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Xfce 4.16

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Re: Xfce 4.16

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Post by zamalek »

vanderZwan wrote: post #15
cosmotic wrote: post #6

Oh no, those icons. Shadows and depth without perspective looks really awkward. Lots of the icons blend into the background because of low contrast and lack of border or drop shadow. I really liked the tango icons.

Well, I don't have a strong opinion on them myself, but I can offer you some reassurance: this is Linux . There's always at least a few programmers grumpy enough in response to any kind of change that they'll do something about it and provide some option to use the old thing. I'm sure the tango icons will have their own legacy icon theme soon enough, if not already.

There are dozens of icon themes available. They should already mostly work because, according to the post, XFCE has moved to the standardized icon naming.

Re: Xfce 4.16

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Post by ChuckNorris89 »

greggyb wrote: post #63
mrpotato wrote: post #56

I like the xfce look and the xfce specific apps unfortunately I tried using xfce on a dell xps 15 laptop and had problems with screen tearing while scrolling up/down. I never found a fix so ended up on KDE.

xrandr --output --set TearFree on Fixes that on most monitors and display adapters for me.

Wait a second, why wouldn't TearFree be enabled by default?

Are there people who wish to have screen tearing out of the box?

Re: Xfce 4.16

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Post by wayneftw »

December_Stars wrote: post #54

Odd how no one has mentioned the addition of client side decorations. Personally it's a huge dealbreaker for me, I really dislike how they look. It's a shame, because the release and Xfce in general otherwise seems really good. Guess I'll stick to MATE for now.

Maybe there will be an option to disable it?

Re: Xfce 4.16

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Post by Der_Einzige »

Ah, the best non tiling desktop environment on linux just got an update. Nice!

Not slow, not bloated, just a DE as it should be.

The alternatives simply don't work for me. lxde or lxqt are horribly ugly to me.

Re: Xfce 4.16

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Post by adkadskhj »

himujjal wrote: post #9
m8s wrote: post #2

This seems like a ton of work and a great achievement. XFCE, for whatever reason, is always my go to desktop environment and really just "feels like home". Thank you to everyone who contributed.

Curious here. Advantages of XFCE over KDE or Gnome. I use KDE. I need to know from a regular user. VM is not enough.

New Linux user here. I switched from Mac a few months ago and wanted to try out Linux on a spare machine. It's not a beast, but it has a decent graphics card (1060), lots of ram, fast storage, etc. I found GNOME to be shockingly sluggish. KDE was better, but the animations still felt far from clean, snappy, fast.

Eventually i found my way to XFCE because i couldn't make it slow. Everything felt very snappy, no feeling of slow FPS.

That's about it for me, honestly. I haven't configured it much, yet. I use the desktops to shove some non-interactive apps like Spotify to the background. Nothing special, really. XFCE just works. Sure, the other desktops are more pretty .. but that wasn't worth the low FPS to me.

Re: Xfce 4.16

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Post by pjmlp »

ragnese wrote: post #67
pjmlp wrote: post #44

Thanks to all contributors, I have found a home in XFCE after Ubuntu drop Unity.

I liked the design of Unity. But I'm honestly surprised you'd pick Xfce over Gnome if you liked Unity. Unless, of course, your preferences just changed, or you didn't really like Unity either.

Easy, GNOME 3 has too much JavaScript bloat, broken workspace concept, requires extensions for simple stuff like collapsing windows into their header bar, a basic feature in almost every X Windows window manager since forever.

Neither Unity nor XFCE suffer from that.

Re: Xfce 4.16

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Post by [deleted] »

wayneftw wrote: post #73
December_Stars wrote: post #54

Odd how no one has mentioned the addition of client side decorations. Personally it's a huge dealbreaker for me, I really dislike how they look. It's a shame, because the release and Xfce in general otherwise seems really good. Guess I'll stick to MATE for now.

Maybe there will be an option to disable it?

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Re: Xfce 4.16

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Post by kaszanka »

awiesenhofer wrote: post #68
refracture wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Chicago95 can take that a step further if you like. I'm running KDE lately too (Slackware-current finally got KDE5 recently so I'm trying it out), but XFCE is the old trusty default for me.

Wow, what a blast from the past. I always wonder though is anyone actually using themes like these as their actual daily driver? Link to the project with Screenshots: https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95

I used XFCE with this exact theme for a few months and I loved it. The only thing I didn't like was that the light gray top "outline part" of the window decoration doesn't disappear when you maximize a window. I never figured out how to fix that.

Re: Xfce 4.16

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Post by ragnese »

pjmlp wrote: post #77
ragnese wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I liked the design of Unity. But I'm honestly surprised you'd pick Xfce over Gnome if you liked Unity. Unless, of course, your preferences just changed, or you didn't really like Unity either.

Easy, GNOME 3 has too much JavaScript bloat, broken workspace concept, requires extensions for simple stuff like collapsing windows into their header bar, a basic feature in almost every X Windows window manager since forever. Neither Unity nor XFCE suffer from that.

Fair enough! (Aside: The performance is horrible, but I doubt it has anything to do with JavaScript being the language of choice)
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