Add package to Xfce

André Miranda andre42m at gmail.com
Thu May 21 22:48:05 CEST 2020


Hi Thomas,
Is this intended to be used with Xfdesktop?

Cheers,
Andre Miranda

On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 5:20 PM Thomas Castleman <contact at draugeros.org>
wrote:

> Forgot to include the link. Sorry about that.
> https://github.com/drauger-os-development/xfce4-desktop-service
> On 5/21/20 3:34 PM, Thomas Castleman wrote:
>
> Hey everyone!
>
>
> I have been working on a package that I am calling (for now)
> xfce4-desktop-service.
>
> The purpose of this package is to provide the D-Bus service Thunar
> normally provides if Thunar is not present. Essentially, allowing users to
> have whatever file manager they want, and have desktop icons. That way,
> they don't need multiple file managers installed.
>
>
> I am wanting to make this package part of the official Xfce project, that
> way it will be easier to get it up-stream for others to use.
>
> It is currently written in Python, and I am still working on getting a
> couple small bugs out. But for the most part it is working correctly.
>
> If I need to convert it to C to have it included in Xfce that's fine. If i
> could have some help doing that, that would be fantastic as I'm a little
> rusty on C/C++.
>
> If it doesn't get pulled into Xfce, is it alright if I leave the package
> name, or will I be required to change it?
>
>
> Thanks!
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