contributing a panel plugin

[OmegaPhil]

On 19/08/14 10:58, Liviu Andronic wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 10:34 AM, OmegaPhil <OmegaPhil00 at startmail.com> wrote:
> 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

OK - I will continue as planned, thanks.

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