Xfce 4.8 for F14 now ready

[Kevin Fenzi]

On Sun, 06 Mar 2011 04:31:51 +0100
Christoph Wickert <christoph.wickert at googlemail.com> wrote:

> I have updated my Xfce 4.8 repository at
> http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/cwickert/xfce-4.8
> and it is fairly complete. Some packages however are now obsolete:
> 
>       * thunar-shares-plugin: dead upstream, would needed to be ported
>         from thunar-vfs to gvfs.
>       * xfce4-remmina-plugin: remmina now has a generic trayicon,
>         however the new version is only available in F15 or my remmina
>         repo at http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/cwickert/remmina
>       * xfce4-stopwatch-plugin: dead upstream, uses old panel API.
>       * xfce4-volstatus-icon: dead upstream, uses HAL. I might revive
> it nevertheless.
>       * xfce4-xfapplet-plugin: dead upstream, uses old gnome-panel API
>         and handles only old bonobo-based applets but not new dbus
> based ones. With gnome-shell there is not much future for panel
>         applets anyway.
> 
> If you can live without these plugins, you are invited to upgrade your
> F14 installation to Xfce 4.8. Please note that you will have to remove
> the plugins before you upgrade because Thunar and xfce4-panel do not
> yet obsolete them. We will do this for F15 Beta and then do more
> upgrade tests in order to provide a smooth upgrade.

Thanks for all the work on this Christoph! ;) 

kevin
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