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Xfce 4.8
Summary
Update Xfce to the upstream 4.8 release with many new improvements and features.
Owners
- Names: Kevin Fenzi, Christoph Wickert
- email: kevin@tummy.com, cwickert@fedoraproject.org
Current status
- Targeted release: Fedora 15
- Last updated: 2010-11-03
- Percentage of completion: 10%
Detailed Description
The Xfce project has been working on a new version, 4.8 for quite a while now.
The Xfce 4.8 schedule is currently estimated to have a release on 2011-01-16.
Benefit to Fedora
Xfce 4.8 has a number of improvements and new features. A few of the more notable ones:
- Xfce menu will support menu merging.
- (Hopefully) bring back the graphical menu editor known from Xfce 4.4
- Thunar is ported from thunar-vfs to gvfs
- PolicyKit support in xfce4-session
- Multilib enhancements for xfce4-panel plugins.
Scope
Existing packages will need to be updated to 4.8 in rawhide.
All needed packages are already reviewed and in rawhide, but will need to be updated to the new 4.8 versions.
Two packages will need to be Obsoleted and blocked from Fedora 14:
- libxfce4menu (replaecd by garcon)
- libxfcegui4 (replaced by libxfce4ui)
At least the following will need to be updated:
- libxfce4ui
- xfce4-settings
- exo
- libxfce4util
- xfce-utils
- xfce4-appfinder
- xfce4-panel
- xfce4-session
How To Test
New installs:
- install rawhide/Fedora 15 on any machine.
- yum install @xfce-desktop
- confirm gdm offers Xfce4 as a session type
- confirm you can select this session and login
- confirm settings changes can be made and saved, and are found after a logout/login cycle.
- confirm day to day desktop functions are working.
- confirm all settings dialogs come up and work.
(More specifics can be added when final changelogs are available)
Updates:
- confirm yum groupupdate 'XFCE' works and all packages are properly updated/obsoleted.
- confirm the updated desktop works fine.
User Experience
- FIXME
Dependencies
- FIXME
Contingency Plan
Revert to older Xfce 4.6 version. This may require a Epoch and rebuilding packages and plugins. Or if the dist-f14-xfce tag has not yet been merged back into rawhide, only reverts in cvs will be required.
Documentation
- FIXME
Release Notes
- Xfce has been updated to version 4.8. This version includes many enhancements and bug fixes. See the tour at http://www.xfce.org/about/tour for more information.