pinboard

[Benjamin Rich]

This is probably an old question, but I'm still wondering when XFCE 
might have it's own pinboard app?

xfce.org seems to recommend using ROX-Filer or some other pinboard in 
the mean time, but Rox just barely cuts the mustard - it's file manager 
is annoying, you can't define the size of it's pinboard, and so on. The 
only thing which makes it bearable is that a patch either to XFCE or ROX 
recently now means that applications on the pinboard aren't bound to 
their desktops of origin. So, an application minimized to the pinboard 
in say, desktop 1 (if you're using 5 or 6 virtual desktops, as I do) 
will maximize again when you click on it in desktop 3, without going 
back to desktop 1 instead.

It seems odd that the two features in XFCE which are most needed to make 
it complete, and also a true functional mirror of the original CDE, are 
the very packages that aren't being released - session manager and 
pinboard. The session manager is easily stable enough (I've been using 
it from source since 0.1.1) but remains constantly masked in the portage 
tree in gentoo (and unavailable elsewhere) - and of course there seems 
to be no pinboard app at all.

Are there any plans to finally release a pinboard component for XFCE? 
Even a simple copy+paste of the ROX-Filer code, with some tweaks to make 
the icon size and placing boundries a little more bearable, I think 
would be a perfect start. Nay, I shall even attempt to write this 
particular component if anybody's with me on the notion.

So, anybody with me?

-Ben