On Wed, 22 Feb 2017 10:49:16 -0600 [email protected] wrote:
> Heads up . . . the entire Xfce4 stack is moving to GTK3: > > https://blog.alteroot.org/articles/2016-04-12/road-to-xfce-4.14.html > > golinux Hopefully, the kind of people no-thankyouing systemd started forming migration plans away from xfce a long time ago. For the past several years xfce has had gratuitous dependency and entanglement with dbus. Even back in xfce's "good old days", it had lots of iffy behaviors you needed to work around. Xfce rose to prominence as a Gnome alternative when Gnome2 became the infathomable Gnome3, gaining a "light" reputation based on comparisons to Gnome3, KDE and Unity. But it's actually quite bloaty, and like most bloaty software, it has all sorts of nooks and crannies for bugs and unexpected behaviors to hide in. People who prefer controlling their computer to having their computer control them are moving more and more to lightweight GOSFUIs (Graphical OS Facing User Interface) like lxde, lxqt, jwm, fvwm, dwm, Windowmaker, Icewm, TWM, OpenBox, as well as a raft of tiling GUSFUIs, not because their computers are short on resources, but because the more libraries a GOSFUI depends on, the more likely one will go to the dark side (unbreakable corporate control of the user experience), requiring the GOSFUI to follow. With golinux on our side, we have the opportunity to make absolutely any GOSFUI look great and interface in a Devuan-expected manner. I'd suggest that Jessie be the last Devuan that has xfce as its default GOSFUI. SteveT Steve Litt February 2017 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times http://www.troubleshooters.com/thrive _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
