[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#646981: Bug#646981: xfce4-panel -- still looses all items on logoff.

[Dmitry Smirnov]

On Thu, 13 Sep 2012 17:41:34 Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> On jeu., 2012-09-13 at 17:01 +1000, Dmitry Smirnov wrote:
> Well, it doesn't seem to affect much people in the end. As I said
> before, my guess is that it affects people not using a session manager
> or using a session manager which (for some reason) doesn't register
> xfce4-panel in the session (which seems to be the case for you in KDE).

Thank you for explaining this.


> All people using standard Xfce desktop are not affected, which I guess
> is the majority of people using xfce4-panel.

I'm glad there are not too many people affected.


> Yes, Xfce is supposed to be
> modular and xfce4-panel is supposed to work perfectly fine outside of
> Xfce, but the development team has quite some time constraints and
> already said it wasn't possible to backport the fixes to 4.8.

Sorry, I didn't realise it's not possible. I thought you have said that you'll 
try... Perhaps I missed something...


> Feel free to argue on the upstream bug at
> https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8206 but I'm unsure you'll be
> able to change that.
 
Thanks for the link, I might leave a comment but there is no need for argue. 
:)

Practically speaking the problem is already fixed so I just need to use newer 
version.

Please feel free to close this bug at your discretion if appropriate.

Thanks again for your help and fantastic work on xfce4 in Debian.

All the best,
Dmitry.