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Xfce 4.6 is released!

jim — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 01:04:30 +0000

Hot off of the presses comes a release announcement marking the final release of Xfce 4.6!

from          Stephan Arts
date    Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 6:30 PM
subject    Xfce 4.6.0 Released!!!

After more than two years of development, Xfce 4.6.0 has just been released.

Xfce 4.6 features a new configuration backend, a new settings manager,
a brand new session manager and sound mixer as well as several huge
improvements of its core components. A list of all the changes since
the last release candidate can be found on this page.

A visual overview of Xfce 4.6 is available here:
http://www.xfce.org/about/tour

Download Xfce 4.6 from the Downloads section of the Xfce website:
http://www.xfce.org/download

Regards,
The Xfce development team.

All interested parties should take a quick peek at the desktop tour that is linked-to above, but Xubuntu users won’t need to download anything from the Xfce website – Xfce 4.6 will be included by default in Xubuntu 9.04.

CONGRATULATIONS to the entire Xfce development team!

Room for Improvement

jim — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 04:00:49 +0000

Both this article and this article note how Ubuntu’s documentation needs to be better than it is. The first article describes (in the last point on the second page) that we should do more content scraping from the unofficial documentation (with permission) to improve our docs. We receive lots of requests for mentorship, so there certainly isn’t a lack of interest in helping out with documentation. The sprawling mass of wiki pages and forum tips is pretty enormous, though, and we need to specifically target the alternate doc sources a bit more. This process may even be going on already without me being fully aware of what is going on. (I do live in a sort of cave.)

One thing that stands out to me in the second article, though, is the point about release notes. We didn’t have release notes ready for the final Beta and RC of Xubuntu 7.10, and the final release notes for 7.10 weren’t put together until after the official release. We need to do better with that. I guess I’ll be studying up on what makes good release notes.