Poll

Ja'far Railton ja.far at zen.co.uk
Sun Jun 27 20:38:48 CEST 2004


On Sat, 26 Jun 2004 18:01:01 +0200
Olivier <fourdan at xfce.org> wrote:

> "Xfce"

There seems to be a lot of uneccessarily big F's floating around then
- in "About XFce" for example (see below). Could this be
indicative of a serious rift within the "The XFce Development
Team"? I think we should be told. And will anyone volunteer to "case
cleanse" the documentation?

> XFce 4 Desktop Environment
> version 4.0.5
> 
> XFce is a collection of programs that together provide a full-featured
> desktop environment. The following programs are part of XFce:
> 
> o Window manager (xfwm4)
>    handles the placement of windows on the screen
> 
> o Panel (xfce4-panel)
>    program launchers, popup menus, clock, desktop switcher and more
> 
> o Desktop manager (xfdesktop)
>    sets a background color or image and provides a menu when you click
> on    the desktop background
> 
> o File manager (xffm)
>    fast file manager
> 
> o Utilities
>    xfprint4: print files
>    xfrun4: run programs
>    xftaskbar4: simple taskbar with optional pager and system tray
>    xfce4-iconbox: show minimized apps in an icon box
> 
> 
> XFce 4 is also a development platform providing several libraries,
> that help programmers create applications that fit in well with the
> desktop environment.
> 
> XFce 4 components are licensed under free or open source licences, GPL
> or BSDL for applications and LGPL or BSDL for libraries. Look at the
> documentation, the source code or the xfce website
> (http://www.xfce.org) for more information.
> 
> 
> Thank you for your interest in XFce.
> 
>                 -- The XFce Development Team --

-- 
Ja'far



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