About Thunar development

[Jose Dario Navarro]

I have some questions, for you as xfce developers...

what is the distro that do you use for develop? and what IDE do you prefer
for do it?

(can be any distro, but what do you prefer)

thnks a lot

On Sat, Oct 25, 2014 at 7:21 PM, Tim Tassonis <timtas at cubic.ch> wrote:

>
>
> On October 25, 2014 11:12:36 PM Steve Dodier-Lazaro <sidnioulz at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>  Ricardo,
>>
>> I don't see why Thunar would be replaced.
>>
>
> That was me suggesting that. Not because I hate Thunar, but because it
> sounded like nobody was interested in maintaing it and pcmanfm seems to be
> alternative that suits xfce well.
> But certainly didn't want to start a thunar vs pcmanfm war, if there are
> people willing to maintain thunar, then there's no need for a switch for me
> at all.
> Kind regards
> Tim
>
>
> Whilst Xfce lets its users
>
>> cherry-pick the packages they want (so that you can use Xfce with
>> another file manager, unlike other DEs), Thunar is a core element of
>> the Xfce experience. Thunar is about the same things as Xfce: simple,
>> modular, functional. In Xfce I believe we all care about user
>> experience, about making intuitive and uncluttered interfaces and
>> letting people opt in for complexity. Last time I had a look at LXDE,
>> it had very different values. If I had to look at how Pcmanfm works
>> and engage in discussions on how consistent its UI is, whether it
>> offers the UX we want for the typical Xfce user's typical tasks, it
>> would probably end up being very close to Thunar. Yet the developers
>> (whose time is critically precious these days) would have to use a
>> different codebase written with a different toolkit, and in the end
>> produce a larger (more deps), less consistent desktop to integrate
>> into distros.
>>
>> Hence if anybody ever cares about my opinion on Thunar, I'd say "let's
>> fix the bugs, polish it a bit further but let's NOT replace it ever".
>> I like Thunar.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> 2014-10-25 20:35 GMT+01:00 Tim Tassonis <timtas at cubic.ch>:
>> > On October 25, 2014 9:01:52 PM Ricardo Biehl <rbpoficial at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> >> The last email to Thunar-dev(mailing list) was sent in March of this
>> year.
>> >> The Thunar is a important file manager on Xfce project and develop
>> can't
>> >> stopped because yet are there many bugs and missing features compared
>> with
>> >> others files manager. I open this discussion to who want talk about the
>> >> Thunar development.
>> >
>> > I would propose switching to pcmanfm as file manager. It seems to have
>> all
>> > the required features, seems faster than thunar and under active
>> > development. Have been using it in xfce forva year now on a daily basis
>> with
>> > no problems.
>> >
>> > Kind regards
>> > Tim
>> >> Big hug.
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >>
>> >> *(rbp - ricardo biehl pasquali)*
>> >>
>> >> *OFICIAL*
>> >>
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