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

[Christoph Wickert]

Am Montag, den 15.02.2010, 21:28 -0700 schrieb Kevin Fenzi: 
> On Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:28:12 +0100
> Christoph Wickert <christoph.wickert at googlemail.com> wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> I like the new mousepad, so if we think it can get translations before
> release time perhaps we could go for that instead of leafpad?

+1, I think we should avoid switching to leafpad if possible because of
the changes in other xfce components such as the panel. 

> > 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].
> 
> I would say to stick with gdm for this cycle for now, and re-evaluate
> next time.

+1 

> > 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.
> 
> Yep. I am fine with that. Works great here. ;)

Fine! xfce4-remmina-plugin is already reviewed, I'm waiting for remmina.

> kevin

Regards,
Christoph