Dependencies on external dead projects

Stephan Arts stephan at xfce.org
Fri Feb 15 00:23:49 CET 2008


On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 9:58 PM, Nick Schermer <nickschermer at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2008/2/14, Alexander E. Patrakov <patrakov at gmail.com>:
>
> >  IMHO, the optimal solution would be to drop xfce4-tips and xfprint (and disable printing in Mousepad - removing a non-working menu option is never a regression).
>
>  My mousepad branch (nick_0_3) uses the gtk print backend and will
>  replace the mousepad shipped in 4.4. So that problem is fixed for 4.6.
>  If we want to ship xfprint in 4.6 is not my business, but i don't
>  think it necessarily needed.

Xfprint rules, but it could be replaced by a thunar-print-plugin or something.

On the other hand, a custom action or plugin using xfprint works just as well.

>
>  Xfce4-tips just needs to be fixed: ie. display our tips without the
>  dependency on fortune. That not very hard to do, but as always,
>  shouting at other people is one thing, helping them the other one...
>
>  Nick

Just some thoughts ;-)

Stephan



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