Xarchiver 0.5.0rc1 released

[Christoph Wickert]

Am Mittwoch, den 29.10.2008, 23:45 +0100 schrieb Giuseppe Torelli:
> On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 11:30 PM, Christoph Wickert
> <christoph.wickert at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > The main problem I see is that the websites are hardcoded in the app and
> > cannot be changed.
> > What if the content on the website is changed to something like
> > extremist political statements, warez, child porn, or just something we
> > can't subscribe to? What if a website gets compromised and turns into a
> > source for Trojans and viruses? Once the package is released nether
> > Guiseppe nor the maintainers from the distros can withdraw it.
> 
> Well, if the menu items do not open the link in the system installed
> browser it's responsibility of the user to write char after char the
> url in the browser address bar.

That's not the point I'm of my criticism. It's about that nobody can
change an URL that is hardcoded in the source once the packages have
been released.

So what do you think about my idea of a dedicated donators page at
xarchiver.xfce.org? By doing this you are always in control of the links
and you could even put fancy banners there if you like.

> > Personally I would not contribute in a project that annoys people with
> > an ad-ware like menu.
> 
> That menu doesn't annoy anyone if it's not clicked. It resided there
> in the menu bar and doesn't popup. If the user wants to see it it's up
> to him to click it and show its content. No one is bothered.

There were at least two people in this discussion who said that they are
(Ali and me). I _do_ mind a useless top level entry.

Guiseppe, I do respect that it's your decision in the end, but please
take the concerns I outlined in this discussion into account.

Thanks,
Christoph