Am 01.09.19 um 13:59 schrieb Peter Suetterlin:
Markus Egg wrote:
Hello,
I am running SuSE Tumbleweed on a desktop and on an older laptop (for test purposes).
On both machines after the last zypper ref/dup/up cycle the complete XFCE desktop was changed, many of the settings were lost and the way how one can change e.g. the desktop background was changed in a way that it is more inconvenient.
I do know that XFCE per se did not change, because on another Laptop with Ubuntu 18.04 the XFCE desktop and settings were the same after the last updates.
This is a completely unusable comparison. Tumbleweed is rolling release, and follows upstream. So if there is a new version of a package, it will be included sooner or later without (too much) further notice.
This is the reason why one runs a rolling release. If you do not like it, don't use it. It *is* as easy as that.
Ubuntu is *not* a rolling release distribution, and therefore no update will change the (major) version of installed software. Claiming XFCE has not changed because it's unchanged in Ubuntu is close to ridiculous IMHO.
I do appreciate the rolling release approach. But that is not the topic here. I am adressing the rather useless changes regarding settings of XFCE. Like similar problems with KDE listed here before: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=341143 These are tiny bits and pieces and not regarding stability directly, but the "it was usable before, why did you remove it"-feeling.
If that behavior (sticking with a release, in doubt backporting fixes) is what you want, use Leap, and NOT Tumbleweed.
<rant on> Where did the message of "never change a runnning machine" go? <rant off>
Where did 'read about what you install before you do so' go?
The change of XFCE from 4.12 to 4.14 was announced here on August 23.
I see, that I rather post this issue in one of the XFCE forums. BR -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org