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nsw42

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Registered: 2010-01-12

Posts: 36

dummy question: xfce and gnome?

Hello there,

now that gnome released version 3 of their product ... I somewhat fear that they will abandon any 2.x efforts.
I think gnome is not exactly famous for fixing bugs - especially in outdated releases.

So, now my question: will that be a problem for xfce? In the sense of: components of gnome being
used within xfce ... that will no longer be maintained?

Or is xfce in that sense completely independent of gnome; and therefore no problems to be expected?

greetings,
nsw42

escapingsummer

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From: D.C. Metro Area

Registered: 2010-12-14

Posts: 34

Re: dummy question: xfce and gnome?

Xfce does share the GTK toolkit which gnome uses, however for the most part it wouldn't have a major effect on us. Applets for the gnome panel that you use under Xfapplet may become unmaintained since gnome has adopted a new interface but other programs should run normally. The only major roadblock I could see would be a future GDM release causing a problem, in which case Xfce users could switch to slim, lxdm, or another display manager of their choice.

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escapingsummer

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From: D.C. Metro Area

Registered: 2010-12-14

Posts: 34

Re: dummy question: xfce and gnome?

By the way if you are interested in what the future holds for Xfce (to perhaps calm your fears) here is a link to the road map for 4.10

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"True sophistication and ingenuity comes from trying to solve complicated things by the simplest of means."

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