What are the objectives for Xfce 4.4?

[Benedikt Meurer]

Erik Harrison wrote:
> On Tue, 01 Feb 2005 20:50:40 +0100, Benedikt Meurer
> <benedikt.meurer at unix-ag.uni-siegen.de> wrote:
> 
>>Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
>>
>>>>* xffm to be replaced by a smaller, simpler, more basic file manager.
>>>
>>>Actually, I'd like to see no file manager in the core whatsoever.
>>
>>Thats what I'm trying to tell for a long time: Have no 3rd party apps in
>>core.
>>
>>
>>>Well,
>>>sorta.  I think we should have a really stripped-down file view widget
>>>with file-management capabilities in libxfcegui4 (or if it ends up being
>>>to large, perhaps its own library).  Xfdesktop can optionally create an
>>>instance of this widget (by dlopen()ing it if its in its own library)
>>>for the desktop, and a separate file manager binary could do something
>>>similar, and implement a configuration interface and a host of other
>>>nifty things.  But this file manager need not be in the core.
>>>
>>>I'm really *really* against folding desktop management duties into the
>>>file manager a la nautilus.  It just doesn't make sense, IMHO, and makes
>>>it difficult for users to a) use Xfce's file manager with a different
>>>DE, or b) use Xfce with a different file manager.  I'm actually
>>>surprised that was suggested, as it seems like quite the opposite of
>>>modularity.
>>
>>I really *klemmer* this idea. I don't see why a file manager shouldn't
>>be desktop-independent, or why it should reduce Xfce's modularity, but I
>>see that such a `file view widget library' will surely become a
>>maintaince problem.
> 
> 
> I think that, really, the 2.6 icon view does this already.

Ehm, no. GtkIconView provides an icon view (as the name suggests), it 
has nothing to do with file management.

Benedikt