well .. that's why i'm saying to split it :)
it is too much trouble right now. if upstream or debian packagers split it fine, but we should not
spend time on this.
> on my todo list for a while, but not at the top :)
can we help you on that ? ... i mean you TODO list, maybe with some
help you can go faster.
well the TODO list is roughly what is written down in the dapper progress wiki page.
One good candidate from there which requires deb packaging skills is the gnumeric-gtk
issue. The debian maintainer of gnumeric said he's willing to take pacthes to build a gtk-only
version from the same source package.
Since gnumeric depends on libgoffice that package has to be modified too. Both these have --disable-gnome
switches from upstream so it is just a matter of packaging, but not trivial as the rules files are a bit complicated
and the relation of the gtk-only vs gnome enabled version of these packages needs to be figured out. Whether
they can be installed along eachoter or not, and if the former how to name the libraries. Messy stuff.
If we cannot solve this, then gnumeric will not be part of xubuntu-desktop but probably shipped on the CD
along with gnome libraries.
Other help still packaging related is splitting python-gnome2 to be more fine grained like the ruby bindings are. Right now if you need gnomevanvas bindings (used by hwdb-client.py) it will still bring in all gnome libs instead of just libgnomecanvas.
But this work would mean convincing Sebastien Bacher (seb128 - the ubuntu gnome packager) and things which need convincing people always end up at the bottom of my todo list as they incur a lot of waiting and sometimes needless arguments. But feel free to try ;)
the core xfce is settled.
I also intended to register under the xfce project in launchpad all the xfce packages as products, so far only thunar is added.
This would mostly benefit rosetta translations and possibly bzr imports, but upstream is not too enthusiastic about using rosetta so again this is not a priority right now, as it is a bit tedious.
i was waitin that ChipX86 released the new version , notify-daemon was
not really a good app as it was notification-deamon. now
notification-daemon 0.3.2 is out and is really cool, something has
been changed in the spec so i fixed that ... mainly it just works, but
it still needs some tests for the rules parser. i'll write some docs
about it as soon as those tests are over. Then i'll begin to code the
frontend to configure it, maybe importing modules from
hal-device-manager ... if they'll remove gnome deps .. if not i'll
write something similar :).
the thing that worries me here that it is new code and I don't see what it fixes that cannot be done now
with ivman or by fixing ivman. It may be a better choice for dapper+1 but right now I wouldn't want to risk.
what about xfce-galago ? ... i think it could improve the usability,
there is a plugin for gaim that uses gnome-galago ... maybe it will
not be used in dapper but for next release i'm pretty sure we'll see
it in the ubuntu roadmap.
Jani
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