About xfdesktop with GIO

Daniel Morales daniel at daniel.com.uy
Wed Feb 17 17:55:36 CET 2010


> Please correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't that introduce a
> dependency on Thunar? I don't think that was the case before. What
> would happen if someone uses xfdesktop but Thunar is not running /
> installed?
> 

Currently if you compile xfdesktop with FileIcons support it
depends of Thunar-vfs... if we use the dbus API, Fileicons feature will
depend on Thunar.

If we use it will introduce some features like progress dialog as
Jannis said... also it will fix some xfdesktop issues (like copying
files, etc.)



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