Hello<br>
<br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/4/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">David Cahill</b> <<a href="mailto:cahilld@fastmail.fm">cahilld@fastmail.fm</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
G'day,<br><br>First, good luck with your venture. I'll do some testing for you when<br>release time comes.</blockquote><div>Thank you for the wishes.<br>
You can start testing now if you wish by using latest breezy and the xubuntu-desktop package. <br>
</div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I have a couple of questions though...<br><br>* Are you planning on elimating all gnome dependencies? Bonobo and
<br>gconf, for example, are fairly pervasive.</blockquote><div><br>
yes that is the goal, and so far all apps depended on by xubuntu-desktop are free of gnome dependencies.<br>
</div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">* Are you planning for a volume manager? If so, ivman is worth a look. I<br>have in the past used ivman with xfce4 and IIRC all was spiffy. I think
<br>it is mentioned in the ubuntu-lite doc as well.</blockquote><div><br>
How does it compare to pmount? I haven't used either - I know pmount is
used by ubuntu but it is not clear to me where it comes into play with
all the hal/dbus/gnome-volume-manager stack . If there's a relatvely
lightweight way of popping up a window when there's new media inserted
it would be very nice. I think we can do that now by enabling gnome
services on xfce startup but than that means gnome dependencies.<br>
It would be nice if someone could provide more info on this topic.<br>
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</div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">And a suggestion:<br><br>Keep an eye on the thunar file manager being written for xfce4 as a
</blockquote><div><br>
yes we know about thunar, but for now we are based on the stable
xfce4 branch. For the next Xubuntu (if there'll be one ;) we may
already use xfce4.4 & related software.<br>
</div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">And sorry to jump around, but I was thinking of possible pdf viewers.<br>Given the depencies of gpdf and evince, and the size (and nonfreeness??)
<br>of acrobat reader, is there any other choice than ugly xpdf?</blockquote><div> <br>
AFAIK there isn't one yet.<br>
</div></div>Jani<br>