GnomeVFS dependencies

[Harold Aling]

On Mon, 27 Aug 2007 10:39:52 +0200, Jani Monoses <jani.monoses at gmail.com>
wrote:
> 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.

Just tried it on Xubuntu 7.04 and G-S-M indeed looks much better and more
useful than the Xfce4-taskmanager (IMHO).

Too bad it carries the 'Gn...' name ;)


-H-