Projects in xfce repos, ehm...

Christian Dywan christian at twotoasts.de
Thu Nov 20 19:00:20 CET 2008


Am Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:27:24 +0100
schrieb "jp.guillemin" <jp.guillemin at free.fr>:

> Anders F Björklund wrote:
> > Stephan Arts wrote:
> >
> >> I was wondering... (please don't shoot me)
> >>
> >> Shouldn't the following projects belong inside the xfce-goodies 
> >> repositories?
> >>
> >>  - Squeeze
> >>  - Xarchiver
> >>  - Terminal
> >>  - Orage (xfcalendar)
> >>  - xfmedia
> >>  - mousepad
> >>
> >> They seem like add-ons to me.
> >
> > Terminal and Mousepad are in the default panel, so maybe those
> > should be in the main repository. Then again, they're missing from
> > the Betas ? So perhaps the Xfce Panel only needs "any terminal" and
> > "any editor", just like you can use different file managers and web
> > browsers with it.
> 
> The default panel provided in Zenwalk uses exclusively "exo-open" 
> commands... so it doesn't matters which 
> terminal/browser/media-player/mail-application is installed.

If you continue the equastion consequently you must also add Thunar to
the list of goodies :)

However I tend to think Terminal and Thunar are at least so essential
that it would be kind of wrong not to include them in the core.

ciao,
    Christian



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