future of mousepad/xfprint

[Nick Schermer]

On Sat, May 7, 2011 at 5:38 PM, Andreas Radke <a.radke at arcor.de> wrote:
> Is there any part of Xfce in 4.8 depending on xfprint anymore on a
> linux distribution? I guess the only app that makes use of it is
> mousepad.
>
> As mousepad seems almost dead and there are tons of good lightweight
> alternatives(leafpad,medit,...) I'm in the mood of dropping mousepad
> and xfprint from our repos unless you tell me a mousepad rewrite is
> right on the corner.

There is a rewrite of mousepad in development for some time now but
that still needs a bunch of work (with a half-backed gio version on my
pc). However it will not depend on xfprint, so it is indeed wise to
drop both for now, until a new mousepad emerges.

Nick