Xfld - maybe Xubuntu can borrow some things from there

[daniele favara]

On 1/18/06, Jani Monoses <jani.monoses at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 1/18/06, Oblio <apa_chioara at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Benedikt Meurer - the developer of Terminal and Thunar
> > from Xfce, is also the developer of a Xfce based Live
> > CD - Xfld. I haven't gotten to testing it yet, my
> > download is kind of lagging :), but he seems to have
> > some nice apps over there.
> >
>
> Old news :)
> I haven't tried xfld either but for Hoary we actually used Benedikt's
> debian 4.2 packages as debian was still at 4.0. Some of them are still
> with us because they are not in debian  yet or the versioning mismatch makes
> our
> packages newer even if they are techincally the same. They are mostly
> goodies (ex: notes, clipman plugin)
> but the xfdesktiop package is the one from xfld, it is neither the official
> 4.2 or 4.4 xfdesktop.
>
> Having a network config app is interesting if someone knows more please
> share the info :)

xfld has one ... as an xfld-welcome that i think could be nice to use
with xubuntu, it's even easy to customize.

the xfld netconfig stuff hasn't the pppoeconf feature ... that i think
should be integrated ..


PS: jani again ... i'm sorry :)