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Hello all, |
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You /may/ have noticed some fuzz going on with XFCE lately. Here is a |
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quick outline of what Samuli and myself (mainly him though with my |
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'consulting' =P ) have been doing. |
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- pkg renames: We want to match what upstream calls the packages. This |
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includes renaming plugins to $foo-plugin instead of just $foo. But not |
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ALL plugins, again we are only matching what upstream calls them |
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(inclusive of inconsistency by upstream) |
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- xfce4.eclass vs xfconf.eclass: xfce4.eclass was basically useless due |
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to upstream changes and it was confusing to users and devs alike. Since |
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this eclass went from useful to people that knew it (before me) to a |
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monster that didn't help anyone (now) it was deprecated. No ebuilds use |
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it now and none should in the future. Use xfconf.eclass now, it was |
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re-written from scratch and went through a few iterations to become the |
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main xfce-related eclass. It is very useful for us, now. |
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- xfce-extras meta package: The meta package has left the tree in favor |
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of the renames and ability to allow the user to choose what to install. |
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A meta package /might/ come back in the form of a @set, but not soon. |
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This decision was heavily based on community feedback: |
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http://blog.jolexa.net/2009/08/01/gentoo-how-to-handle-xfce-extras/ |
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- xfce-config.xml: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/xfce-config.xml Josh |
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(nightmorph) updated this, basically an after thought by us so thanks Josh! |
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- xfce4-meta : former name xfce-base/xfce4. Renamed to reflect reality. |
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This meta package is the *core* of XFCE, it *only* has in it what is |
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required to run. Thus, returning XFCE to a minimalistic status in Gentoo |
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Linux. This is desired because most XFCE users are looking for a |
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lightweight WM, not a heavy DE. So, users will have to add a terminal, |
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orage, thunar, etc to the world file instead of relying on a meta package. |
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- xfce-4.4 was removed. Sorry mips, Samuli gave you time to add your |
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approval to 4.6, but it never happened. |
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- Stabilization requests, just bringing the stable tree more up2date and |
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preparing for inclusion into the LiveDVD if desired by the LiveDVD builders. |
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Hope that helps anyone that was wondering wtf was going on lately =D |
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-Jeremy |
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