Deferred Edgy Ideas for Feisty

[Gauvain Pocentek]

Cody Somerville wrote:
> Lets take a walk through
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Xubuntu/Specifications/Edgy/Ideas and see what we
> can take from there and implement in Feisty:
>
> New printer configuration (either adding this to xfprint or making
>> gnome-cups-manager gtk-only)
>
>
> Implemented in Edgy.

Not really, we don't have this tool, but the red-hat one.

>
>  Browse Windows network (Thunar)
>
>
> We might not be able to get something integrated with Thunar for 
> Feisty but
> we could include a stand-alone samba network browser. I hear there is 
> a nice
> python based one.
>

Xffm-samba is also a good candidate (available in universe).

>
> Floppy support (Thunar)
>
>
> I'm sure it wouldn't be hard to hack this into Thunar. <g>

Right... you should be careful before saying things like that.
And fill free to provide a patch upstream.

>
> sort out Audio/Video player situation (gxine looks better that xfmedia at
>> this point) (I would suggest seperate clients for audio and video: 
>> something
>> like Listen or Exaile for audio, and gxine/xine for video)
>
>
> Should we re-evaluate this again?

I don't think so. It's been discussed many times, everyone has a 
different opinion on this. We won't change the media player for each 
release. Plus Daniel has done a great effort with the debian maintainer 
on this, I don't want to see the time they spent on this wasted.
Gxine is an excellent candidate for xubuntu IMO.

>
> Menubar like in Gnome (Apps/Places/System) instead of simple menu
>> (Applications)
>
>
> This, however, is something we could easily do and an idea that I like.

No, it's not easy.

>
> All of Reducing duplication, reusing Ubuntu software
>
>
> Did you ever solve the CDBS issue? Any further efforts here?
>

I'm working on it, but having a cdbs multibuild class will not solve 
everything. Only a few apps have a --disable-gnome option, thanks to 
Jani for most of them.


Gauvain