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. 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. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org