Add package to Xfce

[André Miranda]

That's a really interesting project, but it seems to fill a very specific
niche, users of Xfdesktop that don't want to use Thunar.
While Xfce strives to be modular and allows users to mix and match its
components as they see fit, I think that Xfdesktop has a soft dependency on
Thunar, which can be disabled with --disable-desktop-icons and
--disable-thunarx.
At this point it would be better to just use feh or something similar, if
you still want Xfdesktop + icons, that's not possible without Thunar,
unless you use a workaround like your project.

Even though I appreciate your effort and understand your motivations, I
don't think it makes sense as an Xfce project because it solves a very very
specific problem.
I may be wrong, if people from other places find it useful I can change my
opinion. Also if other Xfce dev agrees in adopting your project, I won't
oppose.

As for the package name, I don't see any problem using "xfce4-", as long as
you don't advertise it as an official project.

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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