[Goodies-dev] Calculator panel-plugin

[Connor Behan]

I'm sorry you feel discouraged by the community. I'm sure everyone who 
mentioned the calculator plugin that already exists just mentioned that 
as a matter of interest. Everyone here wants to see a new calculator 
plugin surpass the old one in functionality and you are doing this so 
keep at it.
> My intention was to simply express interest in it. Unfortunately, I seem to read the words "Already Exists" as no one cares and "Don't Bother" contributing to the community.
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> the auto install I mean is about it being attached like a dependancy or similar whereby you cannot get the 4.6.0xx ++ installed w/o it being put in there automatically. - The great thing about distro developers is the treat their users like a ghost.
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And yes bundling panel plugins with other parts of Xfce is a bad idea... 
Xfce is supposed to be modular. The source of confusion may be the 
handful of plugins that are part of the build system of xfce4-panel. 
Distribution packages of xfce (which will always have xfce4-panel) are 
also more than likely to include the pager, system-tray, taskbar, 
separator, clock and launcher plugins. I suspect these are attached 
because they are crucial for making Xfce adhere to freedesktop.org 
standards and if they are part of xfce4-panel, more developers are 
likely to look at them to make sure they always work. I don't know if 
anyone complained about this decision but it looks like the most active 
Xfce developers think these plugins are a "special case". It does NOT 
mean every panel plugin should be bundled like this.