Manjaro Xfce 0.8.11 release candidate

Korrode · 2014-11-15 17:04:38

Hello Xfce Community!

Today we have out our first release candidate for the 0.8.11 Manjaro Xfce installation media.

We strive to offer an elegant, functional and leading-edge Xfce experience and would be very happy to hear feedback from the Xfce community prior to the final release.

Our installation ISO's provide a live environment so they can be easily tested without needing to install the OS to your hard drive. They are also compatible with common virtual machine softwares.

More details can be found here:
https://forum.manjaro.org/index.php?topic=18122

Looking forward to hearing your thoughts.

- Rob McCathie
- Manjaro Team

Update: Second release candidate out. Link updated.

Last edited by Korrode (2014-11-22 19:14:05)

ToZ · 2014-11-15 17:42:25

Thanks for the update. Going to try to take it for a spin this weekend.

Jerry3904 · 2014-11-15 18:04:40

Me too--that sounds exciting.

ToZ · 2014-11-16 18:45:41

Looks really good - nicely polished showcase of Xfce:

(I fiddled a bit with the default configuration).

I especially liked the fact that your default theme and icon set are GTK3.14 compatible - a nice touch.
Thumbs-up for pamac. A nice addition to Arch-based systems.

For feedback, a couple of things that I noticed:
- tumbler generates error messages regarding raw and odf thumbnails. You need to install libopenraw and libgsf to silence them and provide thumbnails for those files.
- there is another message about a missing adwaita theme engine (see screenshot).

Good work. Congrats to you and your team.

sixsixfive · 2014-11-16 19:29:33

Seems you are using the pixmap engine for your default theme: so you should either patch gtk to use real transparency: http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/ … tent=77783 or use another engine like mist to fix those ugly insensitive images(eg: https://github.com/sixsixfive/themes/bl … ontfixes.c )

Korrode · 2014-11-20 01:02:32

ToZ wrote:

Looks really good - nicely polished showcase of Xfce:
http://en.zimagez.com/miniature/manjaro5.png
(I fiddled a bit with the default configuration).
I especially liked the fact that your default theme and icon set are GTK3.14 compatible - a nice touch.
Thumbs-up for pamac. A nice addition to Arch-based systems.
For feedback, a couple of things that I noticed:
- tumbler generates error messages regarding raw and odf thumbnails. You need to install libopenraw and libgsf to silence them and provide thumbnails for those files.
- there is another message about a missing adwaita theme engine (see screenshot).
Good work. Congrats to you and your team.

Thanks ToZ, we're addressing both issues you've raised. smile

sixsixfive wrote:

Seems you are using the pixmap engine for your default theme: so you should either patch gtk to use real transparency: http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/ … tent=77783 or use another engine like mist to fix those ugly insensitive images(eg: https://github.com/sixsixfive/themes/bl … ontfixes.c )

Thanks for the feedback sixsixfive, we're looking into this.

EDIT Actually sixsixfive, can you give me a good example of what you mean when you say "ugly insensitive images"?

Last edited by Korrode (2014-11-20 01:07:09)

sixsixfive · 2014-11-20 07:47:42

Korrode wrote:

can you give me a good example of what you mean when you say "ugly insensitive images"?

look closer at the insensitive/disabled thunar forward and backward buttons http://www.paradoxcomputers.com.au/manj … 1-busy.jpg

also here an example: the first one uses the mist gtk2 engine to display images the second one crux wich does not support transparency

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Also I can see you use a custom icon theme and I hope you don't use it as your default installed theme since the firefox icon for exampe is/looks like a trademark infringement

see here for more details (faenza icon theme):

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1005464
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrepo … bug=760676

but not sure how arch is handling this and I'm not a lawyer

Last edited by sixsixfive (2014-11-20 08:27:45)

Korrode · 2014-11-22 17:25:47

Thanks for the feedback both of you. smile

RC2 media has been released.
https://forum.manjaro.org/index.php?topic=18122

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