Projects in xfce repos, ehm...

Mark Trompell mark at foresightlinux.org
Fri Nov 21 12:16:45 CET 2008


On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 11:04 AM, Tim Tassonis <timtas at cubic.ch> wrote:
<snip>
> Seconded. I also still have this notion that a desktop environment should
> include a working file manager, a simple editor and a decent Terminal
> application. If it doesn't, it isn't a desktop enviroment to me, but rather
> a window manager with some utilities. Whether they are replaceable is
> irrelevant.
>
> I'd also include ristretto in core, as viewing images is a quite essential
> feature for many users and they usually don't want to start thinking about
> the choice of a simple image viewer, just to look at some photograph they
> got.

Most of these users don't compile Xfce from source though, most of
them get it from their distributions.
So in most cases it's up to the distribution, what they deploy as
default Xfce setup.

> Tim

Mark

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