Projects in xfce repos, ehm...

[jp.guillemin]

Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
> 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...

Thunar is an essential part of XFCE, I don't think it's still possible 
to build xfdesktop without it...

>
>> 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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