contributing a panel plugin

Liviu Andronic landronimirc at gmail.com
Tue Aug 19 11:58:27 CEST 2014


On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 10:34 AM, OmegaPhil <OmegaPhil00 at startmail.com> wrote:
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> On 19/08/14 05:05, Jarryd Beck wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I wrote a panel plugin that displays system resource graphs, much
>> like the Gnome 2 panel app with the same functionality. It is
>> available at https://github.com/jarro2783/xfce4-sysinfo-plugin I'm
>> wondering what it would take for it to become an official XFCE
>> plugin. I'm willing to be its maintainer.
>>
>> Jarryd Beck
>>
>>
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>
> Sounds similar to my project to port the GNOME Hardware Monitor
> applet: https://github.com/OmegaPhil/hardware-monitor-applet
>
> Just saying for reference. I'll also be trying to get it upstream at
> some point, the current stall is cowdancer not being in Debian Testing

> - - however if yours gets into Goodies, then I guess my project would be
> a dupe and wouldn't be allowed? That would save me some hassle ;)
>
Unlikely. To my knowledge Xfce has quite loose policies on non-core
packages. At one point we even had two Archive managers: Xarchiver and
Squeeze. If the names are different, I wouldn't expect any issues if
you attempt official inclusion in Goodies.

Liviu


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