Google Summer of Code, XFCE and the lack of a vision
XFCE was not accepted for the Google Summer of Code 2008. Should things have been different? And: how Thunar thinks I am idiot.
I happen to have found in the latest DWW an interesting comment by someone from France who is using the nick of Coffee: 82 • Google Summer of Code 2008: Xfce? Njet!
While I was hesitating between anger, disappointment, stupefaction and sadness, I took a look to XFCE's page of Google Summer of Code 2008 Ideas.
The disappointment was then total. Except for a single idea («Offer a D-Bus service for closing the session (log out, shut down, reboot, sleep, hibernate), and implement a way to tell the session manager to save the session on-demand without needing to quit Xfce (include this in the D-Bus service as well)»), all the other ideas look terribly uninteresting and lacking any vision!
A true bouillabaisse.
Now we can start wondering why XFCE was not regarded as a serious entity, no matter how popular the desktop environment is...
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