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

[Adam Miller]

On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 11:28 AM, Christoph Wickert
<christoph.wickert at 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 :)

<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

>     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

<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.
>
<snip>

That sounds like a great idea, I'm all for integration and an uniform
look of the desktop experience.

+1 from me.



-AdamM

-- 
http://maxamillion.googlepages.com
---------------------------------------------------------
()  ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail
/\  www.asciiribbon.org   - against proprietary attachments