[opensuse-gnome] Possible Packages to Drop (or move to GNOME:Community)
As I read through maw's excellent worksheet yesterday, I found some
packages of questionable value to the main distro so I thought I'd
propose some actions for those. Please let me know of any feedback.
Need volunteers for the testing section, speak up its easy to do!
Needs testing for review:
gaim-galago (does it work with pidgin?)
gnome-netstatus (does it work with NetworkManager at all?)
Move to GNOME:Community:
conglomerate (no new releases in 2.5 years, not installed by default)
gnomeicu/icu (is this widely used given we have pidgin?)
fyre (not installed by default)
gqview (yet another image viewer)
libghttp (nothing depends on this library)
Drop entirely:
glade (obsoleted by glade3)
gnopericus (obsoleted by orca?)
metacity-themes (not sure this was ever used except internally)
libgnomeservice (nothing depends on this library)
-JP
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JP Rosevear
On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 09:09 -0500, JP Rosevear wrote:
As I read through maw's excellent worksheet yesterday, I found some packages of questionable value to the main distro so I thought I'd propose some actions for those. Please let me know of any feedback. Need volunteers for the testing section, speak up its easy to do! Move to GNOME:Community: ... gqview (yet another image viewer)
This is my favourite application for image viewing, please, don't move it to GNOME:Community. I'm sure I'm not the only one who likes that application :) Cheers! -- Igor Jagec
On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 09:09 -0500, JP Rosevear wrote:
As I read through maw's excellent worksheet yesterday, I found some packages of questionable value to the main distro so I thought I'd propose some actions for those. Please let me know of any feedback. Need volunteers for the testing section, speak up its easy to do!
Needs testing for review: gaim-galago (does it work with pidgin?) gnome-netstatus (does it work with NetworkManager at all?)
Move to GNOME:Community: conglomerate (no new releases in 2.5 years, not installed by default) gnomeicu/icu (is this widely used given we have pidgin?) fyre (not installed by default) gqview (yet another image viewer) libghttp (nothing depends on this library)
Drop entirely: glade (obsoleted by glade3) gnopericus (obsoleted by orca?) metacity-themes (not sure this was ever used except internally) libgnomeservice (nothing depends on this library)
-JP
I'm not entirely sure if gnopernicus is not widely used, but if I were a betting man (and I am), I would say it is safe to drop it as well. Orca is heavily developed and has lots of tight integration with other products, including the upcoming FireFox 3.0. (They've been testing against nightly builds of FF daily and Orca users are raving about what FF can do for them now.) It is my advice that we advise our users to use Orca, as it simplifies our AT infrastructure, in my opinion. Bryen -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+help@opensuse.org
On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 09:09 -0500, JP Rosevear wrote:
As I read through maw's excellent worksheet yesterday, I found some packages of questionable value to the main distro so I thought I'd propose some actions for those. Please let me know of any feedback. Need volunteers for the testing section, speak up its easy to do!
Needs testing for review: gaim-galago (does it work with pidgin?) gnome-netstatus (does it work with NetworkManager at all?)
Move to GNOME:Community: conglomerate (no new releases in 2.5 years, not installed by default) gnomeicu/icu (is this widely used given we have pidgin?) fyre (not installed by default) gqview (yet another image viewer) libghttp (nothing depends on this library)
Drop entirely: glade (obsoleted by glade3) gnopericus (obsoleted by orca?)
yes, orca obsoletes gnopernicus
metacity-themes (not sure this was ever used except internally) libgnomeservice (nothing depends on this library)
this was part of the gnome-session rewrite, but it never got used at
all, not even upstream, where the SVN repo has seen no commits in a long
time, so this can be safely dropped
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Rodrigo Moya
On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 09:09 -0500, JP Rosevear wrote:
Drop entirely: glade (obsoleted by glade3)
AFAIK Glade-3 still does not replace all that Glade-2 has to offer. I forgot what the details are exactly, but there where complaints about that on #gnome-hackers. Hub -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+help@opensuse.org
* Igor Jagec
This is my favourite application for image viewing, please, don't move it to GNOME:Community. I'm sure I'm not the only one who likes that application :)
me 2 :^) -- Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA HOG # US1244711 http://wahoo.no-ip.org Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://counter.li.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+help@opensuse.org
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