App idea

[sofar]

On Wed, 22 Mar 2006 13:38:25 +0100, Benedikt Meurer <benedikt.meurer at unix-ag.uni-siegen.de> wrote:
> 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.

this is lovely! yay!

I certainly want to offer Xarchiver and Guiseppe all the resources he needs - I think that associating his project with Xfce will be a big boost for both him and us. We can merge Xarchiver in SVN quickly (apart from the bzr->svn transition problems of course, but I can work that out). and setup an xarchiver.xfce.org etc.

I hope Giuseppe can agree to this as well - it would mean some moving around from his point of view, but I can arrange all the base work for that and get him started quickly.

Auke