4.4 ETA?

[Olivier Fourdan]

Hi Jani,

Jani Monoses wrote:
> We'll try to pick the best apps for everything and one of the reasons
> for me lurking on this list is to get help from you in deciding what
> 'best' is.

If I can raise my voice, I'd say that i wouldn't make  much sense to 
replace one of the core components of xfce with something else in the 
case of Ubuntu. It's not like if you were to build yet another brand new 
Linux distribution. Ubuntu comes with GNOME by default, and that's fine.

If you remove xfwm4 and replace it with metacity, or replace the panel 
with GNOME panel, xfdesktop with, humm, dunno what ;) or even replace 
Thunar with Nautilus, then what is the point of using Xfce at all? Users 
may choose to replace some components, that's the greatness of 
interoperability, but that's not the point.

Now, using evolution, gdm, GNOME terminal (although I personally prefer 
Benny's Terminal) would perfectly make sense IMHO. We have no plan to 
reinvent the wheel, build yet another Tetris, gimp, openoffice or whatever.

Of course, as a package maintainer, the choice remains yours, you can 
pick up any application you want to and build whatever fits the users 
needs best, the I'm just drawing my own views of the whole picture.

Cheers,
Olivier.