xfce with taskbar

[Collins]

On Sat, 29 Jun 2002 06:12:00 -0500 Michael Hipp <mhipp at redmule.com>
wrote:
> Thanks. Any indication of when this might go to release (presumably
> we'll have a gentoo .ebuild shortly afterward)?

I wouldn't hold your breath.  Only one developer is working this. 
Olivier and the rest of the xfce team are feverishly working on
xfce/xfwm4 for  GTK+ 2.0.  Just put up the CVS version and don't worry
- it's rock solid.

> 
> I'm still trying to figure out anyone could get along without a
> taskbar (given that alot of these wms/desktops don't have one).
> That's the one single indispensable feature of the gui:
> instantaneous random-access task switching.
> 

Great minds run on the same track, but ... traffic on the xfce list is
running 2-1 in favor of "who needs this crap, anyway?"  Go figure. 
Xfce afficionados tend to be died-in-the-wool minimalists, and this
isn't quite minimal enough!

I'm just starting to experiment with getting the taskbar running by
itself without the xfce main panel.  Will keep you posted when I get
the right parameters.



> On Friday 28 June 2002 10:15 pm, Collins wrote:
> > xfce hasn't produced a release with this code, but it is committed
> > in CVS and quite stable.

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