core xfce packages to 4.13
** Rebuild plugins once core packages are build
* Other developers: N/A (not a System Wide Change)
== User Experience ==
* A fresh install should have fully functional Xfce DE
* Upgrade from Fedora 28 or older should show no visible changes to
the end users.
** GTK-3 applications will be better integrated
No special configuration or hardware needed.
== Documentation ==
N/A (not a System Wide Change)
== Release Notes ==
Fedora 29 ships with Xfce 4.13 components. Xfce-4.13 features near
complete GTK-3 migration.
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