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## 6.0.4 wishlist

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### Re: 6.0.4 wishlist

by mharrison » Fri Mar 25, 2011 11:49 am

> fsmithred wrote:I have this debate with myself every time I make a debian-live build. I usually end up with abiword and gnumeric, but I prefer to have the full office suite (OOo/Libre). Part of that is so I can open the pps files that people send me. There's an alternative for that, but it requires wine.
> There's a possibility that we'll end up with two builds - lean and bloat. I've been trying out some of the native xfce apps that I don't generally use, like ristretto for an image viewer and squeeze for an archiver, and so far, I still like gthumb and xarchiver better. I was experimenting with xfburn, and it seemed ok, but my dvd drive refuses to create any media with a proper md5sum, so I've given up on it. I'm also about out of media and see no point in buying more, since it's more expensive than hard drives.

XFburn is junk IMHO. The standard Debian install includes Brasero as well, and I don't think you end up with a ton of gnome dependencies when it is installed. I know some people like k3burn or whatever the KDE program is, but Brasero has always worked for me so I just keep using it.
As for Squeeze and Ristretto....I don't mind them...they do what I want and that is what is most important for me. First thing I do on XFCE is remove the goodies meta package and clear out some of the junk that I don't plan on using, BUT, that is just me...to some people what I am removing might be something they cannot live without on XFCE.

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### Re: 6.0.4 wishlist

by fsmithred » Fri Mar 25, 2011 1:22 pm

I like to install the base system and then add xfce. Done that way, the goodies package isn't included, and then I just install the pieces I want. Which xfce goodies do people use? Here's my list of everything installed with xfce in the name. In addition to this, there's squeeze and ristretto and probably something else. The mount plugin is there, but it never gets used.

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  `aptitude search ~ixfce
  i A gtk2-engines-xfce - A GTK+-2.0 theme engine for Xfce
  i A libxfce4menu-0.1-0 - freedesktop.org compliant menu implementat
  i A libxfce4util-bin - tools for libxfce4util
  i A libxfce4util-common - common files for libxfce4util
  i A libxfce4util4 - Utility functions library for Xfce4
  i A libxfcegui4-4 - Basic GUI C functions for Xfce4
  i A xfce-keyboard-shortcuts - xfce keyboard shortcuts configuration
  i xfce4 - Meta-package for the Xfce Lightweight Desk
  i A xfce4-appfinder - Application finder for the Xfce4 Desktop E
  i xfce4-battery-plugin - battery monitor plugin for the Xfce4 panel
  i xfce4-cpugraph-plugin - CPU load graph plugin for the Xfce4 panel
  i A xfce4-mixer - Xfce mixer application
  i xfce4-mount-plugin - mount plugin for the Xfce4 panel
  i xfce4-netload-plugin - network load monitor plugin for the Xfce4
  i A xfce4-panel - The Xfce4 desktop environment panel
  i xfce4-screenshooter - screenshots utility for Xfce
  i A xfce4-session - Xfce4 Session Manager
  i A xfce4-settings - graphical application for managing Xfce se
  i xfce4-terminal - Xfce terminal emulator
  i A xfce4-utils - Various tools for Xfce`

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### Re: 6.0.4 wishlist

by mharrison » Fri Mar 25, 2011 1:25 pm

I'm gonna play opposite today and here is what I DON'T use out of the goodies meta package:

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  `xfce4-cpufreq-plugin
  xfce4-notes-plugin
  xfce4-datetime-plugin
  xfce4-timer-plugin
  xfce4-fsguard-plugin
  xfce4-netload-plugin
  xfce4-sensors-plugin
  xfce4-places-plugin
  libtagc0
  xfce4-diskperf-plugin
  xfce4-xkb-plugin
  xfce4-genmon-plugin
  xfce4-cpugraph-plugin
  xfce4-weather-plugin
  thunar-media-tags-plugin
  xfce4-systemload-plugin
  xfce4-wavelan-plugin
  xfce4-notes
  xfce4-battery-plugin - I DO use it on my laptop though
  xfce4-mount-plugin
  xfce4-artwork
  xfce4-smartbookmark-plugin
  xfce4-clipman-plugin
  xfburn
  xfce4-quicklauncher-plugin
  xfce4-mailwatch-plugin
  xfce4-verve-plugin
  xfce4-clipman`

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### Re: 6.0.4 wishlist

by meandean » Mon Mar 28, 2011 9:18 pm

waiting on 6.0.5
whats the holdup....sheesh....

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### Re: 6.0.4 wishlist

by fsmithred » Mon Mar 28, 2011 10:39 pm

I can't decide whether to call it 6.0.4 or maybe 6.1.x for the xfce series, and then if there are more gnome versions, keep the second digit even, so it would jump to 6.2.x, or maybe add letters after the numbers...
Ideas are still crystallizing. The next version might have to be two versions. We'll see.

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### Re: 6.0.4 wishlist

by ulfi » Tue Mar 29, 2011 10:40 pm

> fsmithred wrote:I can't decide whether to call it 6.0.4 or maybe 6.1.x for the xfce series, and then if there are more gnome versions, keep the second digit even, so it would jump to 6.2.x, or maybe add letters after the numbers...
> Ideas are still crystallizing. The next version might have to be two versions. We'll see.

So I await with bated breath...on this rollercoaster called Refracta..

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