Dear All,
I would like to announce a cleanup / changes in the Xfce Pattern for
Tumbleweed and the upcoming Leap 15.1 release.  Leap 15.1 release is
an important one for openSUSE-Xfce  because it will have a new look
(already set in Tumbleweed), will have updated software such as Thunar
1.8, and many bug fixes. Therefore it is a good opportunity to make
the default Xfce installation lean and mean:

- remove gnome-games (no real purpose having it installed by default)
- remove pidgin (except for IRC, the protocols supported are no longer
very popular. Users today mostly use Matrix, Telegram, Discord  which
are not properly supported by Pidgin).
- remove sound-juicer (not necessary as default. Modern Laptops don't
even have a CD/DVD drive anymore)
- remove google-droid-fonts (redundant dependency already recommended
by patterns-fonts-fonts_opt)
- midori-branding-openSUSE (obsolete)
- removed moonlight-plugin (obsolete)
- add blueberry  (simple bluetooth management applet that sits in the systray)
- add hexchat  (many conversations/meetings for openSUSE development
happen in IRC so a good client by default is important)

Please note that removing software from the Xfce Pattern doesn't mean
that it will no longer be available. The packages will still be in the
official repos for users to install directly.

Have fun :-)

Maurizio Galli (MauG)
Xfce Team
https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Xfce
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