xfdesktop future

[Brian J. Tarricone]

Hi all,

Sorry for the cross-post, but I think this is relevant to both lists, at 
least initially.  Feel free to drop one or the other of your reply list 
if you feel otherwise.

After participating in discussion as to what Thunar (Xfce's new file 
manager, for those of you out of the loop) is going to be like, it 
occurs to me that there still may be people that want to use a file 
manager (maybe ours, maybe not), and have icons on the desktop (and have 
them look Xfce-ish: that is, they may not want to use Nautilus, etc. to 
draw their desktop).  It further occurs to me that there may also be 
people (possibly including myself, depending on how Thunar turns out) 
who don't really want to use a file manager, but who might still want 
icons on their desktop.

So, I'm going to implement desktop icon support in xfdesktop, and 
hopefully we'll use some or all of that code for Thunar's 
desktop-drawing support (assuming that's still something Thunar is going 
to do).  It'll be modular, like the menu, and can be unloaded and 
removed completely if you don't want it, so if I hear any complaints 
about bloat, I'm going to personally come to your house and call 
gtk_widget_destroy(your_computer).  Or I'll send nestu to do it.  The 
goal is to mimic Thunar's icon view, so it looks and behaves similarly, 
so I'll adapt to that as it evolves.

Any thoughts?

    -brian