Projects in xfce repos, ehm...
Brian J. Tarricone
bjt23 at cornell.edu
Thu Nov 20 20:25:54 CET 2008
Christian Dywan wrote:
> 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 :)
Except that xfdesktop and other goodies depend specifically on thunar
for a decent amount of functionality...
> 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.
I'd agree for Thunar, but I'm not so sure about Terminal...
-brian
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