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Long-time and happy XFCE user

Posted Nov 12, 2011 1:31 UTC (Sat) by bronson (subscriber, #4806)
In reply to: Long-time and happy XFCE user by dskoll
Parent article: Why GNOME refugees love Xfce (Register)

To be fair, Gnome only kicks users in the teeth on major revs: 1.0 -> 2.0, and 2.0 -> 3.0. :) I'm genuinely curious, how was XFCE 3.0 -> 4.0?

(admittedly there was that minor spatial disaster partway through the Gnome 2.0 series but most distros turned it off so it didn't affect many users)

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Posted Nov 12, 2011 2:00 UTC (Sat) by dskoll (subscriber, #1630) [Link]

I'm genuinely curious, how was XFCE 3.0 -> 4.0?

I made that transition. It was considerably more disruptive than 4.6 to 4.8, but still not nearly as disruptive as KDE 3 to 4 or GNOME 2 to 3. The look changed quite a bit, but there was still a definite XFCE "feel" to both versions.

Long-time and happy XFCE user

Posted Nov 14, 2011 13:30 UTC (Mon) by nye (guest, #51576) [Link]

>how was XFCE 3.0 -> 4.0?

Functionally it was fine, but that was the transition from Gtk1 to Gtk2, which ballooned the memory requirements to such an extent that I ended up switching back to KDE as lower resource requirements had been a major selling point for XFCE.