Features/XfceSpin

Notes from Fedora Release Engineering meeting:

Test plan is woefully lacking information, as well as a cut/paste job from another feature. Links to QA tests would be good since you seem to indicate that there are some known.
Contingency plan should list all the places documentation about this spin should be removed in case we don't do it, so that we don't advertise a non-available spin.
User Experience should probably substitute "matches" with "rivals" unless it's intended that XFCE will look like gnome, instead of being integrated with itself like gnome
QA will update this page with thoughts.

Proposed applications changes

xfbib: Bibtex editor for Xfce
ristretto: the default image viewer of Xfce and should thus replace mirage
xfmpc: mpc client for Xfce, not sure if we really need it on the livecd
catfish: semi-official search tool of Xfce, frontend for find, locate and tracker.
- Pro: Easy to integrate into Thunar, Tracker is too overblown, works well (at least on i386)
- Con: Upstream development is stalled atm
asounder as cd ripping tool, light and fits to xfce

Better default keyboard theme: make multimedia actions like volume up/down work and include actions like print screen and print window via keyboard shortcuts by default.
Include two alternative keyboard themes for GNOME and Windows users.
gnome-screensaver instead of xscreensaver. While upstream prefers the latter we need gnome-screensaver for user switching. Won't pull in any additional packages on the livecd. Requires patching of the screensaver plugin in xfce-mcs-plugins.
Faster startup. Disable splash screen and apply the patch from http://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4312
Include a fedora splash for those who like splash screens.
Enhanced default panel config. Include places plugin and mailwatcher plugin. mailwatcher launches default mail-client
Prefer pavucontrol over xfce4-mixer (affects xfce4-panel)
Make sure claws-mail is the preferred mail-client on the livecd. Requires a small snipplet for ~/.config/xfce4/helpers.rc
Make sure all menu entries have proper icons (fixed in Rawhide)

--Cwickert 00:11, 27 August 2008 (UTC)