What are the objectives for Xfce 4.4?

[Biju Chacko]

Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
> Biju Chacko wrote:
>> * We need to get rid of the concept that one module == one package. 
>> The current plethora of packages is a pain and detracts from our image 
>> of being lightweight. Ideally, we ought to have just xfce-core, 
>> xfce-applications and xfce-devel. If we do this correctly, it should 
>> still be possible for people who only want a single module (most 
>> probably xfwm4) to get only it.
> 
> 
> I'm not seeing how this would work.  The first part seems to me to be 
> directly contradictory with the second.  If we have an xfce-core 
> package, how do you just install xfwm4 out of it?  Think of the 
> children!  Er... packagers.  I don't want to say "everyone else does it 
> the single package way, so we should too", but... well, yeah.  It's done 
> this way for a reason, and unless it's demonstrably better to do it 
> another way (I'm not convinced it is), then it should stay the same.

I was thinking that it should still be possible to checkout xfce4/xfwm4 
and get a buildable module, nothing more than that.


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>> * Move xfcalendar, xfterminal, xfmedia, mousepad into a separate 
>> project called 'xfce applications'. Add all new utilities to this 
>> project. Core probably already has all the modules that need to be there.
> 
> 
> Nuh-uh.  I like maintaining Xfmedia on my own website, and that's where 
> it's gonna stay.

Thats fine. The point is that there should be a clear focus on what the 
xfce project does, ie the desktop and only the desktop. Applications 
should be elsewhere, either in personal cvses like xfmedia or in a 
common repository for stuff that may be worked on by multiple people.

-- b