Hello Julien & list, On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 11:24:03PM +0100, Julien Lavergne wrote: > Le 12/21/2011 02:00 PM, Klaus Knopper a écrit : > > Yesterday I received a mail pointing me to two locations with bugfixes > > and enhancements to lxpanel. > > > > http://pkgs.org/mandriva-2011/mandriva-main-testing-i586/lxpanel-0.5.8-4-mdv2011.0.i586.rpm.html#changelog > > http://code.google.com/p/lxpanelx/updates/list > > > > One of the bugs mentioned as fixed there was a freeze of lxpanel (caused > > by the taskbar plugin) when closing a LibreOffice window, which I can > > confirm. I consider this as a quite important fix and will update > > lxpanel in Knoppix with the patches. > > > > The reason I post this here is that I'm unsure if lxpanels authors are > > aware of these third party fixes and the "lxpanelx" fork, and maybe plan > > on merging anything from there into the mainstream distribution of lxde. > > > > lxpanel in Debian/unstable is still version 0.5.8 without the bugfixes. > > Thanks for bringing this to the mailing list. I was not aware of the > fork. Considering there is no current maintainer on lxpanel, all > development done on lxpanelx should be done directly on lxpanel.
Well, from the pure logic, it would make sense to rather focus attention and development on the package that still HAS a maintainer, wouldn't it? > About patches and fixes, the usual way is to post them to the lxde > bugtracker, and not to keep them in the distribution. I didn't see it, > but maybe it's already done ? If there is really _no_ maintainer for the original LXDE lxpanel, not much will happen if you post anything to the lxde bugtracker concerning the currently unmaintained lxpanel, other than many people are being frustrated because known bugs they experienced are not being fixed. But it's not helpful to just complain, and I won't. Someone has to step in as official maintainer sooner or later, or LXDE users/distributors will switch to a panel package that still works with LXDE, or maintain their own fork, collecting patches from different available resources, which is what I guess is happening right now, since most distros do have an lxpanel that is somewhat different from the original in a way that it, well, works, just with less bugs. ;-) Personally, I can live with a temporarily forked lxpanel for a while, until the maintainer problem is solved. Sorry, can't seriously volunteer as maintainer myself. Maybe PCMan comes up with a new generation of lxpanel with a fresh code base, and new features of lxpanelx are merged. Or the maintainer of lxpanelx, who I'm forwarding this mail, spontaneously volunteers to step in as official maintainer for lxpanel? :-) Regards -Klaus Knopper ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Write once. Port to many. Get the SDK and tools to simplify cross-platform app development. Create new or port existing apps to sell to consumers worldwide. Explore the Intel AppUpSM program developer opportunity. appdeveloper.intel.com/join http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-appdev _______________________________________________ Lxde-list mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lxde-list
