[Thunar-dev] Clearance

[Olivier Fourdan]

On Wed, 2005-06-01 at 14:06 +0200, whistler at fnord.ch wrote:
> It would be a shame if the project were to fork. Forks are often a waste of
> resources, especially at such an early stage.

IMHO, there is not much to fork yet. It all depends on the goals.

My own goal, as the project leader of Xfce, was to get a lightweight,
simple file manager for Xfce as a replacement of Xffm which is showing
its age.

If Thunar choose to follow other goals, that's fine with me, but that's
not the file manager of choice for Xfce in the future.

As far as I'm concerned, all base components of Xfce are written in C,
and I think C is somehow more solid than Python for this kind of
applications (don't get me wrong, I have nothing against Python).

Right now, the need remains and I don't plan to wait for ever for Thunar
project to start.

Regards,
Olivier.