Xfce 4.6 ALPHA "Pinkie" released

昨天晚上，Xfce 小组发布了代号为“Pinkie”的 Xfce 4.6 首个 ALPHA 测试版本。这是该小组努力开发 18 个月的结果。Xfce 的上一个稳定版本 4.4.2 发布于去年 12 月，Xfce 4.6 将作为继 4.4 之后的下一个主要版本。根据 ，其正式版预计今年年底推出，具体的日期是 12 月 21 日。

Xfce 4.6 带来了一些新的组件，包括：

• xfconf - Xfce 4.6 的新配置系统
• xfce4-settings - Xfce 4.6 的新设置管理器
• libxfce4menu - Xfce 4.6 的菜单库

除了上述增加的新组件之外，Xfce 的一些默认组件也得到了改进和增强，这包括 Xfce 的窗口管理器、桌面管理器、面板组件等等。

更加详细的信息，可以查看 Changlogs。

如果你想尝试 Xfce 4.6 ALPHA，那么可从这里下载：

[14 September 2008 by Stephan Arts, Jannis Pohlman and Brian Tarricone]
Hello everybody,

After about 18 months of development, we are pleased to announce the release of Xfce 4.6 ALPHA, codename 'Pinkie'.

Xfce 4.6 is going to be the next major release of the Xfce desktop environment. The previous release was 4.4 with the last bugfix release being 4.4.2 released in December 2007.

The release schedule for Xfce 4.6 is available to the public on .


Xfce 4.6 comes with a lot of new components, some of them replacing old code and some of them being completely new. A preliminary ChangeLog for the alpha release can be found at this location
There is also a page which contains general information about the components of Xfce 4.6 and changes that are supposed to go into 4.6:



As this is a development-release, we do not claim it is perfect. is a list of issues we have already identified.

Getting excited? You can download xfce 4.6 alpha from .

We hope you have a lot of fun trying out this new Xfce.If you find any issues, don't hesitate to check out and look for the bug, or submit a new report if your issues are not already mentioned.

Kind regards,
The Xfce development team