Xfce status report

[Olivier Duchateau]

Hi,

Below, status report concerning the Xfce project under FreeBSD.

There were no major updates in ports tree, except cosmetic changes (fix pkg-plist, switch to USES= libtool, etc.).

But, the Xfce team continues to keep each piece of the Xfce Desktop up to date. That's why we're working on the next stable release (no date scheduled).

Major changes will be:

* Switch to USES
* Support of GTK2 (default toolkits) and GTK3 (optional)
* GNOME like default icons theme
* Enhance documentation (handbooks, FAQ)

Below list of current ports in your devel repository [1].

* deskutils/xfce4-xkb-plugin 0.7.0
* devel/xfce4-dev-tools 4.11.0
* misc/xfce4-appfinder 4.11.0
* multimedia/xfce4-parole 0.6.1 and 0.7.0
* sysutils/garcon 0.3.0
* sysutils/xfce4-settings 4.11.3
* x11/libxfce4menu 4.11.1
* x11/libxfce4util 4.11.0
* x11-wm/xfce4-desktop 4.11.8
* x11-wm/xfce4-panel 4.11.1
* x11-wm/xfce4-session 4.11.0

xfce4-power-manager is not finished (I rewrite ACPI helper).

There're also two new ports

* deskutils/xfce4-volumed-pulse 0.2.0
* x11/xfce4-dashboard 0.2.3 and 0.3.2

For more details, please see our wiki page [2].

I also made short video [3], which shows significant changes.

Regards

[1] http://www.redports.org/browser/olivierd/xfce4
[2] https://wiki.freebsd.org/Xfce
[3] https://people.freebsd.org/~olivierd/xfce4-4.11-screencast.webm

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olivier