The only thing I feel sad about is that these releases get into stable distributions like Debian Stretch and Buster and issues we encounter will never be fixed without rebuilding xfce packages of our own. Too bad their efforts were spent on moving toward an immature, less stable and more bloated toolkit (GTK3). It would've been so good if Xfce developers maintained a GTK2-only version until all Xfce apps are completely ported to GTK3 and GTK2 gets phased out completely from distributions. So much ironic that deprecated IconSizes destroys usability mostly on HiDPI screens where a 16x16 icon is a real problem.

The most popular stock-phrase reason about moving to GTK3 is always some shiny stuff about HiDPI screens (which only the minority of users possess but that doesn't seem to matter). Will they ever be ported? It doesn't seem so.Īfter 3-4 years of development, we still don't have entire Xfce as GTK3 so quarter or half of applications are in GTK2, the other half are GTK3. We still don't have the GTK3 counterparts of original Xfce themes. So why exactly did you insist so much on porting Xfce to GTK3? You get immediate crashes when starting any sample or application: This may be due to having compiled. Unfortunately the exact package names differ between different Linux distributions, but for Debian and Debian-based distribution these libraries are part of libgtk-3-dev package. Who thinks they can do a good job of that Note also that this will break third-party plugin. At the very least, you will need GTK libraries themselves.

svg icons by default before searching for other formats? But that doesn't really solve my problem since many icon sets do not come with scalable icons for apps, and those few that do only come in 96px size (ie Faenza and Obsidian). The GTK people suggest using gtk3-icon-browser to choose icons. svg type (scalable vector graphic, an xml-based image format), but those exist typically in the 96px and up size, not in 16px size which is what xfce4.14 has chosen to use.īecause it is a known fact that raster-graphic images (.png-type) scale-up terribly, and scale-down barely acceptable, what gives? Perhaps xfce could be made to look first for. But this still boggles my mind, though: why replace a useful, perfectly working function with something that does NOT, and CANNOT, produce the identical result? This could possibly work only under one condition: the underlying icon source is of the. It worked just as you said, and was just as disappointing. Well, i thank you again for and tested your suggetion.

Gtk3 stock icons