Re: Xfce 4.13 took it on the chin in FC29

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On 11/7/18 4:25 PM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
> On 11/7/18 4:21 PM, Richard England wrote:
>> On 11/7/18 12:12 PM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
>>> On 11/6/18 11:54 PM, Marco Guazzone wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Nov 5, 2018 at 8:13 AM ToddAndMargo via users
>>>> <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>> <mailto:users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>     On 11/3/18 11:33 AM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
>>>>      > Hi All,
>>>>      >
>>>>      > Four machines upgraded to Fedora 29, two to go.  The
>>>>      > last two are servers, so they are going to wait a bit.
>>>>      >
>>>>      > :-)
>>>>      >
>>>>      > Xfce 4.13 sure took it on the chin.  I just open up
>>>>      >
>>>>      >
>>>>      > launcher panels no longer scale
>>>>      > https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14828
>>>>      >
>>>>      > xfce4-about 4.13 thinks it is 4.12
>>>>      > https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14827
>>>>      >
>>>>      > xfce4-about 4.13 is missing from settings
>>>>      > https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14829
>>>>      >
>>>>      > panel icon size ignored on pop up
>>>>      > https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14830
>>>>      >
>>>>      > mailing list is down
>>>>      > https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14831
>>>>      >
>>>>
>>>>     And one more:
>>>>
>>>>     black background on panel icons
>>>>     https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14842
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I also experienced some problems with XFCE 4.13 in Fedora 29:
>>>> - weird colors in the workspace switcher (it is difficult to
>>>> understand what is the current workspace)
>>>> - icons in systray do not fit well
>>>> - windows sometimes forget their maximization status: if a window is
>>>> maximized and then "unmaximized", sometimes that window remains
>>>> maximized (currently, this happened only with xfce-terminal)
>>>> - some apps has strange behaviour; for instance, the welcome screen
>>>> of AndroidStudio does not appear at the center of the screen and the
>>>> menu of the AndroidStudio window looks shifted towards the left
>>>> - the XFCE's Applications Menu takes long to appear the first time
>>>>
>>>> Best,
>>>>
>>>> Marco
>>>
>>> Libre Office 6 Calc "blinks" at me every two second, until
>>> I activate a cell
>>>
>>> Inkscape won't allow me to resize a windowed window until
>>> I double click on the title bar at the top.
>>>
>>> And the Xfce mailing list is down.  Maybe they got tired of the
>>> bitching.
>>>
>>> Do you know of any Xfce like alternatives?
>>>
>>>
>> MATE spin perhaps?  Not exactly like xfce and a bit heavier but it is
>> a fork of Gnome 2, I believe.
>>
>>
>> ~~R
> 
> I will live USB it.  Thank you!
> 
> I must have put seven bugs into Xfce and not a peep out of them.
> I wonder if the project is dead?  If so, it is a pity.  I really
> like Xfce.

It's certainly not dead. The forum is pretty active.
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