xfce4-panel 4.7.x upload(ed) in natty [DONE]

[Charlie Kravetz]

On Sun, 12 Dec 2010 14:38:23 +0100
Lionel Le Folgoc <mrpouit at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Dec 04, 2010 at 04:26:42PM +0100, Lionel Le Folgoc wrote:
> > Hi there,
> > 
> > I'm going to upload xfce4-panel 4.7.5 in natty (well, it will probably
> > be already uploaded when you read this mail ;).
> > 
> > […]
> > 
> 
> Hi again,
> 
> I just rebuilt the last panel plugin working with xfce4-panel 4.7. Daily
> images should be back tomorrow. It should now be "safe" again to
> dist-upgrade in natty, and report bugs. ;)
> 
> However, I couldn't upload some plugins, because they won't work with
> Xfce 4.8:
>  * xfce4-cddrive-plugin: it relies on the exo-mount executable, removed
>    from exo 0.5;
>  * xfce4-places-plugin: same, relies on exo-mount and thunar-vfs;
>  * xfce4-volstatus-icon: relies on exo-mount, thunar-vfs, and the
>    exo-hal-0.3 library, also dropped with exo 0.5.
> 
> The first one can probably work by replacing exo-mount with pmount (I
> didn't check). The other ones need to be ported to GIO to work with Xfce
> 4.8, because one can't unmount with thunar-vfs/hal a volume mounted with
> gio. Upstream developers don't have enough time currently, so anyone is
> free to provide a patch. :P
> 
> I dropped yesterday xfce4-places-plugin from the default install until a
> solution is found.
> 
> I'll remove these 3 plugins from natty on February 24th (Feature
> Freeze[1]) if they haven't been ported at that time (this should give
> enough time to people willing to "save" these plugins to work on them
> ;).
> 
> Best,
> Lionel
> 
> [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FeatureFreeze
> 

Thank you for all this work. 

There is an application available that could replaces "-places-plugin"
called, appropriately enough, Thunar File Manager. Adding this to the
panel as a launcher allows access directly to thunar, with shortcuts on
the left. It doesn't allow complete functionality of Places, but it
works quite well.

Python still has the daily images broken for us, as of 2010-12-12.
Alternate images have been building, but even Ubuntu Desktop images are
on hold for python 2.7. Even though the alternate images are building,
they fail to install for Python 2.7 errors.

-- 
Charlie Kravetz 
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