GnomeVFS dependencies

[Jani Monoses]

Vincent wrote:
> 
> 
> On 03/08/07, *Jani Monoses* <jani.monoses at gmail.com 
> <mailto:jani.monoses at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Hello,
> 
>     looks like quite a few GNOME programs use GnomeVFS but not the rest
>     of GNOME libs like bonobo, libgnomeui, libgnome.
> 
>     For instance evince-gtk is no longer our patched version but an upstream
>     variant that left GVfs deps.
> 
>     I am considering allowing GNOME apps that depend on GVfs only into
>     the default
>     xubuntu install. It would allow us to reuse more of GNOME/Ubuntu and
>     not divert
>     our efforts on maintaining separate apps.
> 
>     What about adding gnome-nettool (GTK only) and gnome-system-monitor
>     (uses GtkMM and
>     GnomeVFS) to Xubuntu? The latter would replace xfce4-taskmanager and
>     could be used
>     instead of a few unmaintained panel plugins.
> 
> 
> I'd love the inclusion of gnome-system-monitor (would also finally give 
> a way to easily view your current Xubuntu version graphically, very 
> useful when helping newbies) as xfce4-taskmanager is kinda limited IMHO. 
> gnome-nettool, however, looks kind of specialist to me, what exactly is 
> it used for?
> 

I've just added gnome-system-monitor instead of xfce4-taskmanager in the seeds.
It will take effect at the next xubuntu-meta upload.
I am not sure about gnome-nettool. It looks useful for those who do not know the
command-line tools that query various network aspects, but maybe those users do not
really need the info traceroute, whois, netstat can give.

Jani

Jani

Jani