About Thunar development

Landry Breuil landry.breuil at gmail.com
Wed Oct 29 08:49:48 CET 2014


Fwiw,

for the maintenance work i do on some panel plugins + testing the dev
releases and reporting bugs, i use my daily operating system.. OpenBSD,
with vim as IDE.
You dont need a specific linux distro nor a specific IDE to contribute to
Xfce :)
Some people like geany as IDE, since it's also GTK+ and lightweight.

On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 4:48 AM, Jose Dario Navarro <yonarox at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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