[Thunar-dev] Help needed? -> next steps

[Jasper Huijsmans]

On Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 10:17:05AM +0200, Auke Kok wrote:
> Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
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> >Auke Kok wrote:
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> >>As such we have two options:
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> >>(1) Follow Benedikt where he is going and be confident that his 'thunar' 
> >>will integrate or operate well within Xfce4
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> >>(2) Fork thunar into something new and make sure ourselves that ... see 
> >>above.
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> >I vote for #2.  To be perfectly blunt, Benny hasn't been too forthcoming
> >with his position lately.  I understand wanting to take a break, but at
> >this point I'd rather not rely on someone external, especially someone
> >who isn't really sure how involved he wants to be.
> >
> >To that end, I'm looking here:
> >http://www.xfce.org/~benny/tmp/thunar-relations-20050328.png
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> >I'm thinking about implementing very tiny, incomplete versions of
> >ThunarFileInfo and ThunarMimeInfo, and then building ThunarDesktopModel
> >and ThunarDesktopView on top of them.  I'm going to try to do this by
> >this weekend.  I have a friend visiting me for a week starting next
> >Monday, so I likely won't be coding at all while he's here.
> >
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> 
> In order to maximize the infrastructure use we have I suggest that I 
> setup an svn directory in which all changes can be merged ASAP. 
> Additionally I'd like to appoint someone project maintainer that can 
> grant other people write access to this SVN repository, so we can get 
> mutliple people working on different parts as soon as that becomes 
> possible.
> 
> Brian, would you be willing to pull this? I'll handle the administrativa 
> as usual.
> 
> Also, I vote for naming the project codename 'nomad' immediately and 
> perhaps renaming/restarting the mailing list ASAP, to prevent confusion. 
> Since we really should be stepping away from the name 'thunar' I see no 
> reason to use 'thunar' for the mailinglist anymore. The Thunar website 
> will stay online as benny is the maintainer of it, but a new one can be 
> available shortly (need a webmaster)
> 
> All of this requires at least a group of -lets say- at least 5 *active* 
> people. I can do the organisation but for me that's where it ends too. 
> so... Chairmain Brian?
> 

Brian, I really hope you want to try this. Erik has mentioned he wants to work
on it as well. Personally I'm very interested in this effort, but there is no
way I can find enough time to play a leading role -- I barely manage to 
maintain the panel.

Btw, I really like 'Nomad' as the name.

So we do need some C coders to fill in the backend functionality. We could
perhaps ask on the Xfce list as well.

	Jasper