request for enhancement: gdmsetup

Brian J. Tarricone bjt23 at cornell.edu
Mon Nov 27 03:22:17 CET 2006


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Anthony Ewell wrote:
> Olivier Fourdan wrote:
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>> Anthony Ewell wrote:
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>>> switchdesk-gui is not part of XFce either, but it shows up
>>> in XFce's control panel, if XFce can find it.  They should
>>> fire it up and see what it does first.  Here's hoping they
>>> won't ignore me.
>> Dunno who you are refering as "they", but we are not making any plug-in
>> for switchdesk (a Red Hat tool IIRC), so it's your favorite distro
>> packager who provides that, not us...
> 
> Precisely!
> 
> What I would like is a warning if XFce can not
> find it!

Find what?

Why is it our job to provide this?  Your distro (apparently) added the
button for the switchdesk thing, so bug them about adding one for
gdmsetup.  This has nothing to do with us; we're not going to waste our
time providing settings manager wrappers for every single non-Xfce app
people might feel like using.

	-brian

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