Jaunty and Xfce 4.6
Xfce 4.6 Release Candidate 1 is now in the Jaunty archive! I just upgraded to Jaunty (Hardy -> Intrepid -> Jaunty) the other day and am really digging the new version of Xfce4! 
One of my favourite new features is the ability to hide certain notification icons in the notification tray.
If you click the little arrow button, it’ll expand to show everything.
The properties dialogue looks very sharp IMHO:
Another big change is the settings stuff. Gone is MCS and here is xfconfd! They’ve also revamped the GUI for the settings:
W00T! More screenshots soon!
Big thanks to Lionel Le Folgoc, Jerome Guelfucc, Michael Casadevall, and the Debian Xfce team!
February 11th, 2009 at 8:02 pm
Any chance the menu editor will be back soon?? This defaut menu is killing me!
February 11th, 2009 at 10:00 pm
Wow! It seems like yesterday that I was helping Benny with getting XFCE 4.0 to compile on Solaris.
Maybe we can get an OpenSolaris package in the near future. (wink wink)
February 12th, 2009 at 3:39 pm
@Cody - I hadn’t noticed the “hide an icon” feature yet - that’s pretty nifty.
February 12th, 2009 at 4:40 pm
@diginux: Unfortunately not. You’ll have to wait until Xfce 4.8 for the menu library to be feature complete so that it supports menu editors. And then you can use alacarte or something else for that.
Until then you can only create your own xfce-applications.menu or applications.menu in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/xdg/menus/ and include whatever you want there. You can also create new .desktop files in $XDG_DATA_HOME/applications/ and copy global .desktop files into that directory to edit/hide menu items. Stuff like that. I know, that’s not user-friendly at all.
February 12th, 2009 at 10:32 pm
[…] Jaunty and Xfce 4.6 Xfce 4.6 Release Candidate 1 is now in the Jaunty archive! I just upgraded to Jaunty (Hardy -> Intrepid -> Jaunty) the other day and am really digging the new version of Xfce4! […]
February 13th, 2009 at 7:35 am
You refer to xfconfd as the replacement of the MCS manager. That’s wrong, MCS used to set the X settings, now that has been ported to xfsettingsd (+ xfce4-settings-helper) and it uses the xfconf client library. Xfconfd is the daemon that is run when using the client library, and it stores/retrieves configuration data (or settings but any settings ;-)).
@diginux: also have a look at http://wiki.xfce.org/howto/customize-menu — don’t be afraid to edit it if you try it out and think it’s worth mentioning other topics.
February 14th, 2009 at 6:48 pm
Great news, Congratz to all xubuntu developers.
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