xfce roadmap

[daniele favara]

Thank you all for your availability, and for keeping xfce4 so cool :).

Summary:

* xfdesktop will be deprecated when 4.4 | thunar will be released
[fine for usability and to have "control" on root window]
* xfmedia can use dvd:// to find the device [fine for a vm]
* it's true .. xfce devels don't like desktop icons [they're advanced
users and don't remeber how much can help a desktop icon the first
time you're in GNU/Linux :) ]

ciao

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On 12/23/05, sofar <sofar at foo-projects.org> wrote:
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> On Fri, 23 Dec 2005 18:41:46 +0100, daniele favara <danjele at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 1) desktop icons
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> > Someone told me that xfce4 devels don't like them, i personally don't
> > need them but an user that boot for the first time in xfce4 will be
> > lost i think.
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> that's a LIE - some of use "have no use for desktop icons" ;^)
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> seriously enough: you should follow thunar development which should (at one point) support desktop icons.
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> > I mean desktop icons for devices.
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> that would be included of course, see also Benedikt's comment
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> > 2) Xfedesktop and the root window
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> > i really love xfce4 but let me say ... I hate xfdesktop, esetroot is a
> > small app and can control the root window much better.
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> then use Esetroot
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> > What are your plans about this ?
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> xfdesktop will (most likely) be retired after Thunar supports desktop icons - Brian is currently already not developing Xfdesktop anymore. Consider it "ready for disposal".
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> > 4) Xfmedia
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> > for a volume manager it would be really nice to play directly a dvd or
> > audio-cd with xfmedia, i didn't find any option to do this.
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> it's already possible - xfmedia uses xine so you should be able to play "dvd://"
>  directly - I've done this often enough.
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> Auke
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