Projects in xfce repos, ehm...

Brian J. Tarricone bjt23 at cornell.edu
Thu Nov 20 23:18:18 CET 2008


Mike Massonnet wrote:
> Le Thu, 20 Nov 2008 11:47:57 -0800,
> "Brian J. Tarricone" <bjt23 at cornell.edu> a écrit :
> 
>> Mike Massonnet wrote:
>>
>>> 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.
>> MacOSX and Winows are OSes, not desktop environments.  GNOME and KDE 
>> include everything, including the kitchen sink.  Xfce has made a 
>> conscious decision not to emulate that.
>>
>> While I'm not entirely convinced Terminal should be removed from the 
>> core, these arguments don't really apply...
> 
> It is hard to argue positive, it's not important if it resides in core
> or goodies (no core components depends on it, unlike thunar).  I only
> see that application more important than "goodies".
> 
> Now even though it gets thrown to the goodies, I would simply download
> it and compile it as usual.

Of course, from a user perspective, it's entirely irrelevant where 
things go.  But personally, I'd prefer to only keep stuff in the main 
xfce repo that we actually distribute with the xfce "core," so I'd like 
to move some stuff out, time permitting.

	-brian



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