< Features
Feature Name
Xfce46
Summary
Update Xfce to the upstream 4.6 release with many new improvements and features.
Owner
- Name: Kevin Fenzi
- email: kevin@tummy.com
Current status
- Targeted release: Fedora 11
- Last updated: (DATE)
- Percentage of completion: 25%
Detailed Description
The Xfce project has been working on a new version, 4.6 for quite a while now. Currently they have a Beta2 release available. The final release is currently estimated around Jan 10th, 2009. This should give time for polishing and bugfixing before F11 is released.
Benefit to Fedora
Xfce 4.6 has a number of improvements and new features. A few of the more notable ones:
- new libxfce4menu that follows the freedesktop.org menu standards
- new Xconf configuration system, which replaces the mcs system in use since 4.0.0
- new settings dialogs
- many bugfixes and enhancements to xfdesktop, including monitor hot plugging support.
- new xfce4-mixer with support for pulseaudio and multiple sound cards.
Scope
Existing packages will need to be updated to 4.6 in rawhide. Two new packages will need to be reviewed and imported:
- libxfce4menu - See review bug: Bugzilla: 477839
- xfconf - See review bug: Bugzilla: 477732
How To Test
New installs:
- install rawhide/F11 on any machine.
- yum groupinstall 'XFCE'
- 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.
- confirm xfce4-mixer starts and can manage any sound card(s).
(More specifics can be added when final changelogs are available)
User Experience
Users should see additional functionality and features available from the Xfce desktop.
Dependencies
In addition to the core Xfce packages, all the xfce plugins packages will need to be rebuild and updated. Work will be coordinated with the plugins maintainer.
Contingency Plan
Revert to older Xfce 4.4 version. This may require a Epoch and rebuilding packages and plugins.
Documentation
http://wiki.xfce.org/releng/4.6/general-info http://wiki.xfce.org/releng/4.6/milestones http://www.xfce.org/about/news?id=18 http://www.xfce.org/about/news?id=16 http://www.xfce.org/about/news?id=15
Release Notes
Xfce has been updated to version 4.6. This version includes many enhancements and bug fixes.
Comments and Discussion