App idea

[Danny Milosavljevic]

Hi,

Am Mittwoch, den 22.03.2006, 13:38 +0100 schrieb Benedikt Meurer:
> Colossus wrote:
> > Hi,
> 
> Hey Giuseppe,
> 
> > I'm the main developer of Xarchiver, my name is Giuseppe Torelli.
> > Daniele Favara told me about this thread. We' re willing to cooperate
> > with xfce developers to have Xarchiver the archive manager for XFCE.
> > The status of the development is available at the Roadmap link on the
> > xarchiver web page. The current code can be retrieved with bzr but I'm
> > available to switch to svn. Currently I'm coding the switchs from the
> > command line such as --extract and --add so to allow the integration
> > with Thunar.
> > 
> > I'm waiting for someone of you to reply,
> 
> I'd vote for integrating Xarchiver into Xfce. There's certainly some
> stuff to be done for Xarchiver (the first being to improve the
> portability), but otherwise it's already in good shape and Giuseppe
> was/is already working on integration into Xfce (actually Thunar).
> 
> So if nobody complains it should be merged into Xfce SVN (if Auke
> agrees). 
> I think both Xfce and Xarchiver will benefit from this merge.
> Xfce needs a good archive manager (as Auke already explained) -
> file-roller is really heavy for lightweight distros and the focus is on
> GNOME - and on the other side Giuseppe is looking for additional
> developers/help, not to forget the huge list of translators that are
> working on Xfce.

Very nice... I'm in favour of doing that :)

cheers,
  Danny