On 11/7/18 4:25 PM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
> On 11/7/18 4:21 PM, Richard England wrote:
>> On 11/7/18 12:12 PM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
>>> On 11/6/18 11:54 PM, Marco Guazzone wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Nov 5, 2018 at 8:13 AM ToddAndMargo via users
>>>> <users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
>>>> <mailto:users@lists.fedoraproject.org>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 11/3/18 11:33 AM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
>>>> > Hi All,
>>>> >
>>>> > Four machines upgraded to Fedora 29, two to go. The
>>>> > last two are servers, so they are going to wait a bit.
>>>> >
>>>> > :-)
>>>> >
>>>> > Xfce 4.13 sure took it on the chin. I just open up
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> > launcher panels no longer scale
>>>> >
https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14828
>>>> >
>>>> > xfce4-about 4.13 thinks it is 4.12
>>>> >
https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14827
>>>> >
>>>> > xfce4-about 4.13 is missing from settings
>>>> >
https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14829
>>>> >
>>>> > panel icon size ignored on pop up
>>>> >
https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14830
>>>> >
>>>> > mailing list is down
>>>> >
https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14831
>>>> >
>>>>
>>>> And one more:
>>>>
>>>> black background on panel icons
>>>>
https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14842
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I also experienced some problems with XFCE 4.13 in Fedora 29:
>>>> - weird colors in the workspace switcher (it is difficult to
>>>> understand what is the current workspace)
>>>> - icons in systray do not fit well
>>>> - windows sometimes forget their maximization status: if a window is
>>>> maximized and then "unmaximized", sometimes that window
remains
>>>> maximized (currently, this happened only with xfce-terminal)
>>>> - some apps has strange behaviour; for instance, the welcome screen
>>>> of AndroidStudio does not appear at the center of the screen and the
>>>> menu of the AndroidStudio window looks shifted towards the left
>>>> - the XFCE's Applications Menu takes long to appear the first time
>>>>
>>>> Best,
>>>>
>>>> Marco
>>>
>>> Libre Office 6 Calc "blinks" at me every two second, until
>>> I activate a cell
>>>
>>> Inkscape won't allow me to resize a windowed window until
>>> I double click on the title bar at the top.
>>>
>>> And the Xfce mailing list is down. Maybe they got tired of the
>>> bitching.
>>>
>>> Do you know of any Xfce like alternatives?
>>>
>>>
>> MATE spin perhaps? Not exactly like xfce and a bit heavier but it is
>> a fork of Gnome 2, I believe.
>>
>>
>> ~~R
>
> I will live USB it. Thank you!
>
> I must have put seven bugs into Xfce and not a peep out of them.
> I wonder if the project is dead? If so, it is a pity. I really
> like Xfce.
It's certainly not dead. The forum is pretty active.
Their mailing list is complete dead.
I universally do not like forums as they are so cumbersome to use.
Maybe Xfce has dropped their mailing list?