TODO post 4.8

[Jérôme Guelfucci]

On 17/01/11 13:40, jp.guillemin wrote:
> On 01/17/2011 12:30 PM, Jannis Pohlmann wrote:
>> On Mon, 17 Jan 2011 12:19:02 +0100
>> "jp.guillemin"<jp.guillemin at free.fr> wrote:
>>
>>> I would suggest to also add the Trash feature to xfdesktop asap, just
>>> my 2 cents...
>> I don't know what you mean. The trash works, the icon is just not
>> updated when there are items in it. That's a known bug but the trash is
>> there and it works (if GVfs is installed, that is).
>
> I rarely access the trash starting from Thunar, especially to empty it,
> and that's not just me. When the Trash is handling some files while
> still showing as "empty" on the Desktop : the "Empty Trash" desktop
> right-click menu item is also disabled : This is not consistent, and a
> very visible bug. Xfdesktop is also still carrying some other "visible"
> bugs ... probably noticed very quickly by any new user or reviewer.
>
> btw : in my opinion : the "3rd thing" ( :) ) that will be noticed by a
> new XFCE user is that launchers appear as "XXX.desktop" on the desktop
> (ie : the file thethunarlancher.desktop will be shown as a
> "thethunarlancher.desktop" launcher icon instead of a "Thunar" launcher
> icon : this doesn't look "clean" imho.
>
> So if you tell me that XFCE 4.8 provides great improvements over 4.6.x :
> obviously yes !
>
> but Xfdesktop is not finished, and Xfdesktop is the most "visible" part
> of XFCE.
>
> JP
>
>> - Jannis

Hello JP,

Jannis kindly did most of the work for Xfdesktop which has no maintainer 
at the moment! So yes, the soft is not perfect but there was no point in 
delaying things as we obviously lack the workforce to do everything the 
way we want. But still, you should be grateful that at least a part of 
the work was done and your mails does not reflect that at all.

Obviously, we won't be able to ship a perfect DE with a team containing 
less than 5 individuals who have a limited time. Bugs have been reported 
and will be worked on when time allows it, if you want to make things go 
faster, the only thing you can do is starting to work on patches (and 
I'm sure we can provide help for that).

Cheers,

Jérôme