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[Steve Dodier-Lazaro]

A warm welcome back, Ali!

Cheers,

On 7 October 2015 at 17:10, Ali Abdallah <aliovx at gmail.com> wrote:

> I perfectly agree, let's just port things for the moment. As an exception,
> I'll fix the thing of pluggability  as I already have some code.
>
> BTW, while making the configuration of Thunar pluggable, I discovered a
> possible Gtk bug present in version 2 and 3 as well. If you use GtkImage
> with markup link, you don't get anymore the "activate-link" signal when you
> plug in a socket. I submitted a bug report with some minimal code to
> illustrate the bug.
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=756106
>
> Cheers,
> Ali
>
>
> On 10/07/2015 05:17 PM, Simon Steinbeiss wrote:
>
> Hey Ali and welcome back! :)
>
> Replying inline...
>
> On Wed, Oct 7, 2015 at 2:25 PM Ali Abdallah <aliovx at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> This is just to share with everybody that I'll slowly restart my
>> contributions to my preferred project, Xfce.
>>
> I'm currently working to make the settings dialogs that are not
>> pluggable in the settings manager, pluggable. Also, I'm developing three
>> news settings dialogs (User settings, locales and time/date). I'll also
>> join the effort to port Xfce to gtk3 and get rid of dbus-glib in favor
>> of gdbus.
>>
>
> There's actually a roadmap for the next stable release, Xfce 4.14 (
> https://wiki.xfce.org/releng/4.14/roadmap), and we decided not to
> implement any new features but to instead focus on porting to Gtk3.
> Obviously this is not as fun as implementing features, but we really need
> to get this done and the way we decided to do it most efficiently (also in
> terms of minimizing regression potential) is by porting 1:1.
> I personally welcome the settings manager improvements you suggest, but as
> I said, first I think we need to port to Gtk3. (We could make exceptions
> for things like making all dialogs pluggable, as that might not really be
> seen as a new feature but as a current bug I guess, but we should discuss
> our stance on this.)
>
> Note that Nick started with the user settings a longer time ago, not sure
> why and how it stalled, but you can still find it here:
> http://git.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-settings/log/?h=nick/accountsservice
>
>
>> Depends upon how much free time I get, I might also work on the power
>> manager and Parole. (probably there is no need, as both are perfectly
>> maintained!)
>>
>
> There are always things to fix and improve, so feel free to get in touch
> with me or Sean about this ;)
>
>
>> * Anybody with access rights to the server please pm me, I need to
>> update my ssh public key so I regain commit access to git.
>>
>
> You can get in touch with either me or Landry on IRC (maybe you already
> have, I'm just about to leave the office so I can't check) and we can set
> you up.
>
> So again, welcome back!
> Cheers
> Simon
>
>
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Steve Dodier-Lazaro
PhD Student
University College London
Free Software Developer
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