Xfce 4.20 creeps toward Wayland support while Mint 22.1 polishes desktop routine
Quoting: Xfce 4.20 and Mint 22.1 expected in December —
The next version of Xfce, the oldest FOSS Unix desktop environment around, is nearly ready – and should have preliminary, "minimally usable" Wayland support.
The latest release schedule for Xfce indicates that version 4.20 [insert stoner joke here] should go into feature freeze next month, for a planned release on December 15 – exactly two years after Xfce 4.18 appeared.
This means it goes Wayland 25 years after Xfce 3.0, the first open source release. Xfce 1 and 2 were proprietary and were built with the XForms toolkit, as creator Olivier Fourdain explained in a 1999 interview. You can see screenshots of those early versions on Oleg Slavkin's GitHub archive of early releases.