Projects in xfce repos, ehm...

[Stephan Arts]

On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 12:02 AM, Christian Dywan
<christian at twotoasts.de> wrote:
> Am Thu, 20 Nov 2008 22:55:52 +0100
> schrieb Jannis Pohlmann <jannis at xfce.org>:
>
>> Hey,
>>
>> Am Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:39:08 +0100
>> schrieb "Stephan Arts" <stephan at xfce.org>:
>>
>> Personally I wouldn't mind to include more programs into the Core like
>> for power management and notifications for example, because those
>> make the desktop complete (IMHO Terminal, mousepad and orage are
>> essential even though I don't use mousepad).
>> But I think what really matters is that more Core stuff does not make
>> releasing more complex. I feel that this should be one of the things
>> to focus on in the upcoming months.
>>
>> I also think there's room for improvements concerning the goodies
>> releases. Important goodies should get more attention and should maybe
>> get their own niché somewhere between core and goodies. Hmmm.
>>
>> Personal opinion: Consider more applications as part of the Core (but
>> choose carefully) and don't make a big deal out of whether an
>> application is Core or not.
>
> I also think currently the definition of what 'Core' actually is, seems
> to be a little unclear, especially seeing how mixed the replies in this
> thread are I see that confirmed.
>
> Maybe there should actually be three categories, let me attempt to give
> a deliberate definition.
>
> Core: Components one needs in order to run a system in a useful way.
> That includes roughly panels, window manager, whatever xfdesktop is,
> the various settings applications, power management.
> ^^ All of those should be stable. For instance, if the powermanager
> isn't stable, I'd rather not see it there until it is.
>
> Apps: Applications that are useful, that really many Xfce users would
> use, but that are essentially replaceable. Such as terminal, file
> manager, editor, archiver, image viewer, media player.
> ^^ Thunar is a special one: it cannot practically be independant from
> Core, but semantically for me it should be.

The reason for that is the dependency several apps have on thunar-vfs.
A solution to that would be to extract thunar-vfs from thunar, but it
in core with 4.8, and deprecate it over time.


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Stephan