Re: Spins Freeze tomorrow, are we happy with the application selection?
Am Montag, den 08.02.2010, 15:38 -0600 schrieb Adam Miller:
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 11:28 AM, Christoph Wickert
<christoph.wickert(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
> Am Montag, den 08.02.2010, 10:42 -0600 schrieb Adam Miller:
>> Hello all,
>> As suggested by the subject line, the spins freeze is tomorrow
>
> IMHO the spin freeze is one of the worst ideas we ever had. I will ask
> the Spins SIG to revert this decision tonight because it was made under
> false assumptions (At least from my POV).
>
Sounds good, keep us posted I assume :)
Unfortunately I missed this in today's meeting. After 4 hours of
chatting I was afk for 5 minutes and that was just the time of the open
floor. :( I will bring it up again next week.
<snip>
>
> We talked about the app selection four weeks ago and I think we agreed
> to
> 1. drop gftp
> 2. drop totem in favor of parole, although we loose automatic codec
> install
Yup
I committed these changes today.
> 3. replace mousepad with leafpad. This will require a change
in the
> default config of xfce4-panel. Meanwhile there is a preview of
> the new mousepad which is a complete rewrite. I'd like to roll
> testing packages of it before we decide to switch to leafpad, so
> I don't think we should make this change now.
>
Agreed
mousepad 0.3.0 looks promising. You can find some testing packages at
http://cwickert.fedorapeople.org/xfce4/mousepad-svn/
<snip>
> One more change I'd like to propose: Replace tigervnc with remmina [3]
> Remmina supports VNC (outgoing and incoming!), XDMCP RDP, and SSH/SFTP,
> has a nice GTK interface and last but not least an Xfce panel applet. :)
> Remmina is currently under review [4] and I have already packaged
> remmina-xfce.
>
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That sounds like a great idea, I'm all for integration and an uniform
look of the desktop experience.
+1 from me.
Ok, review request at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=563001
-AdamM
Regards,
Christoph