[Thunar-dev] Developing a new app for Xfce

[Jean-Francois Wauthy]

On Thu, 25 Jan 2007 13:42:58 +0300, Gregory Bonik <chaser at progtech.ru> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
Hi

> 
> Does Xfce try to be "closed", i.e. to keep a limited number of
> applications for it? Or is the appearance of such tutorial just a
> question of time? I think that appearance of different apps written
> specially for Xfce should bring more popularity and usability to it, so
> it's no reason to keep Xfce closed. Especially now, when Xfce becomes a
> _real_ desktop environment with own file manager etc.
> 

Xfce is not "closed", the problem is that our man power is limited and
therefore some cool things might be missing since we concentrate our
efforts on other parts. As Bennedikt already told you GTK+ is the base library
of Xfce, i guess the Internet has plenty of docs and tutorial about it; once
you know what you're doing with gtk i think having a look at the API 
documentation to see what it offers above gtk is a good move. libexo has some
interesting stuff too that might be worth a look before starting writing a
xfce4-games application.
 
And to finish Xfce is not so closed you know, i ended up with a CVS access 2
months after installing it :D

-- 
Jean-Francois Wauthy <pollux at xfce.org>