A couple of FOSS goodies that should be ready for the festive season
The next version of Xfce, the oldest FOSS Unix desktop environment around, is nearly ready – and should have preliminary,"minimally usable" Wayland support.indicates that version 4.20 should go into feature freeze next month, for a planned release on December 15 – exactly two years afterthat preliminary steps towards Wayland support were coming, and they should start to bear fruit in the December release. The next version will not be a full, all-native Wayland environment.
This doesn't mean that by the next major release an Xfce session on Wayland will offer all existing features, but we hope it will be minimally usable.Cinnamon 6.4 will have a new dark theme with greater contrast, and uses new dialog boxes, on-screen displays , and other screens implemented using the, Mint-X and Mint-Y. However, Cinnamon is also gaining traction on other distributions such as Fedora, openSUSE, and Mint's upstream, Ubuntu.
Gtk is part of, and is maintained by, the GNOME project for its own use. If it's helpful to anyone else, that's great, but as theThere are concerns that the MATE and Xfce teams may need to cooperate and take over maintaining the now-obsolescent Gtk 3 code themselves… and that could now apply to Clutter too.
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