SIGs/Xfce/XfceLive

Fedora Xfce Spin

This is an area to brainstorm progress of the Xfce spin of Fedora based on contributions from Xfce package maintainers, translators in Fedora and end users.

Kickstart

• http://git.fedoraproject.org/git/?p=spin-kickstarts.git;a=blob_plain;f=fedora-livecd-xfce.ks;hb=HEADy

Fedora 8 Release Announcement

• https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2008-February/msg00005.html

TO DO

• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=433150 - Include buttons for suspend, hibernate and switch user
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=433838 - Fedora icon in desktop menu (needs changes in fedora-logos package)
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=427814 - s-c-d dep on metacity
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=427812 - desktop backgrounds split
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=427834 - NM-gnome dep bloat
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=433163 - Firefox language pack separation
• Should we disable Xfce tips on live cd or post installation?
  • I think perhaps it would be better to make some more usefull tips and still include it. Its easy to disable - KevinFenzi
  • For tips and tricks, how about re-vamping them to include things that are usefull? We could put: http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f7/en_US/sn-PackageNotes.html#id3181196 and possible some fedora related things like how to get help, or pointers to the docs, etc? I agree the current tips are not very usefull. - RahulSundaram
  • +1, ether disable the tips or display something useful - ChristophWickert
• Enable Xfwm compositing by default?
  • -1, still to buggy for me. E.g. sometimes you it cannot be turned of and still is active on the next logon - ChristophWickert
  • -1, yeah, I agree... I don't use it here on any machines. - KevinFenzi

Solved issues

• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=351531 - Review Request: ristretto - Image-viewer for the Xfce desktop environment (closed)
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=433152 - Default look and feel (fixed in Rawhide)
• Default Xfce theme and background should be consistent with Fedora branding. Fixed in Rawhide.
• Drop Xfce Icon theme and use Fedora default. Thunar and xfce4-panel are affected. Fixed in Rawhide.
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=433573 - Mixer and trash applets in the default panel (closed)
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=443310 - Review Request: xfwm4-theme-nodoka (closed)
• Disable tracker while running as live cd and enable it post installation. The setting EnableIndexing must be set to false in /home/fedora/.config/tracker/tracker.cfg.

Rejected Ideas

• Xfce Notification daemon - http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/applications/notification-daemon-xfce. We could say "Welcome to Fedora".
  • -1. This project is nearly dead upstream, see http://foo-projects.org/pipermail/xfce4-dev/2007-May/023096.html. Also it explicitly conflicts with gnomes notification-daemon. ATM we cant better use that, all the gnome stuff is pulled in anyway ;( If we really want to show a welcome message, we could do this with xfce4-tips - ChristophWickert

Fedora's Xfce SIG

The Xfce SIG (Special Interest Group) is a group of Fedora Xfce package maintainers , translators, artists and many others who contribute towards improve Xfce in Fedora.

Credit

The kickstart file is based on the one from Christoph Wickert and input from Xfce maintainer, Kevin Fenzi and several other Xfce contributors and users.

User switching

Should we include fast user switching? ATM the only possibility is to use fast-user-switcher-applet inside of xfce4-xfapplet-plugin, but this will pull in gnome-panel (I removed the dependency on gnome-applets in Rawhide recently). Another approach is to hack xfce4-session as Xubuntu does (as see at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=433150). - ChristophWickert

References

• http://svn.xfce.org/svn/xfce/xfdesktop/branches/xfce_4_4/README

For any comparisons:

• http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Development/Ideas/Xfce/Xfce_packages_list
• http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-core-dev/ubuntu-seeds/xubuntu.hardy/changes