It's been more than a year since the Xfce development team reported on their progress towards the Xfce 4.14 desktop environment release, and, today, one of the developers posted an in-depth story about the latest developments.Xfce 4.14 will be a transitional release where the main goal is to port all of the desktop environment's components to the GTK+ 3 toolkit, just like the MATE team did with the release of the MATE 1.18 desktop environment. For now, the supported GTK+ 3 version appears to be 3.20, but support for GTK+ 3.22 series is coming too.
"GTK+3 minimum version has been bumped to version 3.20 (and maybe 3.22), because of so much changes since gtk 3.14 (broken themes, css), this will remove a lot of ifdef maze and code complexity to support several gtk versions. By the time of 4.14 release, all major distributions will have gtk>3.20," said the dev.
And the good news we want to share with you today is that almost all of Xfce's core components were successf... (read more)
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