[Pkg-xfce-devel] Status of xfce4-goodies?

[shirish शिरीष]

Hi all,
Guess the question posted by Dave
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-xfce-devel/2013-February/016128.html
was probably badly written.

I guess his question (and also my question is) is there a chance we
would see xfce4-goodies in 4.10.1 or further ?

The xfce4-goodies metapackage had lots of goodies most of which are
gone if you are using the 4.10 release.

$ aptitude show xfce4-goodies
Package: xfce4-goodies
State: not installed
Version: 4.8.2
Priority: optional
Section: xfce
Maintainer: Debian Xfce Maintainers <pkg-xfce-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org>
Architecture: amd64
Uncompressed Size: 32.8 k
Depends: xfce4-artwork, xfce4-battery-plugin, xfce4-clipman-plugin,
xfce4-cpufreq-plugin, xfce4-cpugraph-plugin, xfce4-datetime-plugin,
xfce4-diskperf-plugin,
         xfce4-fsguard-plugin, xfce4-genmon-plugin,
xfce4-mailwatch-plugin, xfce4-mount-plugin, xfce4-netload-plugin,
xfce4-notes-plugin, xfce4-places-plugin,
         xfce4-quicklauncher-plugin, xfce4-sensors-plugin,
xfce4-smartbookmark-plugin, xfce4-systemload-plugin,
xfce4-timer-plugin, xfce4-verve-plugin,
         xfce4-wavelan-plugin, xfce4-weather-plugin, xfce4-xkb-plugin,
thunar-archive-plugin, thunar-media-tags-plugin, mousepad, ristretto,
squeeze, xfburn,
         xfce4-dict, xfce4-notifyd | notification-daemon | notify-osd,
xfce4-screenshooter, xfce4-taskmanager, xfce4-terminal, xfce4-volumed
Recommends: xfce4-power-manager
Suggests: xfce4-cellmodem-plugin, xfce4-linelight-plugin,
xfce4-messenger-plugin, xfce4-mpc-plugin, xfce4-radio-plugin,
xfce4-xfapplet-plugin,
          xfswitch-plugin, xfce4-hdaps, thunar-thumbnailers, gigolo,
parole, xfmpc
Description: enhancements for the Xfce4 Desktop Environment
 The "Goodies for Xfce" project includes additional software and
artwork that are related to the Xfce desktop, but not part of the
official release.

 This package will install the following Xfce4 related plugins:
 * Extra artwork (xfce4-artwork)
 * Battery levels monitor (xfce4-battery-plugin)
 * Clipboard history (xfce4-clipman-plugin)
 * CPU frequency management plugin (xfce4-cpufreq-plugin)
 * CPU utilisation graphs (xfce4-cpugraph-plugin)
 * Date and time plugin (xfce4-datetime-plugin)
 * Disk performance display (xfce4-diskperf-plugin)
 * Filesystem monitor (xfce4-fsguard-plugin)
 * Generic monitor, for displaying any command result (xfce4-genmon-plugin)
 * Mail watcher (xfce4-mailwatch-plugin)
 * Mount plugin (xfce4-mount-plugin)
 * Network load monitor (xfce4-netload-plugin)
 * Notes plugin (xfce4-notes-plugin)
 * Quick access to bookmarked folders, recent documents and removable
media (xfce4-places-plugin)
 * Tiny launchers (xfce4-quicklaunchers)
 * Sensors plugin, frontend to lm-sensors (xfce4-sensors-plugin)
 * Smartbookmarks plugin (xfce4-smartbookmark-plugin)
 * System load monitor (xfce4-systemload-plugin)
 * Timer plugin (xfce4-timer-plugin)
 * Command line with history (xfce4-verve-plugin)
 * Wireless lan monitor (xfce4-wavelan-plugin)
 * Weather monitor (xfce4-weather-plugin)
 * Keyboard configuration (xfce4-xkb-plugin)
 * Archive management for Thunar (thunar-archive-plugin)
 * Media tags editor for Thunar (thunar-media-tags-plugin)

 It'll install some standalone applications too:
 * Tiny text editor (mousepad)
 * Images viewer (ristretto)
 * Archive manager (squeeze)
 * CD/DVD burner (xfburn)
 * Frontend to dictionnaries (xfce4-dict)
 * Notification daemon (xfce4-notifyd)
 * Tool to take screenshots (xfce4-screenshooter)
 * Task manager (xfce4-taskmanager)
 * Terminal emulator (xfce4-terminal)

 Some packages are only suggested because they bring too much
dependencies, but you may find them interesting:
 * Cellular modem plugin (xfce4-cellmodem-plugin)
 * Search plugin, frontend to locate (xfce4-linelight-plugin)
 * DBus messaging plugin (xfce4-messenger-plugin)
 * Another commandline plugin (xfce4-minicmd-plugin)
 * Frontends to MPD (xfce4-mpc-plugin, xfmpc)
 * Radio plugin (xfce4-radio-plugin))
 * GNOME applet plugin (xfce4-xfapplet-plugin)
 * Fast-user switching plugin (xfswitch-plugin)
 * ThinkPads HDAPS plugin (xfce4-hdaps)
 * Additional thumbnailer for Thunar (thunar-thumbnailers)
 * GIO/GVfs frontend to manage connections to remote filesystems (gigolo)
 * Media player (parole)
 * Power Manager (xfce4-power-manager)

 This is a metapackage to ease upgrades, installations, and provide a
consistent upgrade path from previous versions. It can safely be
removed with no ill
 effects.
Homepage: http://goodies.xfce.org/

Tags: interface::x11, role::dummy, role::metapackage, suite::xfce,
uitoolkit::gtk, use::monitor, x11::applet


As can be seen it was there only till 4.8 version :-

$ apt-show-versions -a xfce4-goodies
Not installed
xfce4-goodies 4.6.1.1 stable   ftp.debian.org
xfce4-goodies 4.8.2   wheezy   ftp.debian.org
xfce4-goodies 4.8.2   unstable ftp.debian.org
No experimental version
xfce4-goodies not installed

Now I know some of the goodies are coming as one package at a time as
can be seen https://mail.xfce.org/mailman/listinfo/xfce-announce

If at sometime we could have also xfce4-goodies metapackage which is
of version 4.10 it would be convenient to all the users.

Till l8er.
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