Removing parts from xfce4gui4

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Mon Nov 19 07:19:28 CET 2007


On Mon, Nov 19, 2007 at 07:17:49AM +0100, mike wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 18, 2007 at 09:40:15PM +0100, Bernhard Walle wrote:
> > * Brian J. Tarricone <bjt23 at cornell.edu> [2007-11-18 20:41]:
> > > > 
> > > > Yeah, in Gtk ^_^.
> > > 
> > > Right, but apparently it can be worked around -- Stafan's tray proves
> > > that.  We have a long history of working around various bugs in our
> > > systray, and it's somewhat sad that we've lost all those little bug
> > > fixes with your rewrite.
> > 
> > Also, should such core functionality really depend on Python? I don't
> > think so.
> 
> Tha's not on-topic.  Stefan worked on another systray, and python is
> just a fine option if you want it to be done quickly, e.g. no
> compilation is needed, and there is less code to type.
> 
> Xfce ships core components written in C, and it will remain that way,
> until we hit Xfce 5 we a new $something rewrite ^_^.
                      ^^^ with 
> 
> >        Bernhard
> 
> mike



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