Re: [wip] Xfce 4.14pre2

On Sat, May 25, 2019 at 06:43:49PM +0200, Landry Breuil wrote:
> Hi,
>
> since some years now i've been maintaining x11/xfce4 in the portstree,
> with an alternate repo at https://cgit.rhaalovely.net/xfce4/?h=next
> tracking upstream devel releases. This repo now contains all the bits
> composing 4.14pre1 (cf
> https://simon.shimmerproject.org/2019/05/19/xfce-4-14pre1-released/ for
> the details, the main thing being of course the complete port to Gtk+3),
> the final release being targeted at sometimes during the summer.
>
> as an upstream developer i've of course been running it during the
> development cycle on most of my boxes, but now would be a good time for
> other Xfce users on OpenBSD to give it a shot and eventually report some
> bugs to https://bugzilla.xfce.org.
>
> The main OpenBSD-specific change is
> https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14722 (needs testing !)
> which will make the consolekit/policykit/messagebus dependency
> completely optional, allowing an user in the operator group to shutdown
> the machine (ie can run the shutdown binary), or suspend/hibernate if in
> the wheel group (ie has access to apmdev), instead of relying on 3
> daemons running as root. The previous mode of needing messagebus
> running + spawning startxfce4 within consolekit should still work.
>
> amd64 -current packages for all core xfce pkgs (and some others i'm
> using) are available at https://packages.rhaalovely.net/wip/amd64/
> (signed with https://packages.rhaalovely.net/landry-mozilla-pkg.pub)
>
> barring delays, this should make 6.6, but it's better if it's been
> "widely" tested before..

Fwiw, all updated to 4.14pre2, per
https://wiki.xfce.org/releng/4.14/xfce_4.14pre2.
Feedback & testing still welcome.

Landry