request for enhancement: note missing items for control panel

[Olivier Fourdan]

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Alexander Toresson wrote:
> On 11/24/06, Anthony Ewell <aewell at gbis.com> wrote:
>>
>> To my astonishment, CentOS 4.4 does not include
>> switchdesk-gui (switchdesk-gui.py) with its
>> "workstation" install (the "all" installation does
>> get it).
>>
>> XFce 4.2 will show switch desk gui in its control panels of
>> configuration tools only if it can find it.
>>
>> Please consider showing a blank icon with some kind
>> of message when the control panel can not find an
>> item.  This would tip the user off that something
>> is missing and would reduce a lot of frustration.
>>
> 
> I don't really know if this would be desirable, as Xfce is modular,
> that is, you don't need to use all components in Xfce at the same
> time, or maybe only one of the components. Because of that, users who
> do that shouldn't get a lot of unnecessary warnings. Anyway, whatever
> switchdesk-gui is, it's not part of Xfce upstream, it's something
> CentOS adds, and the devs couldn't add checks for it anyway.

Well, yes and no. MCS wrappers for these tools would be easy to write,
similarly to what is done for xscreensaver (if I remember, someone even
wrote a sample plug-in exactly for that purpose)

As I see it, it would rather be written by CentOS or Fedora port
maintainer(s) as part of product integration, rather than us writing a
wrapper for every single gui tool that comes on every distribution
and/or OS.

Cheers,
Olivier.
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