Just shy of two years since Xfce 4.16 the latest release has landed with Xfce 4.18 that comes with tons of new features and a "gazillion" bug fixes. It's still one of the most popular desktop environments for Linux, that offers up a lightweight experience without a lot of the fancy shiny stuff found in GNOME and KDE.
A lot of this release went into the Thunar file manager, some of the improvements noted include:
- Image preview in the file manager, with two different modes available. You can have the preview pop over the left panel, or have it so its own panel appears on the right.
- Undo and Redo support for various file operations like moving, renaming, sending to trash.
- File highlighting accent colour support. You can adjust the background and filename to different colours.
- A customizable toolbar.
- A new split view.
- Recursive searching.
- A new Recent file view.
- Bookmarks moved to their own menu.
- + more
There's plenty of improvement elsewhere like the Application Finder having support for systems with hybrid graphics, the compositor now supports adaptive vsync with GLX, better support for UI scaling, you can now decide what to do when a new display is connected and much much more.
More can be seen on a developer blog post and full changelog.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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Quoting: MinuxI've always been a huge fan of KDE. I've tried xfce but not much. Do you recommend it? How would you compare it to KDE?
KDE is perfectly fine, as is Gnome. XFCE is more stripped down compared to those. There's fewer options, toggles and features. There's also much less "bloat", in terms of branded companion apps (or ecosystem rather). It's a much lighter DE, which has some positives and drawbacks.
I prefer it for those reasons. I don't need a special package manager front end, email client, and other things. Yes, I know these extras in K+G are optional, but removing can be difficult due to the way dependencies are handled in different distros, and it takes time. I'd rather spend that time adding specifically what apps I want.
I guess if you aren't using the K+G ecosystems and mostly use your DE as a standard desktop, you might like XFCE's simplicity. On the other hand, if you use tons of widgets, custom shortcuts and workflows, and rely heavily on K+G apps, you might find it frustrating, or very time consuming to set up.
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Quoting: tuubiQuoting: MinuxI've always been a huge fan of KDE. I've tried xfce but not much. Do you recommend it? How would you compare it to KDE?
It offers everything you need from a desktop, and not much else. A great file manager. A decent panel and desktop. A pretty good terminal. Plenty of customizability and a limited but sufficient amount of bells and whistles.
Nothing trendy or exciting, but it does exactly what I need and in a way that feels intuitive to me. But that might just be the fact that apart from a few brief digressions, I've been running Xfce on my computers pretty much exclusively for the last two decades or so.
I couldn't really compare it to KDE, as I never got along with that particular DE enough to get to know it properly. The last time I tried it, it felt big, buggy and clunky. But that was obviously quite a while ago.
Sorry for the late answer. I've been a lot of time without login here. I guess I'll give it another try. It's been years since I last tried it.
Quoting: denyasisQuoting: MinuxI've always been a huge fan of KDE. I've tried xfce but not much. Do you recommend it? How would you compare it to KDE?
KDE is perfectly fine, as is Gnome. XFCE is more stripped down compared to those. There's fewer options, toggles and features. There's also much less "bloat", in terms of branded companion apps (or ecosystem rather). It's a much lighter DE, which has some positives and drawbacks.
I prefer it for those reasons. I don't need a special package manager front end, email client, and other things. Yes, I know these extras in K+G are optional, but removing can be difficult due to the way dependencies are handled in different distros, and it takes time. I'd rather spend that time adding specifically what apps I want.
I guess if you aren't using the K+G ecosystems and mostly use your DE as a standard desktop, you might like XFCE's simplicity. On the other hand, if you use tons of widgets, custom shortcuts and workflows, and rely heavily on K+G apps, you might find it frustrating, or very time consuming to set up.
Sorry for the late answer, I've been ago for a long time. Thanks for all the details you've given me. I guess I'll give it another try. It's been a long time since I used it. It was charming then, gotta see what offers now :-)
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