XFC need more attention, beside normal debugging, and the following things are planed for XFC at the moment.

• 4.8 update
  • The panel is more C++ friendly in this version
  • libxfceui
• Easy to use Cairo widget
  • The Drawable widget has got a “get_cairo_context”, see example/ui/cairo.cc.
• Xfce Thunar extension

When we start using Gtk+3 in version Xfce 4.8.12, the plans for XFC (4.8) will change to :

• gobject-introspection for auto generation
  • we hopefully end up have more than 90% of the code auto generated
  • this will keep XFC in sync more or less automaticly
  • all essencial Xfce libs will hopefully ends up having related gi data
• C++11 wrapping
  • function template (generic function binding, and real lambda support)
    • ends up using only one way to attach signals
  • std promise signals (no more libsigc++)
  • extern templates (to keep footprint down)
  • gthread / std thread bindings
  • initialicers for list support
  • rvalue support

I hope that the support for introspection, may free up time for the more central elements.

Also note that XFC 4.6 and XFC 4.8 (Gtk+3) will not be compatible.