XFCE 3.8.16

[Tim Wunder]

On 7/16/2002 12:27 PM, someone claiming to be Collins wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Jul 2002 12:18:09 -0400 Tim Wunder <tim at thewunders.org>
> wrote:
> 
>>On 7/16/2002 11:55 AM, someone claiming to be Tim Wunder wrote:
>>
>>>Looking at installing XFCE 3.8.16. Downloaded 
>>>gtk-xfce-engine-2.0.6.tar.gz and xfce-3.8.16.tar.gz, untarred 
>>>gtk-xfce-engine-2.0.6.tar.gz  and ran ./configure on it and found
>>>out it wants gtk+-2.0 >= 2.0.0. The latest I found is 2.0.5. Can I
>>>install 2.0.5 along side 1.2.8 (which is currently installed)?
>>>
>>
>>Blast it all...
>>According to http://www.xfce.org/download.html, XFCE should run with
>>GTK+-1.2.8, "Important: XFce requires the latest GTK+ 1.2 version
>>(at least GTK+ 1.2.6, rpm being built against GTK+ 1.2.10) to run.
>>GTK+ is available from "GTK ftp site"."
>>
>>So, is the freaking gtk-xfce engine needed? Hmmm, seems I can
>>configure xfce-3.8.16 without it...
>>
>>Nevermind?
>>
> 
> 
> I believe that gtk-xfce-engine is a part of the experimental gtk+2
> variant of xfce.  You definitely don't want it with xfce 3.8.16.  Also
> if you're interested in the latest stable-but-not-released xfce with
> the taskbar extension, you'll need to get that from cvs.  I posted a
> howto a while back, or let me know if you want it and I'll dredge it
> up again.
> 

Yes, gtk-xfce-engine wasn't needed for 3.8.16. Re: the taskbar, I found your how-to on the archives, but I'm gonna run plain vanilla xfce for a little while...