<blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote">An aspiring MOTU who uses xubuntu should package that first :)</blockquote><div> Alrighty, I've packaged it and it is currently in REVU awaiting approval. <blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote"><div style="direction: ltr;">> >       Browse Windows network (Thunar) > > > We might not be able to get something integrated with Thunar for Feisty > but we could include a stand-alone samba network browser. I hear there > is a nice python based one. > </div><div style="direction: ltr;">Benedikt Meurer (thunar upstream) said in a ml thread that he'd like to get this done for next xubuntu release but as usual no promises. fusesmb means using the command line, what we want is something like nautilus' behaviour. If that does not happen in a few months we may need to promote something from universe like the xffm or the python tool mentioned.</div></blockquote><div> We could also code some sort of plugin as a short-term solution. </div> <blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote"><div style="direction: ltr;">> >     Menubar like in Gnome (Apps/Places/System) instead of simple menu >     (Applications) > > > This, however, is something we could easily do and an idea that I like. </div>Not easily but we could do. I contemplated this both for dapper and edgy and what kept me back is is not the UI part which may be simple enough, but the fact that the xfce menu is not fully compatible with the gnome one (XDG menu spec) and getting that layout may need some new (incompatible?) features added to how the menu stores its entries. There's a new XDG compliant menh module in the works upstream planned for Xfce 4.6 which could be starting point for a new menu plugin but it's not ready yet.</blockquote><div> This is one of the most requested features. Maybe we could encourage upstream to give this item some attention? <blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote">App selection is a constant process, but it is also the most disorganized as some apps proposed do not meet the criteria at all. This is not the case with claws of course, but except from being proposed by its upstream developer and its obvious speed when compared to tbird there were not many voices in support of it. I am particularly concerned about bug count and maintenance in ubuntu. T-bird is maintained by someone else so we get it for free :)</blockquote><div> I hear that the Xubuntu ISO is very small. Maybe we should consider adding some extras to the toolchain such as a few games, etc.? </div> </div><blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote">On this matter Ubuntu Feisty is planning to get printerdrake (from mandriva, and with the help of Till Kamppeter) to replace the unmaintained gnome-cups-manager. I'll keep tracking system-config-printer from Fedora upstream but we may switch to printerdrake (gtk2 perl) if it is better and if Ubuntu switches too.</blockquote><div> Yeah, I think they're switching. </div>  </div> <div>On 12/2/06, Jani Monoses <<a href="mailto:jani.monoses@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"> jani.monoses@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> > If you follow the instructions at > <a href="http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread?t=304131" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread?t=304131 </a> > <<a href="http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread?t=304131" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"> http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread?t=304131</a>>, fusesmb works right > out of thunar - just like Nautlius' behaviour.  And very fast. It's exactly the need for those 9 steps that make it very unlike the nautilus experience :) > > The other alternative is <a href="http://pyNeighborhood.sourceforge.net" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">pyNeighborhood.sourceforge.net </a> > <<a href="http://pyneighborhood.sourceforge.net/" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://pyneighborhood.sourceforge.net/ </a>>, a Python app.  This also > allows browsing and mounting of CIFS shares. > An aspiring MOTU who uses xubuntu should package that first :) > If have written a couple of blog posts about this at > <a href="http://grumpymole.blogspot.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://grumpymole.blogspot.com</a> <<a href="http://grumpymole.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"> http://grumpymole.blogspot.com/</a>>.  It is > a popular topic among Xubuntu users. nice blog Jani -- xubuntu-devel mailing list <a href="mailto:xubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">xubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com </a> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel</a> </blockquote></div> -- Firefox (<a href="http://www.getfirefox.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"> www.getfirefox.com</a>) -- A browser you can trust