XFCE Usability Recommendations

[allen875]

Hi All, I have a couple of recommendations to add into the XFCE package set.

file-roller, instead of squeeze (squeeze doesn't know what a tar.gz is ?)
thunar-archive-plugin (right click compression and extraction)
xfce4-taskmanager (need one of these)
thunar-actions-plugin (custom actions on click, very handy)
thunar-volman (may not work for freebsd considering udev problem)
xfce4-notification-daemon (useful info)
xfce4-notifyd (see above)
xfce4-places-plugin (panel plugin that is useful)

Thanks.

[Beanpole]

Hi All, I have a couple of recommendations to add into the XFCE package set.

file-roller, instead of squeeze (squeeze doesn't know what a tar.gz is ?)

We already have a PBI available for file-roller, you will probably just want to use that instead. Squeeze is the default XFCE "archiver", so if you want changes made to it you will probably want to contact the XFCE developers.

xfce4-taskmanager (need one of these)

Added to the XFCE-Plugins system package for 9.1-RC2.

thunar-archive-plugin (right click compression and extraction)

Added to the main XFCE system package

thunar-actions-plugin (custom actions on click, very handy)
thunar-volman (may not work for freebsd considering udev problem)
xfce4-places-plugin (panel plugin that is useful)

I could not find FreeBSD ports for these three. Please post which ports you are referring to, or create FreeBSD port requests for them.

xfce4-notification-daemon (useful info)
xfce4-notifyd (see above)

These two are basically the same thing, but "notifyd" is the native XFCE version, and the "notification-daemon" is a port of the GNOME notifier. "notifyd" is already included in the main XFCE package, so I do not necessarily see the point to add the other one.

I found a number of other XFCE plugins that we were missing and added them as well, so now there should be a fair amount more available.

Thanks for the suggestions!

[allen875]

Thanks Ken, I couldn't find those plugin ports either. Guess they will come with time or maybe I should start reading the porters handbook