Hi all,

Last week I volunteered (was volunteered?) to contact the Xfce team and
ask them whether systemd loomed on their horizon. Here is the report
that was promised.

After a long chat with a couple of developers on the #xfce channel, it
seems they have no plans to introduce hard systemd dependencies. A
welcome change from certain DEs that are queueing up to staple logind to
their own foreheads?

They also recommended Consolekit2 as a compatible candidate login
system, and said that Xfce plays well with OpenRC and SysVinit.
Consolekit2 is a fork maintained independently of Xfce by one of their
team. Please make of that what you wish as I don't know the ins and outs
of these components.

They confirmed that Xfce 4.12 will be released this weekend and
recommended packaging it. The Whisker menu is now an Xfce project and is
now at v1.50.

There were some other recommendations -- useful Arch packages that might
help with background info for a systemd-free distro. I have to pick
those out of the channel log file -- please holler off-list if you want
more details.

Just passing on the news -- don't bite if I've misreported anything :-)

All the best,

David H