Spins Freeze tomorrow, are we happy with the application selection?

[Christoph Wickert]

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).

> and
> I wanted to take a moment to make sure we are all happy with the
> current application selection and general current state of the Xfce
> Spin.

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
     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.

There has been some progress with LXDM recently: It now supports
plymouth, custom themes [1], Xauth, but not yet gnome-keyring. And there
are still probems with selinux [2].

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.

>  Once the freeze happens I will be putting together a QA plan for
> a Xfce Spin Test Day based on the application layout (and other
> modifications) for the F13 Xfce Spin. Just wanted to see what peoples
> thoughts were on this topic.

Great! 
For now I suggest to only drop gftp and totem, the rest is up to further
discussion.

> -AdamM

Regards,
Christoph

[1] http://blog.lxde.org/?p=595
[2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=552885
[3] http://remmina.sourceforge.net/
[4] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=553402