What's new in Xfce for F25?

[Justin W. Flory]

Hello all,

This email is being sent on behalf of the Marketing team in regards to 
the upcoming Fedora 25 release.

We're in the process of generating talking points…

     https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_25_talking_points

…about what all is new in the different editions and spins of Fedora. As 
members of the Xfce SIG, we would like to know what all is new and 
coming up in the latest versions of Xfce for F25. A few bullet points 
about anything that's new is all that's needed. This can be added 
directly to the wiki page or you can reply to this email with the 
information, and we'll add them to the wiki.

If you have info or knowledge about what's new in Xfce, please let us 
know in time for the Alpha release announcement - if emailing, please 
reply to the Marketing list or email me directly. Thanks all!

-- 
Cheers,
Justin W. Flory
jflory7(a)gmail.com

[Kevin Fenzi]

On Thu, 25 Aug 2016 14:31:30 -0400
"Justin W. Flory" <jflory7(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:

>  Hello all,
>  
>  This email is being sent on behalf of the Marketing team in regards
>  to the upcoming Fedora 25 release.
>  
>  We're in the process of generating talking points…
>  
>       https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_25_talking_points
>  
>  …about what all is new in the different editions and spins of Fedora.
>  As members of the Xfce SIG, we would like to know what all is new and 
>  coming up in the latest versions of Xfce for F25. A few bullet points 
>  about anything that's new is all that's needed. This can be added 
>  directly to the wiki page or you can reply to this email with the 
>  information, and we'll add them to the wiki.
>  
>  If you have info or knowledge about what's new in Xfce, please let us 
>  know in time for the Alpha release announcement - if emailing, please 
>  reply to the Marketing list or email me directly. Thanks all! 
So, not much major is new. The Xfce version is still 4.12. 

However, a few minor things: 

* xfce4-terminal has been ported to gtk3 and vte291. Lots of bugfixes,
  support for unlimited scrollback buffer, support for magnet links,
  zooming, and tons of translation updates. 

* xfce4-power-manager has been updated with a bunch of bugfixes and
  translation updates. 

* xfce4-notifyd has been ported to gtk3 and has better theming
  capabilities. 

* The Xfce live now contains firefox

Thats all I can think of off hand. :) 

kevin

[ToddAndMargo]

On 08/25/2016 01:54 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
>  On Thu, 25 Aug 2016 14:31:30 -0400
>  "Justin W. Flory" <jflory7(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
>
> > Hello all,
> >
> > This email is being sent on behalf of the Marketing team in regards
> > to the upcoming Fedora 25 release.
> >
> > We're in the process of generating talking points…
> >
> >       https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_25_talking_points
> >
> > …about what all is new in the different editions and spins of Fedora.
> > As members of the Xfce SIG, we would like to know what all is new and
> > coming up in the latest versions of Xfce for F25. A few bullet points
> > about anything that's new is all that's needed. This can be added
> > directly to the wiki page or you can reply to this email with the
> > information, and we'll add them to the wiki.
> >
> > If you have info or knowledge about what's new in Xfce, please let us
> > know in time for the Alpha release announcement - if emailing, please
> > reply to the Marketing list or email me directly. Thanks all!
>  So, not much major is new. The Xfce version is still 4.12.
>
>  However, a few minor things:
>
>  * xfce4-terminal has been ported to gtk3 and vte291. Lots of bugfixes,
>     support for unlimited scrollback buffer, support for magnet links,
>     zooming, and tons of translation updates.
>
>  * xfce4-power-manager has been updated with a bunch of bugfixes and
>     translation updates.
>
>  * xfce4-notifyd has been ported to gtk3 and has better theming
>     capabilities.
>
>  * The Xfce live now contains firefox
>
>  Thats all I can think of off hand. :)
>
>  kevin 
Is there an ISO for us to play with yet?

[Kevin Fenzi]

On Thu, 25 Aug 2016 14:13:51 -0700
ToddAndMargo <ToddAndMargo(a)zoho.com&gt; wrote:

>  
>  Is there an ISO for us to play with yet? 
There's nightly branched and rawhide ones: 

https://www.happyassassin.net/nightlies.html

and f25 alpha comes out next tuesday. 

kevin

[Justin W. Flory]

On 08/25/2016 04:54 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
>  * xfce4-terminal has been ported to gtk3 and vte291. Lots of
> bugfixes,
>    support for unlimited scrollback buffer, support for magnet links,
>    zooming, and tons of translation updates. 
>  
>  * xfce4-power-manager has been updated with a bunch of bugfixes and
>    translation updates. 
>  
>  * xfce4-notifyd has been ported to gtk3 and has better theming
>    capabilities. 
>  
>  * The Xfce live now contains firefox 
Hmm, somehow this was filtered to my junk folder...

Thanks for these updates, Kevin!! I just added these to the wiki page
for F25. Curious, what do xfce4-power-manager and xfce4-notifyd do? I
assume for former is for managing laptop batteries and/or UPS units,
while the latter is for the desktop notifications that Xfce has, right?

-- 
Cheers,
Justin W. Flory
jflory7(a)gmail.com

[Kevin Fenzi]

On Tue, 6 Sep 2016 19:55:44 -0400
"Justin W. Flory" <jflory7(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:

>  On 08/25/2016 04:54 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
>  > * xfce4-terminal has been ported to gtk3 and vte291. Lots of
>  > bugfixes, support for unlimited scrollback buffer, support for
>  > magnet links, zooming, and tons of translation updates. 
>  > 
>  > * xfce4-power-manager has been updated with a bunch of bugfixes and
>  >   translation updates. 
>  > 
>  > * xfce4-notifyd has been ported to gtk3 and has better theming
>  >   capabilities. 
>  > 
>  > * The Xfce live now contains firefox  
>  
>  Hmm, somehow this was filtered to my junk folder... 
Oops. ;( Wonder why?

>  Thanks for these updates, Kevin!! I just added these to the wiki
> page
>  for F25. Curious, what do xfce4-power-manager and xfce4-notifyd do? I
>  assume for former is for managing laptop batteries and/or UPS units,
>  while the latter is for the desktop notifications that Xfce has,
>  right? 
Yep. Exactly. 

kevin

[Kevin Fenzi]

On Tue, 6 Sep 2016 15:59:49 -0700
ToddAndMargo <ToddAndMargo(a)zoho.com&gt; wrote:

>  Any issues with Wayland? 
>  
>  Is there an upgrade path from X11 to Wayland
>  if we upgrade from FC24?  Or do we have to
>  do a full reinstall? 
Xfce has no wayland support at all. It will keep using X11 for the time
being. 

With the next release (4.14) things will be ported over to gtk3, so
from there it may not be too long a jump to wayland support, but it's
not planned for 4.14 and 4.14 has no specific release date anyhow. 

kevin