Today, after 1 year and 4 months of work, we are pleased to announce the release of the Xfce desktop 4.10, a new stable version that supersedes Xfce 4.8.
In the 4.10 cycle we mainly focused on polishing the desktop and improving the user experience in various ways. Highlights of this release are:
- A new application finder that has been completely rewritten and combines the functionality of the old xfce4-appfinder and xfrun4.
- The panel now has an alternative vertical display mode (a deskbar). What is more, panel plugins can be arranged in multiple rows, which is particularly useful in the deskbar mode.
- A new MIME type editor that allows you to easily change applications used for opening different file types. The mouse and touchpad settings dialog and the settings editor were extended in terms of functionality. The former now supports tablets in a much better way.
- It is now possible to launch applications and open files on the desktop with a single click of the mouse. In addition, the 4.10 desktop can display thumbnails and automatically advance through the wallpaper list.
- The window manager can be configured to tile windows when dragging them to the screen edges. The tab window (Alt+Tab) supports more flexible theming and cursor key navigation.
An online tour of the changes in Xfce 4.10 can be viewed here:
A detailed overview of the changes compared to Xfce 4.8 and Xfce 4.10 preview releases can be found on the following page:
http://xfce.org/download/changelogs
This release can be downloaded either as a set of individual packages or as a single fat tarball including all these individual versions:
http://archive.xfce.org/xfce/4.10
Thank you all the contributors, bug reporters, as well as translators and packagers for your efforts in making this release possible.
Best regards,
The Xfce development team
Congratulations to all the developers at Xfce! I think it is great you were able to accomplish so much in as short a time as it is.
Link | April 29th, 2012 at 01:54
Great job, can’t wait to try it out!
Link | April 29th, 2012 at 04:51
Congratulations to all of you guys!
you guys need more attention and confirmation, THIS DE is very, very useful and needed!
hope it’s going to be on Fedora 17 very fast :)
cheers
Link | April 29th, 2012 at 08:57
Congratulations!
Link | April 29th, 2012 at 09:21
Xfce will be the main (only?) DE for users looking for the old Win95 style.
Link | April 29th, 2012 at 09:35
I was not following the development and not expecting a release. So I was very surprised seeing this!
This release made my day. I love all the improvements. Thank you very much!
Link | April 29th, 2012 at 11:46
Great work guys :)
Link | April 29th, 2012 at 17:43
Thank you very much guys, I have been using XFCE for a long time and I think best simple desktop environment for Linux. This looks like a great release by the way.
Link | April 30th, 2012 at 07:45
I loved improvements. thanks a lot.
Link | April 30th, 2012 at 18:12