request: xfce4-datetime-plugin

[Todd And Margo Chester]

On 08/24/2011 02:10 PM, Jonathan Hazell wrote:
> Christoph Wickert<christoph.wickert at ...>  writes:
>
>> Am Montag, den 01.08.2011, 18:08 -0700 schrieb Todd And Margo Chester:
>>> On 07/23/2011 03:35 AM, Christoph Wickert wrote:
>>>> Am Freitag, den 22.07.2011, 18:04 -0700 schrieb Todd And Margo Chester:
>>>>> Hi Guys,
>>>>>
>>>>> I really, really need my calendar plugin.  Would you consider adding it
>>>>> to the el6 xfce repo?
>>>>>
>>>>> http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/panel-plugins/xfce4-datetime-plugin
>>>>>
>>>> For EL6 we only provide plugins with an active upstream and a certain
>>>> amount of stability. The datetime plugin seems unmaintained, the last
>>>> release was 2 years ago and we had to patch it for Xfce 4.8. On the
>>>> other hand it works reliably, so we could consider it.
>>>>
>>>> Orion, any thoughts on this?
>>> Did you guys go for this one?  If so, do you have a time frame
>>> on it?
>> Orion is maintaining the EL packages and AFAIK he has not yet decided
>> whether he wants to maintain the datetime plugin or not.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Christoph
>>
> Sorry to bump an old thread,

No apology needed.  I very much appreciate it!
>
> I installed the fedora package that was built for xfce 4.8 and its seems to work
> fine.
>
> http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idpl/15929954/dir/fedora_15/com/xfce4-datetime-plugin-0.6.1-7.fc15.x86_64.rpm.html
>
> Good luck!
>
> Jonathan
>
I installed the above into SL6.0 X64.  Works perfectly.  Thank you!

Guys,

   The SRPM for the above should be extremely easy to port to SL6.
Would you please consider it?  This is a plugin that is hard to live 
without.

Many thanks,
-T