[Thunar-dev] Developing a new app for Xfce

[Jean-François Wauthy]

On Thu, 2007-01-25 at 17:33 +0200, Jani Monoses wrote:
> Then look if any of those, and the likeliest candidates are GNOME apps 
> could use some patching to make them lighter which would then benefit 
> both desktop users. There is little value in starting from scratch and 
> making yet another app, users nowadays are confused enough by the 
> variety of apps in many areas due to me-too attitudes which lead to 
> half-finished and unmaintained projects. Honestly who needs yet another 
> text editor, IM client, cd burner and the list could go on. There is a 
> lot of value in writing them _for the developer_ but to users it's not 
> valuable unless it really comes out great.
> 
> Xfce is thunar, xfdesktop, panel, session and xfwm. These were written 
> from scratch are are significantly different from their GNOME 
> counterparts. Other projects under the xfce umbrella are not nearly as 
> essential and defining as these, and users and distro makers often 
> replace them with others.

I understand your point, really. But, as you quickly pointed out, most
of us (in fact all of us i think) write code for fun first and sometimes
to learn things too. Making plans to conquer the world of desktop
environment comes later IMHO :) but is a great side effect.

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