The History of XFCE
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The History of XFCE
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Re: The History of XFCE
I remember the first time I heard about XFCE, it was back in my exclusive Slackware days around 2001'ish. It was based on GTK+ 1.2, which had fugly dialogs and stuff but I loved light weight GTK+ apps, so I was excited for it. It compiled easily and was great, right out of the box. XFCE was more like CDE back then (and I still use similar panel and launcher configuration to this day). XFCE 3 back then had a default sound scheme that made a bunch of various reverberating boingy sounds when you clicked things... I couldn't bring myself to disable it, it was so funny.
I'm still using XFCE 4.18 though, divorced from Arch packaging and Gentoo ebuilds with only the parts of it I want. I don't want the new one. It took me many years to get off 4.12. For my main UI, I don't want change (and breakage of my beautiful style because they have removed things).
I'm still using XFCE 4.18 though, divorced from Arch packaging and Gentoo ebuilds with only the parts of it I want. I don't want the new one. It took me many years to get off 4.12. For my main UI, I don't want change (and breakage of my beautiful style because they have removed things).