[Thunar-dev] Thunar is not ROX

[Benedikt Meurer]

Just talked to Ori on IRC concerning certain ROX features, and why not 
to include them. I think it's important to remember that Thunar is not 
ROX and we have completely different goals. There's no need to emulate 
ROX, as people that want to use ROX will happily use ROX. We don't need 
another "RiscOS on UniX", instead our goal is to be easy to use and 
consistent with other modern Unix/Linux desktop apps.

You may think that I'm too restrictive with feature adoptions - and 
that's what I am, yes - but it seems to be the only way to ensure that 
we don't go into the wrong direction currently, IMHO. We have defined a 
good set of basic features 3 months ago and there was a lot of 
discussion to find the right way(TM). Now it's time to get something 
running with that feature set.

The plugin system will enable a wide range of UI controls that behave 
differently, but for the beginning, we need to get the core running, 
which implements the basic feature set we agreed on and everybody is 
expecting from Thunar 1.0.

Benedikt