[Thunar-dev] Summer of code revisited, freedesktop.org

Benedikt Meurer benedikt.meurer at unix-ag.uni-siegen.de
Mon Aug 28 23:16:46 CEST 2006


Jani Monoses wrote:
>>I just had a chat with some freedesktop.org people (Keith Packard and Bart 
>>Massay from PSU) who were surprised to hear that Xfce wasn't accepted as a 
>>google summer of code project. They are interested to see if Xfce may be able 
>>to piggy back on fd.o's projects and thus enter google's summer of code.
> 
> Another project Xfce could piggyback/share projects with may be OLPC. 
> With it's lower memory requirements it looks as a good fit for 128M 
> machines. So either further footprint reduction work or making sure Xfce 
>   modules all play well with 800x600 and 640x480 and black and white 
> screens could be ideas. It does not seem like too much fun though :)

IIRC atleast xfce4-panel and Thunar are already on TODO for some OLPC
subprojects (or whatever they call it).

Benedikt



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