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1 Xfce 4.10 Pre 2 Review
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3 :author: Aaron Ball
4 :email: nullspoon@iohq.net
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8 Four days ago on April 14, 2012, http://xfce.org[Xfce] 4.10 pre 2
9 http://xfce.org/about/news/?post=1334361600[was released]. It's been a while
10 since 4.8 was released, so let's see how it's going.
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12 I'll just start out with this summary. Overall I'm not super impressed
13 with this release so far. Don't get me wrong, I'm very excited for the
14 release and I completely support the Xfce guys. They're doing good work.
15 My only real complaint for this release is simply the amount that came
16 with it. There just doesn't seem to be that much new stuff. There were a
17 lot of bug fixes and translation updates though and for the most most
18 part, it's pretty stable.
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20 Now, with that out of the way, let's take a look at a few screenshots of some
21 new stuff I found. Before we do that though, I'm using the Orta theme with the
22 AwokenWhite icons. Additionally, my panel is set to alpha 0, so the fancy
23 integration into my background is not a part of Xfce 4.10.
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25 Alright, now to screenshots
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28 image:files/00-desktop.jpg[height=400,link="files/00-desktop.jpg"]
29 Here we've got just a view of the desktop. Nothing notably different here other
30 than the top right where the you can see the blurred out text. That would be my
31 username. We now have a user actions widget.
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35 image:files/02-xfce-user-actions.jpg[height=300,link="files/02-xfce-user-actions.jpg"]
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37 So here is the user actions button. There are more settings to add more stuff
38 to this menu. I'm just using the default.
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43 image:files/01-xfce-settings.jpg[height=400,link="files/01-xfce-settings.jpg"]
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45 Here is the Settings window. The Xfce devs have added categorization to it now.
46 You'll also notice at the bottom the "Settings Editor". That's kind of like
47 Gnome's gconftool. It seems to have granular settings for Xfce. Most of them
48 are just settings you can edit through the Settings dialog.
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52 image:files/03-xfce-window-resize-hot-edge.jpg[height=400,link="files/03-xfce-windows-resize-hot-edge.jpg"]
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54 And finally we have some functionality that I've been hoping for for some time
55 now. Hot edges for resizing windows. Here I drug the terminal to the top and it
56 auto resized to half of my screen. I drug the file manager to the bottom and it
57 resized to half of the bottom of my screen. It also works on the left and right
58 sides, but for that you have to set your workspace count to one unfortunately.
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62 Category:Linux
63 Category:XFCE
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