Show Notes
Coming up in this episode
A little Musing on CDE
A few answers from the man himself
The history of XFce
How it went
And a new journey
0:00 Cold Open
1:29 Ask Olivier
20:04 Xfce History: In the Beginning (1996)
22:08 Enter XFce (1997)
24:47 The XForms Problem (1998)
25:56 The Third (1999)
29:32 The Fourth (2001-2015)
32:59 The Third, Again (2016-2023)
36:22 More Questions!
45:50 How'd Xfce Go?
1:02:25 Next Time
1:09:45 Stinger
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XForms toolkit
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XFce 3.2 User Guide
2000 Interview - 10 Questions with Olivier Fourdan
2001 Interview
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xfce goes all lowercase
2007 Interview
2009 Linux Journal Interview
2009 Slashgear Interview
2017 Interview with Sean Davis
Xfce 4.4 - 4.18
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