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News for users of the desktop environment XFCE:
xfce4-taskmanager 1.2.0
This is a new release which brings a handy feature, i.e. identifying windows by clicking on them. Just use the crosshair-button in the toolbar and click on a window. This will result in the appropriate/associated process being selected in the tree or listview.
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xfce4-notifyd 0.3.5This long-awaited feature release finally brings the persistence support I have been working on for a while. So you can now enable a notification log and get your "away log" easily this way. There are even some options to only get the log for certain apps or only with "do not disturb" mode enabled.
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Thunar 1.6.11This maintenance release brings some important fixes that have made users complain a lot in the recent past – and understandably so. Thunar was fairly unstable with copy, rename, move and drag-and-drop operations and would simply crash. While a lot of people in the community did testing (and whining :)), several folks got to work, identified the underlying issue and submitted patches (that I pushed recently).
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday February 15 2017, @05:36PM
Xfce has become what Gnome 2.x always should have been. It's light, sane, configurable, and amazingly customizable. This screenshot here is a credible OS X 10.9/Mavericks imitation, using Docky, Compiz/Emerald, Mint-X-Aqua theme and icons, and the TopMenu applet (you can't see it, but GTK2 apps actually create a global menubar): http://imgur.com/a/BunJk [imgur.com]
I started with Linux (Gentoo, eek) in 2004, and Xfce very quickly became my favorite DE. This was in the days before Thunar, when version 4.2 was out and the taskbar didn't quiiiite do what you'd expect a taskbar to do. I had started on Gnome 2.2 or 2.4, found it a little too curated and switched to Fluxbox, and settled on Xfce.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...