[Thunar-dev] Clearance

[Jeff Franks]

Benedikt Meurer wrote:

>Olivier Fourdan wrote:
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>>>It would be a shame if the project were to fork. Forks are often a waste of
>>>resources, especially at such an early stage.
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>>IMHO, there is not much to fork yet. It all depends on the goals.
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>>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.
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>>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.
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>Thunar's goals are well-known 
>(http://thunar.xfce.org/wiki/requirements:goal
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You keep eluding the fact! What do you want to do? What are you going to 
do? You say Thunar goals are well known. Well here they are:

* Easy to use
* Clean interface
* High degree of maintainability
* Portability
* Standard compliance
* Performance
* Accessibility

So which goals do you have a problem with? Over the past few months 
thunar-dev has dealt with the first two: ease of use and a clean 
interface. The last five require some written code before they can be 
judged. The thunar-dev members now seem to have reached a point where 
they would like to see some code. You are the Thunar project leader. The 
past several months have given you great insight into what USERS want. 
Now you have an interface template to work with. It's your 
responsibility as project leader to lay down the coding rules and write 
the first code. If you have already done that, and Python it is, then 
you need to say so. Otherwise you need to decide on the language Thunar 
will use and get started. On the other hand, if you have lost interest 
and wont say so because you are not sure whether you want to continue or 
not, you can't expect Xfce4 to wait. It needs a new file manager. So 
tell us, thunar rather than later, what it is going to be?

Benny, Thunar  has generated a lot interest and judging by the number of 
thunar-dev members it has a lot of support. I can only wish that XFC had 
the same level of interest and support. As you know, I can help with 
C++, and C by defacto, but I don't do Python - I've never had to.

Regards,
Jeff.