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.
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