On Thu, Nov 26, 2020 at 09:02:12PM -0500, Mukundan Ragavan wrote:
Hi all,
xfce 4.16 is expected to be released by the end of the year. I am planning
to submit Xfce 4.16 as a self contained change for Fedora 34.
Sounds great. I was actually meaning to ask about that... :)
Let me know if there's anything I can do to help out.
Before I do that, I would like people to test 4.16 packages on
rawhide. If
you can, please test the 4.16 packages in the COPR below and provide
feedback. Of course, these are not *official* packages. Please respond here
on the mailing list or to me directly.
COPR for Xfce 4.16 -
https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/nonamedotc/xfce-4.16/
In my tests, I have been able to upgrade from F33 xfce 4.14 packages with
very few problems (e.g. orage needs to be removed). It will help me for
folks to test and let me know if there are problems.
Things seem pretty working.
One kinda confusing thing is the new scaling. It has 1x (default) and
1.5x and 2x and custom. Any number I enable > 1 causes the screen
resolution to increase more and more (ie, everything is smaller than
native, not larger). If I set it to 0.5 or 0.6 or so it's usable... and
this kind of makes sense if you think of it wanting to scale a highdpi
resolution to a smaller number. It's just backwards of the gnome way
(where scaling means how much to scale all the UI/screens up).
I'm not sure it's a bug or feature. I guess I can file a bug and see
what folks say.
Otherwise everything seems to work here so far. :)
kevin