Mandrake 8.2beta4 and XFce

[Olivier Fourdan]

William,

As far as I can tell, the default RPM package that we ship works fine
with Mandrake.

Why don't they just pick it up ? The problem with their packages comes
from the fact that they don't use "startxfce", but directly run xfwm. 

Cheers,
Olivier.

On Sun, 2002-03-10 at 03:11, William Bouterse wrote:
> Okay this is ridiculous......
> 
> Mandrake beta4 still has the same permission problem 
> with the default xfce install..."cannot create file"
> 
> I understand one of the main kde packagers for mandrakesoft also packages
> XFce unless this has changed recently...Obviously if this is true then the
> poor fellow must rarely have any time to do anything with xfce due to the
> massive flux and size of kde...
> 
> Is their anyone on this list with the competence to package for mandrakesoft and get this litany of screwups taken care of or has this
> already been tried and their implementation is just plain faulty and 
> cannot be changed due to their way of doing things !!?? 
> I have used Mandrake for several years and XFce for longer so I must
> admit if they continue to refuse to recognize the qualtiy of the WM they
> keep "jerking around" with their rpm implementation I may be led to 
> other distos again !!?
> 
> Its a good thing I am not a conspiracy theorist or one might wonder if
> they are casually sabatoging XFce's use by new users through neglect...
> 
> Thanks for listening to my rant if you have gotten this far !!
> 
> Mandrake 8.2rc1 has just been released..I wonder if this has been fixed.?
> 
> 
> William Bouterse
> Talkeetna, Ak
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