MX-21 fluxbox beta 2 feedback thread

[Eadwine Rose]

Moderator: @Procenko One more time and you'll get a warning. You've gotten your answer, be happy with it, even if you don't like it.

[PPC]

A bit off topic, but also a general good info:
fluxbox itself is still being developed, as anyone can see by checking recent patches in https://github.com/fluxbox/fluxbox. What happens is that although there's a bet aversion being developed for many years, because fluxbox is so stable and practicaly bug free, no recent version has been packaged for general use (Skidoo, from the antiX forum packaged a more recent version, that includes the possibility to use (text) quick launchers in fluxbox toolbar)...

MXFB is far more than pure fluxbox- it's built on that, yes, but it has it's own ecosystem, that, for all intents and purposes "updates" fluxbox (for example, it includes it's own menu generator, tint2 toolbar, options to have different wallpapers for different workspaces, etc, etc,)
The beta integrates every single improvement into a seamless, extremely configurable "desktop", that's lighter on resources than XFCE or KDE, that follows modern UI guidelines that most users expect.

P.

[Procenko]

Give it up. If you don't like it, don't use it. We like it.

And besides, development is not dead. Have you seen flaxx by developer the amazing Sébastien Ballet?

I will like it if its not dead)

Flaxx? I see only configuration utility not core product. Or i am wrong?

[Procenko]

Moderator: @Procenko One more time and you'll get a warning. You've gotten your answer, be happy with it, even if you don't like it.

Why you so angry? I am just ask.

I don't know the situation about development fluxxbox I'm just interested

[Eadwine Rose]

Not angry. Just being firm. You came across as if you were going to just keep on asking why.

[siamhie]

I don't know the situation about development fluxxbox I'm just interested

Although it hasn't been actively developed for 6+ years, there's nothing to fix, which is why distro's still include it.

Fluxbox137.jpg

[siamhie]

A bit off topic, but also a general good info:
fluxbox itself is still being developed, as anyone can see by checking recent patches in https://github.com/fluxbox/fluxbox. What happens is that although there's a bet aversion being developed for many years, because fluxbox is so stable and practicaly bug free, no recent version has been packaged for general use (Skidoo, from the antiX forum packaged a more recent version, that includes the possibility to use (text) quick launchers in fluxbox toolbar)...

P.

@PPC The other night I was searching DDG for any mention of Fluxbox 1.3.8 and came across this link talking about prep/pre-1.4.0 release. What caught my eye was the two developers from the Fluxbox team (Mathias Gumz and Mark Tiefenbruck).

http://git.fluxbox.org/fluxbox.git/ (the links to the fluxbox-master files are not on the servers apparently)

[i_ri]

Hello dolphin_oracle
Task Manager Utility
<xfce4-taskmanager> nice to have installed (?)

[Eadwine Rose]

Thread locked, please move to the RC threads :)