Changes/xfce-4.18

Xfce-4.18

Summary

Xfce 4.18 is a stable release with proven components, provide features to both new and power users alike. This change proposal is submitted to sync fedora packages with the latest upstream release.

Owners

• Name: Mukundan Ragavan, Kevin Fenzi
• Email: nonamedotc@fedoraproject.org, kevin@scrye.com

Current status

• Targeted release: Fedora 38
• Last updated: 2023-01-09
• devel thread
• FESCo issue: #2925
• Tracker bug: <will be assigned by the Wrangler>
• Release notes tracker: <will be assigned by the Wrangler>

Detailed Description

This change migrates Xfce desktop environment (DE) to the latest version provided by upstream developers. This release brings, amongst others, the following features

• client-side decorations
• fractional scaling
• new status tray plugins
• Streamlined application chooser (i.e. merged "mime type editor" and "default applications")

Full feature list can be viewed at [1] and [2]

Benefit to Fedora

Updating Xfce to 4.18 will provide Fedora Xfce users stable but latest versions of upstream software. We will also be able to provide timely bug fixes.

Scope

• Proposal owners:
  • Update core xfce packages to 4.18
  • Rebuild plugins once core packages are build

• Other developers: N/A (not a System Wide Change)

• Release engineering: [3] (a check of an impact with Release Engineering is needed) -->
  • List of deliverables: N/A (not a System Wide Change)

• Policies and guidelines: N/A (not a System Wide Change)

• Trademark approval: N/A (not needed for this Change)

Upgrade/compatibility impact

N/A (not a System Wide Change)

How To Test

N/A (not a System Wide Change)

User Experience

• A fresh install should have fully functional Xfce DE
• Upgrade from Fedora 37 or older should be mostly seamless

No special configuration or hardware needed.

Dependencies

N/A (not a System Wide Change)

Contingency Plan

• Contingency mechanism: (What to do? Who will do it?) N/A (not a System Wide Change)

• Contingency deadline: N/A (not a System Wide Change)

• Blocks release? N/A (not a System Wide Change)

• Blocks product? N/A (not a System Wide Change)

Documentation

N/A (not a System Wide Change)

Release Notes

Fedora 38 ships with Xfce 4.18.