On Sat, May 25, 2019 at 06:43:49PM +0200, Landry Breuil wrote: > Hi, > > since some years now i've been maintaining x11/xfce4 in the portstree, > with an alternate repo at https://cgit.rhaalovely.net/xfce4/?h=next > tracking upstream devel releases. This repo now contains all the bits > composing 4.14pre1 (cf > https://simon.shimmerproject.org/2019/05/19/xfce-4-14pre1-released/ for > the details, the main thing being of course the complete port to Gtk+3), > the final release being targeted at sometimes during the summer. > > as an upstream developer i've of course been running it during the > development cycle on most of my boxes, but now would be a good time for > other Xfce users on OpenBSD to give it a shot and eventually report some > bugs to https://bugzilla.xfce.org. > > The main OpenBSD-specific change is > https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14722 (needs testing !) > which will make the consolekit/policykit/messagebus dependency > completely optional, allowing an user in the operator group to shutdown > the machine (ie can run the shutdown binary), or suspend/hibernate if in > the wheel group (ie has access to apmdev), instead of relying on 3 > daemons running as root. The previous mode of needing messagebus > running + spawning startxfce4 within consolekit should still work. > > amd64 -current packages for all core xfce pkgs (and some others i'm > using) are available at https://packages.rhaalovely.net/wip/amd64/ > (signed with https://packages.rhaalovely.net/landry-mozilla-pkg.pub) > > barring delays, this should make 6.6, but it's better if it's been > "widely" tested before..
Fwiw, all updated to 4.14pre2, per https://wiki.xfce.org/releng/4.14/xfce_4.14pre2. Feedback & testing still welcome. Landry
