Comment 16 for bug 1190990

Some of your applications might depend on certain version of xfdesktop, but I doubt it would be the case.
Also not sure how update manager would react... I think the biggest worry is about configs, if they have changed with newer version of xfdesktop, you might mess up things. But of course you can try it, just take back up of the original binaries and possible configs.

Upgrading shouldn't require re-installing or tweaking..? You are prompted to keep your old configs. Also I would clean the fan anyway! And there is always the option to just deal with messy icon positions.

But you do as you please. However this is not right place for technical support for such hacking.