[Goodies-dev] Calculator panel-plugin

[Steve]

Basically thank you.

I am diturbed by the way Devs in both the Distro and XFCE have reacted to me.

Oh well. I tried to post a new thread but no luck.


God speed

Steve

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--- On Sat, 1/9/10, Connor Behan <connor.behan at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Connor Behan <connor.behan at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Goodies-dev] Calculator panel-plugin
> To: goodies-dev at xfce.org
> Date: Saturday, January 9, 2010, 5:26 PM
> 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.
> > 
> > 
> > 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.
> >    
> 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.
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