Xubuntu 17.04 Lands for Xfce Fans with More Apps and Plugins Ported to GTK+ 3

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  • Post Updated: April 3, 2024

As part of today’s massive Ubuntu 17.04 (Zesty Zapus) release, the Xubuntu 17.04 official flavor landed for fans of the lightweight Xfce desktop environment with more optimizations and the latest GNU/Linux technologies.

Xubuntu 17.04 is not a major milestone, especially that it’s a short-lived release supported with security updates for only nine months from today, until mid-January 2018. However, it does bring various improvements and updates several apps and plugins to the latest GTK+ 3 technologies.

“Several Xfce panel plugins and applications have been ported to GTK+ 3, paving the way for improved theming and further development,” reads today’s announcement. “Core Xfce libraries exo and libxfce4ui have also been updated with full GTK+ 3 support, the latter adding suppo… (read more)

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