Xubuntu 21.10 Gains New Apps, Including a Clipboard Manager.
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Xubuntu users can look forward to some new default apps later this year.
A handful of additional desktop applications are set to ship in Xubuntu 21.10 when it’s
released later this year.
“Recent team votes have expanded Xubuntu’s collection of apps’”, writes Xubuntu developer
Sean Davis in a blog post detailing work going into the upcoming release.
The applications set to be added include disk usage analyser app Baobab (pictured above,
image credit Sean Davis) and the GNOME Disk Utility. Both of these are handy tools to
have around. The former is incredibly useful for hunting down disk-space hogging files
and folders, while the latter is my (and many others’) go-to partition manager.
Desktop music player Rhythmbox is also pegged for inclusion. A public vote taking place
to help developers decide whether to ship Rhythmbox with its “standard” toolbar,
or use the (I think more orderly) alternative toolbar, as used in Ubuntu:
A clipboard manager is also set to ship out-of-the-box — something I feel Ubuntu should’ve added
years ago.
Clipman, aka the xfce4-clipman-plugin package, is the one Xubuntu devs will roll with. This
is a well-integrated plugin that supports clipboard history (including search), and
both text and image pastes.
There is a Xubuntu team vote taking place to decide if Clipman should be turned on my
default. Speaking as a user my hope is that it won’t, not unless the distro adds upfront
onboarding to let users know something logging their clipboard is active. Running without
explicit request feels a bit icky.
Since GNOME 40 and GTK4 feature in Ubuntu 21.10 proper this will impact on Xubuntu to
a degree. Davis notes that GTK4 ‘components’ will feature in Xubuntu 21.10. This results
in the distro coming with 3 versions of the toolkit in use, as GIMP uses GTK2, whilst
the bulk of Xfce is now based on GTK3.
Xubuntu 21.10 is scheduled for release on October 14, 2021.
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Xubuntu 21.10 To Ship Some More GNOME Apps, Drops Pidgin
For those wondering what has been going on in the Xubuntu camp for this Xfce desktop
spin of Ubuntu, a Xubuntu 21.10 development update was shared concerning package changes
and other happenings.
Xubuntu continues progressing for those interested in an Xfce-based desktop experience while
leveraging Ubuntu. New software additions for Xubuntu 21.10 include GNOME's Baobab disk
usage analyzer, GNOME Disks, the Rhythmbox music player, and Xfce's Clipman clipboard
management application.
Meanwhile Xubuntu 21.10 is dropping the Pidgin instant messenger client from its default
application set. In acknowledging that chat services are becoming increasingly proprietary
and Pidgin is no longer as popular as it once was, they have given it the boot from the
default package selection but can still be installed from the archive for those interested.
Xubuntu 21.10 is also working on adding at least two new themes.
Meanwhile the Xubuntu developers (along with many in the open-source community) are hoping
GIMP 3.0 will finally release soon. For now it means Xubuntu has to deal with having GTK2,
GTK3, and GTK4 pre-installed with GIMP being their reason for still shipping GTK2.
See more via this Xubuntu 21.10 development update by developer Sean Davis.
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