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Revision as of 19:57, 14 August 2019
Xfce-4.14
Summary
Xfce desktop environment has version 4.13.x which is currently available in Fedora. Significant work has been completed to migrate the DE to GTK-3 completely. The obvious benefit to this migration is the use of a modern and actively maintained toolkit.
Xfce 4.14 is a stable release with proven components, provide features users. This change proposal is submitted to sync fedora packages with the latest upstream releases.
Owners
- Name: Mukundan Ragavan
- Email: nonamedotc@fedoraproject.org
- Name: Kevin Fenzi
- Email: kevin@scrye.com
- Name: Gerd Pokorra
- Email: gerd@fedoraproject.org
Current status
- Targeted release: Fedora 31
- Last updated: 2019-08-14
- Tracker bug: #1726763
- Release notes tracker: #354
Detailed Description
This change migrates Xfce desktop environment (DE) to the latest version provided by upstream developers. This is a near complete GTK-3 migration of the DE.
Benefit to Fedora
Other GTK-based DEs such as cinnamon and MATE have already migrated to using GTK-3 libraries. This change proposes to migrate the popular Xfce DE to the latest GTK-3 based versions upstream developers have released.
This change would result in fewer packages depending on the older GTK-2 libraries and move Xfce to use a modern toolkit.
Scope
- Proposal owners:
- Update core xfce packages to 4.14
- Rebuild plugins once core packages are build
- Other developers: N/A (not a System Wide Change)
- Release engineering:
- 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 30 or older should show no visible changes to the end users.
- GTK-3 applications will be better integrated
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? product
Documentation
N/A (not a System Wide Change)
Release Notes
Fedora 31 ships with Xfce 4.14.