Hi Todd,
Hi Panu,
I do adore Xfce as I can not stand "OS as Playground". The OS
should just get ot of my way and run my programs. I do not care
what the latest picture on the web are. And if I am in the mood
for something multimedia, I will fire up that program and exit
it when I am done with it. Xfce excels at this.
Agreed.
Since I am a computer tech, I just work around all the issues
with Fedora29 and Xfce 4.13. But when I am dealing with
customers, I still use Fedora 28 and Xfce 4.12.
I am a bit surprised at all the bugs in 4.13. I think it
is the buggiest release I have seen.
To be fair, the main maintainer of the Xfce stack asked on this list
whether we should switch to a dev release instead of waiting for the
next stable release. The consensus from the people that replied to
that thread was in favor of upgrading.
I'm not too surprised that Xfce 4.13 would be so buggy because there
are migrating to gtk3 (leading to wayland support I think) and that's
a huge deal for a desktop environment.
So far I've seen one bug I couldn't reproduce in Thunar: the modal
window during an MTP transfer lost track of the transfer and remained
with no associated PID forever (can we call that a Zombie Window?)
I think it's valuable to the Xfce project if bug reports bubble up,
and it seems I've been lucky dodging all the bugs so far.
Dridi