It is no secret to anyone that the project Xfce It has always suffered from shortages in terms of developers and resources in general, it is for this reason that its development cycle is very slow compared to that of other DEs. For these reasons it has long been forums Xfce they asked for a way to send donations to the project; in one of the messages, Nick schermer (head of the project) mentioned the fact that they were working on the creation of a foundation to be able to receive and distribute the funds, however, although a page and others, this never finished materializing (from what we know until now there were many bureaucratic obstacles to make it happen).
Well, after a long time now it has been decided to opt for another option, an active developer of both Xfce (he is currently in charge of the changes in display dialog) as a member of the Xubuntu and collaborator of Shimmer project, simon steinbeiss, Together with Eric Kohel, also a developer and both current heads of xfce-power-manager, have announced at the mailing list de Xfce have created an account in bountysource for Xfce.
Now what is bountysource?
Our colleague lolbimbo he told us about it in the past week, but basically, as this free translation of the FAQ of bountysource:
bountysource is the funding platform for open source software. Users can improve the open source projects they love by creating / collecting rewards and committing to fundraising.
For more questions related to who can assign rewards, when can they be marked as resolved, and so on, I suggest reading the aforementioned FAQ.
Now, as Simon explains in his message, there are two ways to contribute:
- Assign a reward on a specific bug. The vast majority of the components with their error reports have already been included in the platform, and can be searched here.
- Support the team of Xfce generally
Platform is already in operation and it has very interesting characteristics, such as that several people can assign rewards to the same bug for example, or that they do not take any part of the money by assigning them; but it is even more so (in my concept at least), the one that anyone can contribute for a reward without having to be part of or have any relationship with the project. As I have already mentioned, all this can be consulted on the page.
The purpose of all this is not to profit from Xfce but accelerate their development, even more so when on the mailing list of xfce-dev has already been created a list of critical bugs to liberate Xfce 4.12.
So who can donate to do so, if it does not have a specific purpose, to the entire team; but of course, you may be interested in a particular bug, at this time for example there are donations to add a feature exhibits like that of other environments, or that which provides skippy-xd. The dissemination of the news is also essential to help, personally I hope that this finally gives it the impetus that Xfce need for a long time.
That's good. I liked Xfce a lot before, but the truth is that it has several bugs and is missing some features, which makes me opt for KDE or Cinnamon even on the netbook.
Well, it sounds very complicated to me, because they only do not place the paypal button and receive the donations, I would give it and with great pleasure. e donated to some free software on his projects. The idea seems good to me, but I see it complex. in my view as a donor. Cheers
I don't see how complicated it is, donations can be made with Google Walet, BitCoin and Paypal included just by accessing the project page here https://www.bountysource.com/teams/xfce and select the value to donate on the left.
I used XFCE until the last version where they put the Whisker and they increased the initial consumption by 50MB. With that, I returned to LXDE (which will eventually be ported to QT) and I have a ridiculous consumption when starting and with OpenBox that flies in my old machine.
A shame because I really liked XFCE. Hopefully they get funding and improve it; while I already see it difficult for me to get out of this plane called LXDE.
The whisker menu can be easily removed and put the original Xfce menu. I don't think even the Xfce developers did it, someone did it and some distros defaulted to their versions with Xfce. You have to read more.
As they mention to you, Whisker Menu is not an official part of Xfce, it is an independent project and that Xubuntu added (along with other distributions), I regret the a bit cutting tone but do not confuse Xfce with Xubuntu. It is also as easy as removing it with the package manager of your distribution; apt-get if it is Debian / Ubuntu, pacman if it is Arch / Manjaro, Urpm if it is Mageia or yum if it is Fedora.
Well, well, let's see. My mistake. Not that it used XFCE directly but Xubuntu. And Xubuntu put the Whisker in it. And who knows what else than consumption soared to more than 50MB. Since my machine is very old I decided to take a step back and set up Lubuntu. In the end it was more of a step forward because OpenBox is really a marvel.
I hope I have explained myself better now 🙂
I never really understood why to put Whisker if XFCE (and this time I do mean XFCE) already has something similar out of the box. I think that with Alt + F3 it was activated.
PS: Yes, I could have removed the Whisker and all that, but it would never have achieved the low consumption of RAM of Lubuntu.
Whisker on Debian Jessie does not increase consumption by 50 MB (or by half), it must be another Xubuntu add-on that does it ...
That's just what i said
Why would someone go to alt + f3 to search for something, if they can simply put their application menu and search for whatever they want, as well as having their favorites in one place and several other shortcuts?
Press Alt + F3 and you will see what you get. There are those who operate a PC faster with the keyboard than with the mouse. They are simple ways of doing things. Maybe Whisker has a shortcut, right? Well, XFCE's default menu (which is not that Whisker) comes out on its own by pressing that combination. I invite you to try it and you will see what I mean. It is similar to Whisker. What's more, I wouldn't be surprised if the developer was inspired by it to produce Whisker.
Well, I don't continue with this thread anymore. Apparently, no matter how I write it, I can't make myself understood. Greetings friends 🙂
I don't think there is much development left for gtk2, it doesn't hurt. I suppose that soon they will migrate to gtk3 or you who know qt.
regards
With version 4.10 there were critics with whom he did not agree about staying in GTK 2. But with version 4.12, almost a year and a half behind its release schedule and keeping GTK 2… It does not look good in Xfce. But hey, if Debian puts it as the default desktop, they trust them, and I'm the one I use.
And when do you plan to abandon gtk2?
Long live XFCE !!!!!!!