XFCE4 Install under Dapper

[Raymond Lillard]

Jani Monoses wrote:
>> Actually, XFCE4 is a meta package that will install enough components 
>> to  have a XFCE4 desktop, as mentioned though, XFCE4 is not in its 
>> prime right now. 
> 
> xfce4 is no longer recommended, use xubuntu-desktop instead. Although 
> for those wishing to use xfce4 without the rest of xubuntu apps I guess 
> the former metapackage will need to be updated to reflect the current 
> changes.


Not recommended since when and by whom?  I use it on
other OSs and it works quite well.  In several ways
I prefer it to Gnome.

Regards,
Ray