Meta-port for Goodies

2016-06-28 Thread Ben Woods
Hi everyone, I have submitted a diff to add a meta-port for XFCE Goodies for review here: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D6981 The basic goal of this port is to prevent people installing Xfce and then experiencing the following: - Discover they are missing some functionality - Google / Freshp

Members of xfce@ team

2016-06-28 Thread Ben Woods
Hi everyone, Quick question regarding the members of the xfce@ team. I am not sure how officially this is managed, so apologies if this sounds over the top. The FreeBSD Xfce wiki page shows a different list of people than the phabricator xfce group. https://wiki.freebsd.org/Xfce https://reviews.f

Re: Meta-port for Goodies

2016-06-29 Thread Ben Woods
On Wednesday, 29 June 2016, Olivier Duchateau wrote: > > Not yet review your changes. Personally I'm against (but I'm open with > good arguments, or wait the 4.14 release at least). FreeBSD is not a Linux > distro (this is recurring requets). > In the past, plugins were not well maintained (switch

Re: [CFT] x11/xfce4-dashboard 0.6.0

2016-08-29 Thread Ben Woods
On 22 May 2016 at 03:56, Olivier Duchateau wrote: > Hi, > > New release 0.6.0 of x11/xfce4-dashboard was published. But I noticed core > dump with Xfdashboard utility (not the settings manager) on 9.3-RELEASE > (with Radeon Xpress 200M), 10.3-RELEASE (with Vesa, this box needs to be > updated to

Re: Please include the battery plugin in "xfce" metaport

2016-10-14 Thread Ben Woods
On 15 October 2016 at 07:15, Michael Dexter wrote: > > To whom it may concern, > > Thank you for the quality XFCE 4 port. > > A humble request: Could you please include the xfce4-battery-plugin in the > 'xfce' metaport? I understand that it might not be used by all users but it > is very useful a

ConsoleKit2

2016-12-30 Thread Ben Woods
Hi Olivier / Koop, Just wanted to throw in my thoughts for landing ConsoleKit2 in FreeBSD ports, having read through PR 202269 and the Xfce devel repo: https://app.assembla.com/spaces/xfce4/subversion/source/HEAD/trunk/sysutils/consolekit/Makefile Given that this is a fork of the original Console

Committer offering to help Xfce team

2017-08-04 Thread Ben Woods
Hi FreeBSD Xfce team, I am a relatively new ports committer that uses Xfce as my main desktop environment. I have noticed there are a number of Xfce bugs and regular updates required. It appears to be a relatively high burden to keep Xfce up-to-date and functional on FreeBSD. The more hands, the

LightDM Theming

2020-01-20 Thread Ben Woods
Hi xfce@ I am thinking of adding theming to the x11/lightdm-gtk-greeter port, and wanted to discuss options. I wanted to add: - nice wallpaper with FreeBSD logo - Gtk theme - Numix - Icon theme - Elementary There seems to be a general concept with FreeBSD ports to stick to the vanilla defaults f