Why not reusing more GNOME components?

[Alistair Buxton]

Xfce already ships a lot of GNOME apps. As many as possible, in fact.
In every case where there is a duplication of effort, the reason is
one of the following:

1. The GNOME app lacks a particular feature and the maintainer refuses
to accept patches which would implement it.
2. The GNOME app has a hard dependency on something that is
unacceptable for our users, and the maintainer refuses to accept
patches which would make the dependency optional.
3. The GNOME app does not work correctly outside of Gnome Shell and
the maintainer refuses to accept patches which would fix it.


On 29 August 2014 15:11, Sébastien Wilmet <swilmet at gnome.org> wrote:
> 1. Help the maintenance of gnome-panel.

I've been watching the gnome-panel (now gnome-flashback) mailing list
and it really looks to me like that project is completely dead, with
the lead maintainer actively trying to kill it by, yes you've guessed
it, refusing patches. If you enjoy using GNOME 2 with GNOME
applications I would suggest you use MATE instead, as it is actively
developed and welcomes contributions.



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Alistair Buxton
a.j.buxton at gmail.com