Xfce 4.8 for F14 now ready
Adam Miller
maxamillion at fedoraproject.org
Mon Mar 7 14:56:48 UTC 2011
On Sun, Mar 06, 2011 at 03:46:17PM -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> 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
I'm with Kevin, thanks so much!!!! :D
-AdamM
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