[project-proposal] xfce4ring

[Benedikt Meurer]

Stephan Arts wrote:
> Currently (xfce 4.0 4.2 and 4.4) uses the xfce-mcs-manager for
> configuration purposes.
> 
> Though Xfce 4.4 is still at BETA stage, i would like to start a
> discussion about the development of a possible successor of
> xfce-mcs-manager.
> 
> Thinks i think we should be able to do with it are:
> (Thanks to ElAngelo)
> 
> 1. Support MetaThemes
> 2. Support dnd for theme installation
> 3. Plugin grouping, ordering plugins by group
> 4. Allow writing plugins with scripting-languages like python / ruby / perl.
> 
> 1) - (Complete theme-packages for wm, gtk, icons and perhaps even wallpaper)
> 
> 2) - ( ~/.themes is too complicated for most new users)
> 
> 3) - (this way we can make the GUI less cluttered.)
> 
> 4) - (This probably means we cannot use gmodule for it anymore)
> 
> I would like to know what your ideas are about this.

There was discussion about this earlier and there is a prototype,
xprefs. The GUI stuff is more or less trivial. What's way more important
is to decouple the user interface from the settings storage.

I wanted to wait for D-Conf tho. Anyway this is a post 4.4 item and from
my experience, this should not be discussed now, there are more
important things to address first.

> Stephan

Benedikt
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