Projects in xfce repos, ehm...

Mike Massonnet mmassonnet at gmail.com
Thu Nov 20 20:44:16 CET 2008


Hey,

Le Thu, 20 Nov 2008 19:00:20 +0100,
Christian Dywan <christian at twotoasts.de> a écrit :

> 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?

Sure thing.

> > >> 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.

FWIW, Mac OS X has its Terminal, Windows has its Terminal, GNOME and
KDE, and prolly Étoilé.

I would say yes for everything but not the Terminal.  Xfce must have
its default Terminal.

List the (essential) apps to be with the core instead.

Cheers
Mike



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