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by kelnos 851 days ago
That's pretty much been the status quo for us for 20+ years now, and yet we're still chugging along, making regular major releases every 2 years, with bugfix releases periodically in between. I worked on it from 2004 to 2009, took a long break, and got involved again about a year and a half ago. The cast of characters (aside from the original project creator) have all changed, but there's still enough interest to keep things going.

And sure, maybe that will change someday, and interest will fade, and the project will end up unmaintained. That'd be a shame, but that's fine. Doesn't invalidate or make useless what we're doing now, and doesn't mean our users need to make any big plans to change their workflows.

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I don't often get the chance to talk to people that work on software I've used every day for years and years - so thank you for all of your work on XFCE. It's a fantastic project that 'just works'.