[Pkg-ROX-devel] First ideas

[Dan Chen]

--- "Francesco P. Lovergine" <frankie@debian.org>
wrote:
> My basic idea is packaing ASAP rox-session and
> rox-filer in a decent
> way for debian. I'm currently adding both pkgs to
> Marcin's version
> and adding dpatch support for modifications.

This should be the main focus, I feel. First
ROX-Filer, then ROX-Session. ROX-Filer is the heart.

> We should also add
> 
> librox2
> librox-dev
> 
> for C library in the same source. 

Do you mean just those two binary packages from one
source, or do you mean to include those two binary
packages buildable from the source for ROX-Filer?
Probably the former, since the latter doesn't make
much sense?

> shared-mime-info is ok and already up-to-date in
> sid.

Sounds good. I've been using it here with no problems.

> We should decide is 2.0.1 is good enough for sarge
> or we need
> to go with 2.1 which is the development series and
> probably (?)
> not adequate for stable.

As much as it pains me to say this, 2.0.1 should be
our target. 2.1.2 is a bit unstable on this machine,
but it does have - among other enhancements - support
for the new FreeDesktop MIME icon format.

Speaking of which, we should - if we pursue ROX-Filer
2.1.2 as target - look to package the new
Industrial[0] and Gorilla[1] themes. Note: I have not
yet checked to see if these are the exact same as ones
in one of the GNOME theme packages.

> We have very tight times for sarge: release will be
> probably
> in mid september and there will be a general
> packages freeze
> soon. If we will not be able to release in
> accordance to
> sarge roadmap, there are chances to have an
> unofficial 
> archive for sarge and a standard development cycle
> in sid.

ROX-Filer is in good shape already. ROX-Session may
take a bit more work...

> rox-session needs to be in good shape to be usable
> with
> gdm/kdm/xdm and other session manager.

Right. Currently I use kdm's "default" selection
because ROX-Session is called from my ~/.xsession.

> Additional applications (Pager & friends) could be
> packaged in different source(s). 
> What are the priorities?

Agreed (RE: Pager, MusicBox, etc.).

We should work on ROX-Filer and ROX-Session first for
sure.

Thanks,
-Daniel

[0] http://www.themedepot.org/itemdetail.php4?id=1144
[1] http://www.themedepot.org/itemdetail.php4?id=1133


		
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