Blocking bugs for Xfce-oriented distros

[Lionel Le Folgoc]

On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 11:44:33AM +0100, Nick Schermer wrote:
> Packagers,
> 
> A number of large distributions that use Xfce as their main desktop
> have 4.8 packed in their testing/beta images and live cd's; zenwalk,
> xubuntu and xfce fedora spin to name a few. Now since all packagers
> read this list I'd like to know what *blocking* bugs they have.
> 
> We know about trash on Xfdesktop, but any other stuff that needs to be
> fixed before the final versions are released? Also in non-core
> modules? Probably most of the bugs have been reported here and there,
> but I'd like to make a small list (on the wiki) of critical bugs we
> need to resolve; because Jannis and I and probably other developers too
> got a bit lost in the recent bug flow and I think we can coordinate
> this a bit better if the have a priority list (with milestones, people
> who work on it and status) of common bugs and plugins/apps that
> stopped working in 4.8.
> 
> Please report a bug first if there is none, and post the link in this
> discussion with a small description of the problem.
> 
> Nick

Hi,

Xubuntu natty isn't really widely tested yet (it's too early), so very
few (none) real crashers/blockers have been reported, but I encountered
some annoying integration issues making the life of a distributor a bit
more complicated. ;-)

* (Almost) all apps/plugins have been ported to exo-1 (new releases, or
patches in bugzilla), but thunar-vfs still requires some bits of
exo-0.3... I don't know whether it's intended or not (so whether I
should reintroduce an exo-0.3 package or wait for exo-mount to be
shipped in thunar-vfs): <http://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6998>.

* Garcon seems to read xdg data directories backwards, so it's
complicated to override a desktop file at the system level:
<http://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7187>.

* Similarly, Orage doesn't appear to support the xdg base dir spec at
all (this time, it's impossible for a distribution to provide a default
config): <http://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7192>.

* A new release of Thunar-archive-plugin has been made recently, doing
the same release/port/cleanup for Thunar-media-tags-plugin would be
great: <http://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2776>,
<http://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6297> and
<http://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6295>.

That's all for now. :p
Thanks!

Best,
Lionel

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